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Get the latest news about the no-code frontier, tips & tricks to building apps fast, and our own ramblings on no-coding.

October 2021. New platform features

Fresh platform release contains such long-awaited features as file uploading from forms, white-label option for the portal. We’ve also implemented a plethora of UI-improvements for smoother user experience.

October 3, 2021
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Low-code's application in different industries

Low-code tech is taking the business industry by storm! This simple coding solution allows even non-IT staff to craft programs and applications that fit their industry's needs. In this article, we'll tell you precisely how low-code benefits multiple sectors of society with its intuitive and easy-to-use system.

August 29, 2021
by
Allison M Calamy

Plugins

There have always been a lot of tech savvy people among Directual community members who were ready to apply their skills for developing platform extensions. Today Directual team is happy to provide such people with plugin features! Having that functionality, any person is able to develop and deliver a plugin like a connection with CRM or with a payment system.

July 29, 2021
by
Nikita Navalikhin

How to craft an ideal Public Roadmap

Directual product development roadmap goes public! There you can find the current development pipeline, upvote the features you like most, request new ones and subscribe for the updates. Of course, the roadmap is developed on the platform. You’ll find new template and a comprehensive step-by-step video-tutorial for building a similar roadmap app for yourself!

June 4, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov

May 2021. New platform features

The nature is flourishing in May, so does the platform! We are happy to introduce such long-awaited features as Table component for web-page builder and the ability to colour Cards. Also, the handling date data becomes much easier with formatting settings. And finally, UI/UX of a HTTP-request step was totally reworked. More to come!

May 17, 2021
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Web-pages builder update

Directual has always been an extremely powerful platform for back-end development. In 2021 our engineering team has been focused on turning the platform to full-stack no-code development platform. In the recent update we introduced new web-page builder layout—flexible, responsive and intuitive.

April 12, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov

February 2021. New platform features

2021 has just started, but we are ready to announce new features and a new pricing plan. We’ve significantly improved Cards and Form components, introduced update of Telegram step and added the feature of connecting custom domain name to your app.

February 11, 2021
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Three things we loved in 2020

A lot changed in 2020 for millions of people. There were new challenges in the software world, they mostly referred to the rapid adoption of remote work and online services. In order to be transformed, whole industries had to introduce new software. No-code technology became the very solution to those challenges!

January 16, 2021
by
Pavel Ershov

New feature. Templates

Certainly, Directual is becoming one of the most powerful platforms on the market. Last summer we introduced Directual Design—front-end components library and the web-page builder. That allowed us to use Directual as a full-stack low-code platform. Today we are happy to announce a new amazing feature—templates. These are apps 100% made on Directual.

December 2, 2020
by
Pavel Ershov

New platform features. September 2020

This autumn turns out to be fruitful! Meet such new gorgeous features as Cards view component for Web-page builder, JSON-step for scenarios, Form component improvements and new integrations! These features allow you to create sophisticated apps even more easily.

September 18, 2020
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Building interactive web-forms

There are a lot of form-builders on the market, but almost all of them merely solve such problems as online response processing, setting up a user-based access and integrating with third-party systems. Today we are introducing new component for Directual web-page builder—interactive form—which answers to these challenges and follows all the best practices for online form-builders.

July 22, 2020
by
Pavel Ershov

Directual Design—an open-source front-end project

Directual has always been a perfect choice for low-coding a backend of a web or mobile app. But, bearing in mind our motto to “let people create”, we started working on Directual Web-page builder. Moreover, we decided to make it open-source—to let every front-end developer be able to build new web-components for interface constructor. So, meet Directual Design — the basic open-source React-components library!

July 10, 2020
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Directual and React

React nowadays is the most popular JS-library for building user interfaces. Directual matches React perfectly, providing flexible and scalable backend. This post is an introduction for the future series concerning building complex apps on a full-stack combination of Directual and React.

May 14, 2020
by
Pavel Ershov

New feature. Comments in scenarios

You'll find the new feature in the latest Platform release—comments in scenarios. We consider this piece of functionality as extremely important and useful. Directual scenarios become easy-to-read.

May 2, 2020
by
Nikita Navalikhin

Zapier meets Directual

Directual is now connected with 2000+ popular apps, including Mailchimp, Trello, Google products, Dropbox, Airtable and many others. This integration leverages the power of Directual even more!

April 23, 2020
by
Pavel Ershov