Appwrite Community Report #2

Hello everyone, greetings from team Appwrite 👋.

We have an exciting couple of weeks ahead of us. Excited to share our latest updates with you and show off fantastic work in our community 🙏🏽

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📢 What’s new

This week marks the start of the month-long Appwrite + DEV Hackathon! This is a great chance to jump in and experiment with Appwrite, and we’ll be right along with you throughout your journey.

This hackathon includes
🛣️ 4 Tracks (including #Web3 😉)
🏆 $10,000 is up for grabs!
🎁 Limited Edition Swag for all
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Weekly Office Hours

Everyone who participates also receives a limited-edition T-shirt and stickers! Don’t miss out on the fun!

Announcing the Appwrite Hackathon on DEV!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team ・ Apr 12 '22

#appwritehack #appwrite #meta

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✅ Issues solved

• Project logos magically missing after upload? Not any more.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Email and URL string attributes will now display the correct icon.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Fixed cookie expiration. Did you get logged out after a day? Yeah, now we found the bug and fixed it.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Python cloud functions now support custom response codes, and its behavior when sending a response with res.json is closer to other runtimes.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Majorly refactored SSL certificate generation, which is now even more reliable.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Documentation improvements for sessions, missing environment variables, and better generated attribute examples.
  🔗 Link to PR

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⚒️ What we’re currently working on

• We hear your requests for more granular event triggers for the Functions service. We’re working to refine event triggers so your Cloud Functions can listen to specific events.
• We resumed work on GraphQL endpoints to query and manipulate Appwrite resources.
• New Cloud Functions runtimes for C++, C#, Java, and Kotlin.

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🗣 Discussions

• While we work on the more granular event triggers, feel free to share your thoughts, use cases, or feature requests here:
  🔗 Join the GitHub discussion here

• Community member @danijel-tolj suggested “client error interceptors” to enhance error handling with Appwrite SDKs. If this is something that interests you, share your ideas here:
  🔗 Join the GitHub discussion here

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📘 Resources

So much has changed since we wrote 30 Days of Appwrite. We’ve updated the articles and examples to show you the complete A-Z of developing with Appwrite.

#30DaysofAppwrite : Pilot

Alex Patterson for Appwrite ・ May 1 '21

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📝 Community Updates

• Configurable executor host through environment variables, thanks to sjke.
  🔗 Link to PR

• Teri Eyenike from Hackmamba wrote an article on implementing a blog comment section using Appwrite + Vue. Check it out!
  

  

  

  Implement Quick Blog Comments in VueJS

  teri for Hackmamba ・ Apr 12 '22

  #javascript #vue #appwrite #webdev

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🤓 Learn More

🚀 Getting Started Tutorial
🚀 Appwrite GitHub
📜 Appwrite Docs
💬 Discord Community

If you liked this, leave us a ❤️ so other people will see it.

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🙌 Credits

Meme credits to Discord community member Dylan.

Comments

[Mostafa Said]

It turned out to be pretty easy to start with appwrite! It can really get you started much faster than using anything else.

[Vincent Ge]

Yeah! Making your life simpler is the point of Appwrite :) Appwrite can handle most things you need to get started, and as you grow, we can even be used alongside the rest of your backend stack.

It really motivates you to just get going building your idea, instead of spending hours deciding on the exact DB or auth solution.

[Mostafa Said]

From my understanding, appwrite is a great tool to build tools. It gives you the chance to not worry so much about the backend basics and focus on functionalities and layout.

[Vincent Ge]

Yeah, I think you can totally make production ready products with Appwrite (Many Discord community members already do this). Happy hacking!