API Express

Wed May 13, 2015 7:12 pm

If you are interested in creating API REST services from a variety of sources and not just consuming them in your app, you might be interested in the Appery.io release coming next week. API Express will allow you to do this without leaving the Appery.io platform. Here's the official page: https://appery.io/api-express/

Tue May 19, 2015 8:18 pm

Hello Charles, please see this thread: https://getsatisfaction.com/apperyio/...

I was extremely excited to use the API express feature, have been waiting for something like this as I would like to use an Amazon RDS mysql server for app and was hoping to avoid writing all the custom rest services.

So as soon as I saw the API express announcement I spent a few days learning how to stand up a mysql instance in Amazon RDS and how to configure its VPC so it is accessible by API express. Once I got everything working in tried API Express in appery and very quickly ran in to the 2 problems described in the other thread. Another appery employee has replied that API express is only for angularJS projects (my project is jquery mobile). I did not see anywhere in the documentation or API Express UI that this functionality was limited to angularJS projects. It would have been nice to have been able to find this information up front since if I cannot use this functionality in jquery mobile projects those several days I spent learning about Amazon RDS have now been wasted.

Wed May 20, 2015 12:01 am

I have to agree with GregMC, this is kind of a joke that it's supported only by angularJS, and if anything you should release it first on JQM where I'm sure most of your users have active projects. Nowhere is this mentioned in any docs. It looks like I will use:

http://blog.dreamfactory.com/add-a-re...

Wed May 20, 2015 12:11 am

I have spent the last couple hours looking at dreamfactory as an alternative.

As you say Miguel it is extremely frustrating that Appery would not add this support first for jquery mobile users. It really makes me wonder how committed Appery is long term to their jquery mobile builder and if they are going to invest in any good new features for it.

Wed May 20, 2015 1:24 am

Well I have long wondered what will happen when JQM 1.5 rolls out and breaks many of the things like (dialogs) that are deprecated. I wonder how that transition will be, and I'm guessing some pain will be involved. Even with the angularJS they warn that there could be issues with it, and that it's not quite production worthy. I'm not sure which path is better right now.

Thu May 21, 2015 4:06 pm

Let me add some more information about this.

There are two features that we just released: API Express and Offline Sync.

API Express allows you to expose a relational database via REST API

Offline Sync allows you to build apps with offline capabilities.

As API Express exposes a database via REST REST APIs, you can use the APIs in jQuery Mobile app and in AngularJS app (Bootstrap/Ionic). You can call the API from any other app (language of your choice).

The API Express extension does work with AngularJS apps right now. It generates services that use the Offline Sync library and connect to the exposed database via API Express. A better name for the extension might have been Offline Sync extension.

API Express exposed services will work with jQuery Mobile apps. You simply create REST APIs and then add then in the App Builder (Create New Service REST). This works just like any other API.

You can even add the Offline Sync library to your jQuery Mobile app but that will require a little bit of work. We are looking into adding the Offline Sync support to jQuery Mobile apps as well.

Hope this make sense.

Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:48 pm

can you explain more about jQuery mobile apps? how can i connect sql database that i have created in api express?

Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:20 am

I have the same question as Nisa. I need some clearer instructions on the api express/jquery mobile app connection.

Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:03 am

Hello everyone,

API Express extension is available only for Angular projects.
More you can find her https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...
For jQuery Mobile projects we have App Creator Express extension, more here https://devcenter.appery.io/documenta...

Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:43 am

so there's no way to connect sql database with jquery mobile?