AppSmith is a low-code platform for building internal tools and dashboards. I have created an instance of AppSmith running in the cloud that you all will use to create your UIs for the project.
Note: As of today, Nov 28, 2002, only the first email address listed on the Phase 1 sign-up has been added to the AppSmith Workspace. However, that person can add the rest of the team members.
To add another team member, do the following.
- Go to https://appsmith.cs3200.net. If you haven’t already created an account, do so.
- Log In if you are not already logged in.
- You should now be at your Project Workspace. Click the share button in the upper right corner of the screen. See Figure 1 below.
- Put in the email address of the team member you want to add, and assign the role of developer. See Figure 2 below.
Guidance:
I encourage you to go through the sample application creation that can be found here: https://docs.appsmith.com/getting-started/start-building.
Take a few moments to look at the set of widgets that you can use to build a UI in Appsmith. You can find out more about the available widgets here: https://docs.appsmith.com/reference/widgets/
Connecting to your REST API:
In order to connect your AppSmith application to the REST API running on your local machine, you’ll need to do the following:
- Start your docker containers with docker compose.
- Launch ngrok to create a publicly available url for your Flask REST API.
- In your AppSmith application, create a new datasource…
More coming soon…