Can no-code/low-code tools replace developers?

Low code platforms are making the lives of the developers easier and how? Can no-code/low-code (NCLC) platforms replace developers? Rather they may fall in love with it! NCLC platforms have the ability to eliminate the repetitive and boring aspects of development and in place extend the opportunity of working

Announcing ToolJet 1.0 - separating the platform from the product

We launched the public beta of ToolJet in June 2021. Today, we are excited to release the ToolJet 1.0. What were we waiting for? A lot of users are using ToolJet on production environments since August and the platform did not show any stability or scalability issues. We were

How to build and maintain welcoming open-source communities

Open-source projects thrive upon the solid foundation that open source communities offer. However, there are zillions of open source communities and building and maintaining one is no magic but calibrated efforts of the maintainers who do not shy away from following certain best practices. How do we stand out? Are

Build GitHub star history tracker in 10 minutes using low-code

In this tutorial, we’re going to build an app that can be used to track the stars count of public GitHub repositories over time. Overview If you’re a developer who owns/maintains a project on GitHub and wants to track the growth of GitHub stars of your repository

The rise of open-source challengers - popular products and their OSS alternatives

In recent years, we have seen a rise in open-source alternatives for popular closed source software. Companies such as AirByte, PostHog, n8n, Supabase, Sentry is adopted by thousands of companies and have raised millions in VC funding. These companies build and maintain products that are open-source alternatives to products like

Build your own personal job application tracker in 10 minutes

In this tutorial, you'll learn to build an app that will let you manage all your job applications right from your own personal dashboard. In this tutorial, we will be building a CRUD app that will let you create, read, update, and delete the data from the datasource (here Google

The rise of open-source in the pandemic economy

Enterprises are now keen to make a shift to open-source software solutions and especially so since 2020. Open-source software supports organizations with the growing market demands of making things happen quickly while never compromising on the quality front. Come the pandemic and these enterprises felt the challenges posed to not

12 ways to get more GitHub stars for your open-source project

The steps that we took to grow from 0 to 4,500 stars on GitHub within a few months.

From open source to enterprise open source : What’s in store for us this new year?

Open Source has been evolving over the last two decades and is now an integral component of the contemporary IT landscape. If you’re into the development of software and applications you may have inevitably come across the debate that talks of open-source vs enterprise open-source. However, when we look

Why and how we raised VC funding for an open-source project

The open-source movement gave us many of the software such as operating systems, browsers and databases. They hold a prominent place in the world that we are living in today. The internal projects of large companies such as Kubernetes, React, Angular and Tensorflow that was later open-sourced have become industry

In the era of ‘digital’ how low-code platforms are bringing in the transformation?

Are you facing the lack of digital agility required to efficiently meet the pace of business transformation? Are you reliant on code-heavy platforms, manual systems and siloed data? You know you may need to transform at this point however it may require a heavy financial burden upon the organization. And

Building an AWS S3 file explorer app within 30 minutes.

The most recent version of this tutorial can be found at this link. You're currently viewing an older version that utilizes Tooljet 0.10.0. In this article, you'll learn how to build an explorer app that lets you view existing files and upload new files to your AWS S3

How can internal tools increase the efficiency of your everyday workflows?

With the onset of a "new normal" in the pandemic world that we are living in, the digital demand has been skyrocketing. The chances are that we are spending more time & effort on internal tooling within our organization. These internal tools are pieces of software that can be either built

Build a WhatsApp CRM app with low-code

In this article, you’ll learn how to create an app that lets you send WhatsApp messages to the contacts stored in a Google Sheet. What is a CRM? A CRM app is designed to gather all the customer information in the central place to provide a 360º view of

Understanding the low-code vs no-code debate

Most of us, at times, are unable to understand or differentiate between low-code & no-code. At times some of the users describe them in a similar way. Does this matter? What are the real differences between them and how can they be used independently? Both the low-code & no-code principles of application

How to build a cryptocurrency dashboard in 10 minutes

In this tutorial, we will walk you through building a cryptocurrency dashboard in less than 10 minutes, using the ToolJet platform. ToolJet is a free, open-source, low-code platform that allows you to quickly build tools(https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet). Here is the final application that you would have at

Recap of ToolJet's first Hacktoberfest (2021)

What is Hacktoberfest and why we participated Hacktoberfest is a one-month event that encourages developers to contribute to the open-source projects that they love. Hacktoberfest is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get involved in the community. In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you

Hacktoberfest 2021

Hacktoberfest is a one-month event that encourages developers to contribute to the open-source projects that they love. At ToolJet, we are a very small team of developers, we built and launched ToolJet on Github 3 months ago. We now have more than 3500 stars on Github, thanks to the community.

Why we are changing ToolJet to the AGPL license

TLDR; We are changing our license from GPL V3 to AGPL V3. ( diff) For users, nothing will change. ToolJet is an open-source platform for building and deploying react-based internal applications. We launched ToolJet three months ago, we've gained some popularity over these months and we started thinking about the licensing.

Why you should use low-code tools to build internal applications

Low-code accelerates the speed of the software development process by reducing the need for writing code. Low-code is a modern approach that makes use of visual development that automates and abstracts the steps required for application development. Low-code platforms come with a drag-and-drop interface for building applications and provide ways

We migrated the ToolJet server from Ruby to Node.js

In recent, JavaScript has become the common language for both backend and frontend applications. The complete thought process behind porting the ToolJet server from Ruby to Node.js is explained in our blog post. It took us more than 3 weeks to port the server completely to Node.js. We

Engineering

Clearing tables before each test - NestJS, typeORM & Postgres

We recently migrated ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to NestJS. We had to make some changes to clear the tables before running every test. Why should we clean databases before running every tests? Let's say we are testing the endpoint to archive a user, we will create a new

Engineering

Deploying a NestJS application with PostgreSQL database and react frontend on Heroku

Recently, we ported the ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to NestJS, ToolJet can be deployed to Heroku using the one-click deployment feature of Heroku. ToolJet server is built using Nest.js with TypeORM as the ORM and PostgreSQL as the database. This article will explain how to deploy a

Engineering

Migrating ToolJet server from Ruby on Rails to Node.js

We finally decided to rewrite ToolJet server using TypeScript! ToolJet has two main components, the client and the server. ToolJet client is a ReactJS application and ToolJet server is a Ruby on Rails API-only application. Whenever a new application is built using ToolJet, the frontend ( client ) generates the definition of

Engineering

Setting up TLS certificates for custom domains on the fly

When we were brainstorming on various deployment techniques to set up ToolJet on AWS EC2 instances, one common requirement that came up was to support TLS certificates for custom domains. We wanted a solution that was easy and transparent so that it feels seamless to our users. After careful thinking,