Documentation is coming.
We are writing the AppMaker docs alongside the beta. Until they land, the environment itself is designed to be learnable from the inside.
If you have used a RAD environment, you already know most of it
AppMaker follows the model that developers know from .NET WinForms, Delphi, Visual Basic and similar rapid application development tools. You place controls on a form, set their properties in the inspector, double-click an event to write its handler, and call the server from that handler. Forms, controls, client scripts and server scripts are the same concepts, in the same places, with the same names you would expect.
Start from the built-in examples
Every new workspace includes sample projects. Open one, run it, then open its forms and scripts in the Designer to see how a working application is put together.
Let the designer tooling guide you
The property inspector lists everything a control can do. The events panel shows what you can respond to. The API panel in the code editor lists the functions available to client and server scripts, with a short description of each.
Ask the AI, when available
The optional AI assistant knows the AppMaker project model. Ask it to add a form, wire a grid to a server script or explain what a piece of generated code does, then keep editing by hand.
What the docs will cover
- Getting started and your first project
- Forms, controls and the property inspector
- Client-side JavaScript and events
- Server scripts, SQL and the built-in database
- Calling and exposing APIs
- Authentication, users and roles
- Jobs and workflows
- Exporting and hosting your application