advantage:

A fully responsive UI library

Dozens of plug-ins are built in ILLA Builder to meet the needs of developers in different scenarios.Developers can increase their productivity by dragging and dropping, which saves a lot of time building in-house tools

Integrate and act on any data source

ILLA can connect to popular databases or any data that can be connected through API, and add operations to link to user events. It closely combines the data acquired by the backend with the insertion of the frontend, and developers only need to write simple data calls to achieve massive information interaction.

built for developers

Provides a high degree of freedom for developers to implement richer functions through JavaScript, wrap JS statements with {{Template Syntax}}, and place JS in any string-type variable space to achieve richer output

Collaborate with any developer anytime

ILLA turns imagination into real code and design. Developers can work concurrently in ILLA Builder by sharing a link. They can edit and communicate with other developers in real time, and provide timely feedback, greatly improving development efficiency.

Meet the deployment needs of various developers

Additionally, ILLA:

1. Rust has been used on a large scale and has excellent performance experience.
2. As a sponsor of Vue, ILLA attaches great importance to the fluency of front-end use, and the use is very silky

Interface diagram of ILLA

According to the current release of ILLA, by the end of this year, everyone will be able to use ILLA’s cloud service for cloud deployment and quickly experience ILLA. As an open source software, ILLA currently supports fast local deployment, and the local version can be installed within 5 seconds. You can try it out.

Try it online:https://fast-try.illacloud.com/

Use ILLA’s components and page functions to build a front-end UI

ILLA provides dozens of commonly used front-end components, and the UI can be easily built by dragging and dropping components. Meanwhile, ILLA has just updated a new version 1.4.0 this week. In recent releases, support has been added for two major design patterns in web application development − Single-page applications and multi-page applications.

Use ILLA’s Action function to connect data

ILLA integrates with many common databases and APIs. In addition to common MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc., it also supports many rising stars in the field of open source databases, such as TiDB under PingCAP, and GitHub’s popular open source databases SupaBase and MindsDB.Through ILLA’s visual interface, you can connect to various databases, and perform database CRUD (CRUD) operations. Connect these operations to components to display data or operate the database through the front-end UI.

in addition,This week’s new release also supports connecting to Amazon S3. You can connect to S3 through ILLA, and perform operations such as file query, file download, delete, and upload.

How to install ILLA locally

If you are also interested in using ILLA, you can pass https://fast-try.illacloud.com/ Come for a quick trial. You can also follow my steps below to install and use ILLA Builder locally and deploy it locally. You can easily download and install ILLA CLI via cargo:

Cargo will download ILLA CLI and its dependencies, and compile and install ILLA CLI into the cargo executable directory so that we can use it. After the installation is complete, we can use the ILLA CLI through the illa command. For more installation methods and project configuration introduction, you can view the official project documentation:

https://www.illacloud.com/en-US/docs/overview

Join the ILLA Community

ILLA’s team has a developer-oriented community on Discord, if you encounter any bugs or problems during use. In addition to obtaining technical support by raising an issue on GitHub, you can also communicate in Discord. Find related links and join the community on ILLA’s GitHub.

Summarize

ILLA’s product original intention and product design are good, helping developers reduce tedious and boring internal tool development time and improve work efficiency. The product is still in the early development stage. With the continuous improvement and development of the product, especially the launch of ILLA Cloud, it will bring a qualitative leap in user experience. Local deployment tools are no longer needed, but the cloud environment can be used directly. I personally think that using ILLA can not only quickly build some data dashboards and short-term internal applications in large companies, but also be of great value to independent developers and start-up teams when used with other open source tools. Through ILLA, you can quickly build the MVP of some products and deploy them in the cloud to realize operation. Especially in the case of a shortage of engineers, it can greatly save development time and cost, and help developers greatly improve work efficiency. I hope more developers can pay attention to ILLA and try more. If you like it, don’t forget to give the development team a star on GitHub ✨

GitHub address:https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder