Announcing Azure Cosmos DB support for restdb.io

by Jon Erik Solheim
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|Howto| Features|

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As you might know, restdb.io has support for MongoDB compatible querying using a simple REST based interface. Developers love that complex database specific details are hidden and simplified in one coherent developer experience.

However, in many cases, there are good reasons for developers and data owners to have more control of and access to their own database instance.

This blog post shows how you can connect restdb.io to an Azure Cosmos DB instance.

Send mail from your application

by Jon Erik Solheim
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|Howto| Features| API|

mail Yes, your restdb.io database can now send email.

A simple REST endpoint on your database makes sending email from your application a breeze. A nice responsive HTML email template makes your application emails look great, even on mobile devices.

Taking reuse to a new level - introducing the restdb.io database template catalog

by Knut Martin Tornes
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Boiler plates and HTML templates are very popular among developers. With restdb.io database/app templates, we want to take reuse to a completely new level.

A few months ago, we introduced the snapshot functionality for restdb.io databases. A simple click and a complete clone of a database with schema, REST API, HTML pages and setup would be created. Perfect for development staging, testing, reuse and sharing.

We are now introducing a template catalog where we are sharing various types of database applications you can install directly into your account. You can use these templates to learn from, as a starting point for a new solution or just use them right out of the “box”.

Stay in the loop with Codehooks and Slack

by Jon Erik Solheim
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|Integrations| Features| Tutorials| API|

The new restdb.io feature, Codehooks,  lets you execute JavaScripts directly in your database.

This feature opens up an array of cool scenarios for your application.  One of them is to integrate your database with slack.com.

Slack seems to be every team’s favorite collaboration platform now. If you’re not using this great tool already, I would suggest you give it a try. It can practically eliminate the need for sending internal (non-important) emails, and introduces a more human touch to your team information flow.

That’s why it makes sense to let your database talk to Slack, instead of you logging on to your database admin, all the time, to see what’s going on.

This blog post shows you how you can create a JavaScript Codehook to feed your Slack with important stuff that happens inside your database.

Instant cloud apps with Snapp templates

by Knut Martin Tornes
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We have previously written blog posts with source code and plenty of examples of how to set up backends, web sites and blogs using a restdb.io database (see restdb.site).  

However, even though we provided detailed steps on how to set everything up, we felt the barriers was still there for developers to get going. We needed a way to share our examples without requiring people to set everything up themselves, a kind of snapshot or clone of a complete solution.

Meet our latest feature:  Snapps

Create a technical blog with Markdown and restdb.io in 39 lines of code

by Knut Martin Tornes
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|Howto| Features| Tutorials|


We've just added two-way support for using Markdown. Any text field in a restdb.io database record can now easily be edited using the integrated Markdown editor and the built-in webserver of every restdb.io database can render the text as perfect HTML using the #markdown helper tag.

In this blog post we describe how we set up a restdb.io database to power a simple blog site using just a tiny amount of code.
 

REST API Inspector

by Jon Erik Solheim
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Cloud service APIs can often feel like black boxes. Applications send information in and get responses back, but you feel like being in the dark and don't really see what's going on.  

The new restdb.io REST API Inspector  (  ) will help you to shed more light onto your APIs.

Introducing realtime REST events

by Jon Erik Solheim
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|Features| Howto|


A brand new feature of restdb.io is support for really simple realtime messaging. 

Now, with only a few lines of code, you can update web pages dynamically whenever some data are created, updated or deleted in your database (POST,PUT,DELETE). We have also added custom events, so you can for example publish "GOAL" events or whatever.

Announcing restdb.io access roles

by Knut Martin Tornes
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We are pleased to tell you that restdb.io now support access roles. No need to worry about letting other users into your database again. Roles are particularly useful when you need to restrict access to what users can see and do in your database.

Draft records makes publishing database content simpler

by Knut Martin Tornes
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We are pleased to announce drafts for restdb.io. This makes it much easier to use the database service for content management or for example product information management.

Web Form Generator now support file and image uploads

by Knut Martin Tornes
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Great news! We have now released a new version of the Web Form Generator that will generate HTML and Javascript code for uploading files and images into your restdb.io database collections.