Top React Component Libraries for 2020 A React component library is a collection of styled React components that you can use in your React applications to save time, add functionality, increase efficiency, and make the app look great. Here are six of our favorites for 2020.
announcement Can you build this for me? As a not-so-technical marketer, I dread asking engineers these types of questions. It’s not that I have a deep-seated fear of working with developers or anything like that. In my experience, most people are happy to help (at least for the first few times).
How to Work with Auto-Incrementing IDs in SQL This guide will walk through how to implement and work with auto-incremented fields in SQL, run through syntax for different SQL dialects, and explain how to handle more secure UUIDs.
The 10 Best React Admin Templates in 2020 React admin templates are templates for admin dashboards that are built in React and can be customized to fit your needs. Most templates come loaded with features for UIs, widgets, and apps, plus the ability to add custom React components.
interview How Assembled uses Retool to build internal tools Assembled uses Retool to build and run internal tools on top of their Postgres data.
The Best MongoDB GUIs in 2020 This post walks through the best available GUIs for querying and working with your MongoDB data.
A Beginner’s Guide to the GraphQL Ecosystem Almost 40% of JS devs have used GraphQL to make it easier to query their APIs. This post walks through everything you'll need to get a GraphQL endpoint set up yourself.
The Best GraphQL IDEs and Their Features To support the growing number of developers building APIs via GraphQL, new integrated development environments (IDEs) are popping up quite literally every month. But which one is the best for you? Below, we review the best GraphQL IDEs available.
tutorial Building a Shopify customer and order dashboard with GraphQL in Retool If you’re selling something that needs shipping, chances are you’ve heard of Shopify. And if you’re one of the over 1 million merchants selling on Shopify, visibility is key: you
The State of Internal Tools in 2020 We surveyed 300 developers and builders about their internal tools: how much time they invest, which frameworks they use, and what their biggest frustrations are.
Best Google App Maker alternatives in 2020 Google App Maker is shutting down next year. See what alternatives are available for low code and no code app building.
How we migrated our community from Spectrum to Discourse The details behind how we migrated our community from Spectrum to Discourse, and the scripts we used to do it.
Building an admin console in react-admin This tutorial walks through how to build a fully functional admin panel in React backed by a REST API with authentication using the react-admin framework.
sql Best PostgreSQL GUIs in 2020 psql is nice, but nobody wants to write their queries in the command line. This post walks through the best GUIs available for querying your Postgres data.
sql Isolation levels and locking in relational databases “We need to build this for scale!” yells your manager, in a fury. You think back to a simpler time: when your application only had a few users. When your transactions executed sequentially,
interview How to build great internal tools: Jeremy Edberg (eBay, Reddit, Netflix) Everyone seems to know what internal tools are, but they are poorly understood on a broader level. How do the world’s best companies think about internal tools? How much time should engineering
interview How Retool helped run a presidential campaign “Within two months of announcing candidacy, the team needs to scale up to 200 people. That’s faster growth than any startup you’ve worked at.” A great tech team is now table
interview How to build great internal tools: Chad Rosen (Twitter, Wealthfront) Everyone seems to know what internal tools are, but they are poorly understood on a broader level. How do the world’s best companies think about internal tools? How much time should engineering
What's an ACID compliant database? When you’re building and maintaining an application, the last thing you want to worry about is data integrity; Charging a customer the wrong amount or losing their data can be catastrophic. Thankfully,
tools What’s SAP? What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B? Every year companies spend $41B on enterprise resource planning software, commonly known as ERP. Today, almost every large business has some sort of ERP system
tutorial Building a listing approval tool in MongoDB If you’ve ever worked at a marketplace company, you know that not every listing should be approved. If you’re managing any kind of listing data – apartments, ecommerce SKUs, or even vendor
guide Formatting and dealing with dates in SQL It’s 3AM, and you’re sleeping soundly in your room. But slowly, your sweet dream turns into a nightmare: all of the queries you wrote earlier in the day are parsing dates
Tell us about how you build your internal tools! TL;DR: we're running a survey about internal tooling and we'd love you to participate. State of Internal Tools Survey Chances are you’ve spent time on internal tooling: operational, non-customer facing software
Building a version-controlled S3 file manager in Retool Contents: Background Live demo Versioning overview Connecting to S3 Reading files from S3 Uploading files to S3 Building our version control system Drilling down into a file Adding finishing touches Adding finishing touches
guide Typography for Developers You may have read the title for this post and thought, "Why on earth does a developer need to know anything about typography?" I mean, there’s already a lot on
