Lowcoder Documentation
  • Lowcoder overview
    • The "Hello World" walk
  • 🆕Setup and run
    • Cloud & Private Cloud
    • Self-hosting
      • Google Cloud Platform
      • Easypanel
      • Heroku
      • Raspberry Pi
      • Access local database or API
      • Update MongoDB Versions
      • Lowcoder Version Update
      • Traefik loadbalancer
      • SMTP Server
      • Migration from Openblocks
    • Security
  • 🏨Workspaces & Teamwork
    • Workspaces
      • SAAS Mode
      • Enterprise Mode
    • Members and Groups
    • Permissions for Resources
    • OAuth
      • KeyCloak
      • Google
      • GitHub
      • Generic OAuth Provider
    • Query library
    • Lowcoder Marketplace
  • ✨Build Applications
    • Create a new App
      • App(s) Navigation
      • Modules
      • Version and Release Management
    • App Editor
      • Query & Editing Roundtrips
      • Bulk Editing
      • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Data selection & Javascript
      • Layers
      • Visual Components
        • Common Component Settings
        • Messages / Toast
        • Dashboard & Reporting
          • Table
          • Charts and graphs
            • Bar Chart
            • Line Chart
            • Pie Chart
            • Scatter Chart
            • CandleStick Chart
            • Funnel Chart
            • Gauge Chart
            • Graph Chart
            • Heatmap Chart
            • Radar Chart
            • Sankey Chart
            • Suburst Chart
            • Theme River Chart
            • Tree Chart
            • Treemap Chart
            • Mermaid Chart
          • Google Maps
        • Layout & Navigation
          • List View
          • Drawer
          • Modal
          • Navigation
          • Cascader
          • Tree / Tree Select
          • Link
          • Floating Button
          • Text
          • Step Control
          • Page Layout
          • Content Card
          • Tabbed Container
        • Data Collection & Forms
          • Form
          • Input Field Types
          • JSON Schema Form
        • Meeting & Collaboration
        • Project Management
        • Calendar & Scheduling
          • Calendar
          • Date & Date Range
          • Time & Time Range
        • Document & File Management
          • File upload
        • Item & Signature Handling
        • Multimedia & Animation
          • Image
        • Integration & Extension
        • Legacy & Deprecated
      • Option lists
      • Date handling
      • Use Markdown
    • App Interaction
      • Event handlers
    • Themes & Styling
      • Design an efficient and user-friendly form
      • Customize Styles
      • Component Styling Possibilities
    • Video Calls in Lowcoder
  • 🚀Connect your Data
    • Data source basics
      • Configure IP allowlists
    • Data sources in Lowcoder
      • APIs as Datasource
        • REST API
        • GraphQL
        • Google Sheets
      • SQL Databases
        • MySQL
        • MariaDB
        • Supabase
          • Supabase PostgreSQL
          • Supabase Assets API
          • Supabase RealTime
          • Supabase OAuth
        • PostgreSQL
        • Microsoft SQL Server
        • Oracle
      • NoSQL Databases
        • MongoDB
        • CouchDB
        • DynamoDB
      • InMemory Databases
        • Redis
      • File Storages
        • S3 File Storage
      • BigData & OLAP
        • Big Query
        • Snowflake
        • ClickHouse
        • Elasticsearch
      • Websocket Datasource
    • Query basics
      • Bind Query Data to Components
      • Query library
  • 🪄Workflows
    • n8n Integration
  • 💫Business Logic in Apps
    • Write JavaScript
      • JavaScript query
      • Temporary state
      • Transformers
      • Data responder
      • Built-in JS functions
  • 🙌Publish Apps
    • Share an App
    • Publish an App
    • Embed an App
      • Embed App in HTML Pages
      • Embed App in WordPress Pages
      • Embed Apps in React
      • Embed Apps in NEXT.JS
      • Native embed SDK
        • Build the SDK from Source
  • 🔥Lowcoder Extension
    • Opensource Contribution
      • Develop UI components for Apps
      • Develop Data Source Plugins
    • Use third-party libraries in Apps
      • Day.js Date handling
      • Import your own JavaScript Library
    • Custom component
    • Lowcoder Open REST API
  • Lowcoder for Enterprise
    • Custom branding
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  • Why choose Lowcoder?
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What is Lowcoder?

Lowcoder is an easy-to-use open-source low-code platform to build internal & customer-facing, embeddable apps within minutes.

Traditionally, building an app requires complex frontend and backend interactions with hundreds and thousands of lines of code, not to mention work on packaging, integration, and deployment. Lowcoder significantly reduces the work you need to do to build and publish an app.

In Lowcoder, all you need to do is drag and drop pre-built or self-customized components onto the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) canvas, along with ready-to-connect databases and APIs, Lowcoder helps you build an app quickly and focus on business logic.

Why choose Lowcoder?

  • Open source: For cloud and self-hosted deployment. Makes your ideas more feasible.

  • All-in-one platform: Connection to all kinds of data sources and APIs such as Databases, Streaming sources, and Restful APIs, and ensures your data security.

  • Embed Apps everywhere: Apps, that are created with Lowcoder can get embedded natively into Websites, Apps, and Mobile Apps.

  • High scalability: The deployment options allow a single container image, but also a scalable multi-container deployment, so any kind of load is manageable.

  • Extensibility: Add functionality in Lowcoder at multiple places. From simple custom components and external libraries to new data source plugins.

  • Built-in features: Multi-tenant management, Multi-workspaces management, theming, mobile screen, navigation support, fine-grained access control, and audit logs.

How to build Apps in Lowcoder?

  1. Quickly and securely connect to your data sources, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and online APIs.

  2. Create Data queries visually or by SQL or set up request parameters to connect APIs.

  3. Use our ready or self-customized UI components to build your app UI and bind and display query data with UI components like Tables, Charts, and Lists.

  4. Set up event handlers to trigger queries, control components, or other actions in reaction to user interactions.

  5. Preview and share your app with others.

Clean design: Follows the principles of and supports display on screens of different sizes for Desktop and Mobile Applications.

Building an app :

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