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Baserow is an open-source online database tool. Users can use this no-code platform to create a database without any technical experience. It lowers the barriers to app creation so that anyone who can work with a spreadsheet can also create a database. The interface looks a lot like a spreadsheet. Our goal is to provide a perfect and fast user experience while keeping it easy for developers to write plugins and maintain the codebase. The developer documentation contains several topics you might need as a developer.

Getting started

New to Baserow? This is the place to start.

• Introduction: An introduction to some important concepts before using Baserow.
• API: An introduction to the REST API and information about API resources.
• WebSocket API: An introduction to the WebSockets API which is used to broadcast real time updates.
• Database plugin An introduction to the database plugin which is installed by default.

Guides

Need some help with setting things up or understanding how Baserow works?

• Running Locally: A step-by-step guide to run Baserow on your computer.
• Install on Cloudron: Instructions to manually install Baserow on Cloudron.
• Install on Ubuntu: A step-by-step guide to install Baserow on an Ubuntu server.
• Understanding Baserow Formulas: A guide explaining how to use the formula field in Baserow.
• Formula Technical Guide: A more technical guide about formulas aimed at developers who want to understand and work with internals of Baserow formulas.

Development

Everything related to contributing and developing for Baserow.

• Development environment: More detailed information on baserow’s local development environment.
• Running the Dev Environment: A step-by-step guide to run Baserow for development.
• Directory structure: The structure of all the directories in the Baserow repository explained.
• Tools: The tools (flake8, pytest, eslint, etc) and how to use them.
• Code quality: More information about the code style, quality, choices we made, and how we enforce them.
• Create a template: Create a template that can be previewed and installed by others.
• dev.sh: Further details on how to use Baserow’s ./dev.sh helper script.

• IntelliJ setup: How to configure Intellij to work well with Baserow for development purposes.

FAQs

• Baserow Docker How To: Common operations and solutions for working with baserow’s docker environments.

Reference

• Baserow Docker API: An API reference with all supported environment variables, command line arguments and usage patterns for Baserow’s docker images and compose files.

Plugins

Everything related to custom plugin development.

• Plugin basics: An introduction into Baserow plugins.
• Plugin boilerplate: Don’t reinvent the wheel, use the boilerplate for quick plugin development.
• Create application: Want to create an application type? Learn how to do that here.
• Create database table view: Display table data like a calendar, Kanban board or however you like by creating a view type.
• Create database table view filter: Filter the rows of a view with custom conditions.
• Create database table field: You can store data in a custom format by creating a field type.
• Creata a field converter: Converters alter a field and convert the related data for specific field changes.

Other

• External resources related to Baserow: A list of external third party resources.