4 posts tagged with "OpenBuild"

Nine minutes. One app. No code. The recording sits above.

You model the data. You compose the pages. You ship to the app store. You never leave the browser.

Building and shipping an app in the browser, no code required — the full recording is above. The hands-on tutorial walks the same build step by step so you can follow along.

OpenBuild is the visual builder for Conduction apps. The three-paths tutorial teaches the manifest path by hand: you write manifest.json and the Cn* components render it. OpenBuild builds that exact same manifest for you through a UI. You point and click, OpenBuild writes the manifest and the OpenRegister schemas behind it, and you get a working Nextcloud app with no repository, no build step, and no deploy.

This tutorial builds a Pet Store with a veterinary layer, the canonical Conduction sample domain. By the end you have an app your whole organisation can open: a dashboard of live numbers and charts, browsable lists of pets and owners, a rich pet profile page, a vets-only medical section, a released production version, a widget on everyone's LaunchPad, vet appointments in Nextcloud Calendar, and photos attached to each pet. Everything in this tutorial is built in the OpenBuild UI against a real OpenRegister behind it.

Nextcloud is standing in front of an open window. Most people, including many inside the ecosystem itself, have not yet noticed it is open. What started as a safe alternative for file storage has quietly grown into something fundamentally different. The technical reality is already that of a platform. The name is the only thing still trailing behind. And in technology, as history teaches us, naming is not cosmetic. Naming is load-bearing. Windows close.