Newsletter 40: Xano Plugin, External API in Data Group, Download Data via External API, Data Values in External API

Feb 24, 2023

Hi There!👋

We are here this week with fascinating updates for you. 😀😀

The updates lined up for you are New Features - to spice up your app, Upcoming Features - to take your app to the next level with Video Tutorials and Blog Posts - to help you at every step of the process.

Get over roadblocks and upgrade your app in exciting new ways.

Try them today and let your app stand out.

Till we bring the next update, stay inspired and have fun building your app! 😀😀

📰 What's New?

New features, Latest developments & Updates!

👨‍💻 Xano Database Schema Plugin

What's this Feature All About?

This is a deep integration of Xano. This allows you to build all your Collections, fields, API end points, events and pages with a single click of a mouse.

#1. Collection (all tables),

#2. Fields (all fields in collection),

#3. External APIs (all APIs such as GET, POST, DELETE etc),

#4. Events (all events such as Update, Filter) and#5. Pages with CRUD screens (coming soon).

Benefits:

Build all the Collections of your web app using Xano to avoid creating them manually.
Automatically Create all the fields of those collections.
Create all the REST APIs for all end-points to access Xano data.
Automatically create all Events needed to bind to form and data table/group for CRUD operations.

Try It Out →

🔠 External API Response Support in Data Group

What's this Feature All About?

This feature enables you to pull or fetch data form rest APIs and display in the form of data group.

Benefits:

Useful when you want to pull the data and display it in the form of cards, without storing in DrapCode database.
Much useful in cases where you want to display data dynamically as it keeps changing, such as Hotel/Flight availability and booking.

Try It Out →

⏬ Download Records via External API Ignoring Pagination

What's this Feature All About?

This feature is used to download all records from Data table, via External APIs and ignoring the pagination. So lets say there are 200 records matching the filters but only 10 are displayed on the data table at any point of time, and you want to download all 100 of then in the CSV in a single go, then this video is helpful.

Benefits:

Downloading all records at once can be faster than making multiple requests for each page of data.
Allows you to perform the processing on the entire dataset at once, rather than on each individual page of data.

Try It Out →

🔠 Support of previous Form Data Values in External API

What's this Feature All About?

Supporting previous form data session values in external API involves capturing and storing the form data in a session and then sending it back to the API in subsequent requests. This features allows users to complete a form submission process that requires multiple steps or pages.

Benefits:

Reuse and display of data which was submitted as part of previous form.
Useful in case of multi step forms where the data of one step is displayed in the next steps.

Try It Out →

🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fixed bug for pass session value in RAW/JSON while using fetch data group from external API response
Fixed a bug to add ID option in conditional redirect
Enhancement: give default file name in case of file downloaded via external API
Enhancement: External API: Handle the Current Session and Current Form Session values directly in External API independent of event session keys

🎦 Video Tutorials

Watch and learn all about the Builder!

Data Group with External API and Browser Session Data

This feature enables you to display any REST API data in the form of Cards using Data Group, so that the data can be displayed directly from the REST API without storing it in DrapCode database. Useful when you are using DrapCode as a frontend builder and no data is getting stored anywhere. 😃😃

Check It Out

Event to Reload the Current Logged-In User in Data Session

In this video you will understand how to refresh or reload the logged-in user details when the user is logged-In. For eg. Let's say the data of some user fields gets changed in the backend database via some mechanism (event, API or any other trigger) and now you want those changes to reflect in the current logged-in user immediately. In this case you can use this event action to reload the logged-in user's recent details into the browser session. 😃😃

Check It Out

Upcoming Features

Here are some of the upcoming features that are in pipeline!

✳️ Supabase Plugin

This feature allows you to build all your collections fields, API end points, events and pages with a single click of a mouse. Collection (all tables), fields (all fields in collection), external APIs (all APIs such as GET, POST, DELETE etc), events (all events such as Update, Filter) and pages with CRUD screens (coming soon).

📂 2-Way Data Sync with Airtable

Integrating Airtable Sync in DataSources allows you to build web apps on top of Airtable data and any changes made get reflected on Airtable. Since Airtable has API limit, so this feature will help to interact with Airtable data without worrying about those limits and you can build your web app for millions of users.

Blogs & Insights 😀😀

Read & learn about no code & low code in depth.

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