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Build front-ends on REST APIs

Retool makes it easy to build admin panels, dashboards, frontends, and other GUIs on top of your REST API endpoints.

Build front-ends on REST APIs
Easily connect to your REST API

Easily connect to your REST API

Connect to your REST API, pull in your data, and get right to building. Explore our native API integrations with S3, Firebase, Firestore, GCS, GraphQL, gRPC, Lambda, and more. Connect to multiple data sources and build frontend apps to interface with your data, not just visualize it.

Build your internal tools fast

Build your internal tools fast

Retool is a fast way to build fully featured internal tools on top of your existing REST APIs. You can build admin panels and dashboards in a few minutes instead of hours (or days). Build your front-end quickly with our drag & drop user interface builder. Write JavaScript where necessary to build custom functionality, and create a front-end that you can use right away with our integrated IDE.

Build faster with 50+ drag and drop components

Build faster with 50+ drag and drop components

You can use any of Retool's library of 100+ drag and drop components – think tables, buttons, text inputs, etc. Connect those to requests to your endpoints via Retool's query GUI, and you've got yourself a working frontend tool in no time.

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Dean McRobie

CTO at CommonBond

I tell every technology leader I talk to that they should look at Retool as a way to reduce the burden of building admin UIs and democratize that kind of stuff across their company.

Supported operations for REST API

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GET
Include headers, URL params, and cookies.

POST
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies. Our GUI lets you define your body as structured keys and value or raw JSON.

PUT
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies.

DELETE
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies. By default, only runs in response to a user interaction.

PATCH
Include headers, URL params, a request body, and cookies.

Join with other datasources
Easily join with other Retool connected datasources like Stripe or AWS S3.

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An admin panel for reading from and writing to your customer data, built on a REST API. This app lets you look through customers and take action on your data.

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Retool provides the building blocks for any internal tool

Whether you're building a basic CRUD interface or refund management software, internal tools have the same building blocks: tables, text boxes, dropdowns, etc. Retool gives you a simple way to connect these building blocks with your own data sources so you can assemble any custom internal tool, fast.

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