Anvil Blog

20th of March 2018

How We're Building One Y Combinator Startup a Day

It’s Y Combinator’s week of Demo Days, and we’re prototyping one YC startup each day. Meter Feeder (YCW 16) lets you pay for parking with your smartphone. Let’s build it.

8th of November, 2017

Building a Python Autocompleter

Why do you need autocompletion, and how does it work? A talk from Pycon UK 2017.

1st November 2017

PyCon UK Wrap-Up

From molecular modelling to Hangman, PyCon attendees built some seriously impressive apps with Anvil.

10th October 2017

SMS Surveys in Pure Python

Incorporating SMS into an app? See how simple it can be with Anvil.

5th of October 2017

New: Media in data tables

We’re used to storing text and numbers in databases, so why not binary media? Whether it’s images, PDF files or whole spreadsheets, now you can store your files directly in Anvil Data Tables like any other data type.

21st of September 2017

New: Data Bindings

Design your data right onto the page.

22nd of August 2017

Build a Business Dashboard with Python

This walkthrough shows you how to access an existing Postgres database to develop a business dashboard in Anvil.

26th of July 2017

Interactive plots for your apps

Python is the world’s favourite language for data processing and visualisation. You can now offer interactive charts right inside your Anvil apps, built and customised in just a few lines of code.

17th of July 2017

HTTP endpoints for your apps

Create an HTTP API for your Anvil app.

27th June 2017

Make the world better? Remove some Javascript.

Anvil runs Python in the browser by compiling Python to JavaScript. Find out how!

15th of February 2017

Smart Python Code Completion

Every coder knows the pain: You know what you need to do, but you can’t remember the name of that function, or what order it takes its parameters. It’s time to fix that problem.

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