Here is another update on the Theme builder app. After the first release of theme builder, we thought of adding few more features and enhancements to enable our users to create great themes to get their web, mobile applications looking well finished.
WaveMaker has added support for importing API that are documented using OpenAPIs, Swagger specification in 10.4. However building a robust OpenAPI support is very important as different API while using OpenAPI/Swagger document their endpoints in subtly different ways. We tried importing OpenAPI documents from different API sources. One such example is when we tested an OpenAPI document generated through PostgREST. In this blog we'll discuss what changes we have made in 10.5 in order to support OpenAPI documents generated from such sources.
WaveMaker product team is able to make weekly patch releases and, feature packed releases every alternate months. Typically product releases involve testing of several micro services, API’s and User interface, functionality etc. WaveMaker platform is composed of several such services, and functional testing can be only done by building apps using visual drag-n-drop studio. To ensure the best product quality for releases, our QA process involves building automation tests for APIs as well as UI functionality using Selenium.
Uploading files from a mobile phone is a common use case that every mobile app has. Until last release, WaveMaker UI to select files had the following problems.
Performance is key to the success of any application. Even though an app is feature-rich if it's not responsive to user actions it might lose its userbase. WaveMaker is a platform enables our users to develop web, mobile applications. We strive to enable top notch performance of these apps. Towards this goal, with each release, WaveMaker introduces changes aiding in optimization of generated apps in terms of code, build outputs & serving of the apps. The optimizations are made available to the customers out of the box. It requires minimal or no changes to be done by low code developers while building an app in WaveMaker, thus easing the process of building faster apps.
With working from home as a new normal, we have released yet another major update with some of the most interesting features in it. To learn about our detailed list of features and fixes, see WaveMaker Release Notes 10.5.
As a modern development team, we are adapting to the latest technology trends. If there is something you feel WaveMaker should have, do let us know here.
Now, let's jump straight to see what's new in this release!
Today it is becoming more and more common to break down a monolithic architecture into micro services, thereby you get many small APIs that work independently. In micro services architecture, a bunch of services are broken down into independent smaller services which expose standard REST APIs to interact with.
Creating and customizing the look and feel of WaveMaker applications is just a few clicks away now. We have introduced a theme building tool for changing color schemes and creating branding specs. Theme-builder brings the benefit of codeless theme creation in a few simple steps. With a built-in code editor, one can make changes and see custom styles instantly applied to the web components.
In my last blog post, we saw how the Corona Tracker app works and we discussed how to build a dashboard using WaveMaker. I recommend you to read the part-1 of the blog first. In this post, we will see how to build visualization for charts and visualization for maps.
Alongside the crisis that COVID-19 had brought to the world, there has never been so much prominence for the numbers. Almost every household, governments, businesses, media etc. are contemplating these numbers, creating models for prediction, taking measures to flatten these curves. That’s when we immediately jumped on to create an application using our own low-code platform.
Using WaveMaker, you can almost instantly create a chart or plot for visualization from any datasource. There are several API sources for COVID-19 data and with no code, using out-of-the-box widgets and charts the application has been built in just a few days.