Gadget

Gadget is a developer productivity platform designed to help developers quickly build, run, and scale web apps with AI. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools under one roof, including a backend, frontend, database, and custom API, all automatically hosted. Gadget aims to streamline the development process by eliminating repetitive boilerplate work, allowing developers to focus on high-value tasks. Gadget provides several key advantages for developers. It offers a fully integrated environment that includes a backend, frontend, database, and custom API. This setup is automatically hosted, ensuring that developers can build secure, scalable backends quickly and easily. The platform supports rich field types like vector and computed fields, and provides a spreadsheet UI for managing and editing records. Each project starts with a PostgreSQL database that scales as the app grows. Developers can build tables in seconds without needing SQL or schema migrations. The platform also supports real-time queries, API client generation, CRUD operations, search, filter, pagination, upserts, bulk actions, and more. Gadget allows developers to connect to third-party APIs without writing code. It includes built-in webhook handlers to react to real-time events and supports syncing large datasets with a single API call. The platform generates instant, type-safe APIs and client libraries, complete with customized documentation and code samples tailored to specific API endpoints. Developers can build pixel-perfect React frontends in minutes using extensible, auto-generated components pre-wired to the API. The platform supports custom UIs with the full power of React and provides real-time previews of changes. Gadget enables developers to deploy their entire app, including schema, backend, frontend, config, and everything in between, with a single command. The platform is hosted, scaled, and kept performant by Gadget, ensuring serverless operation at every tier. It includes Google Cloud hosting, 24/7 monitoring, database auto-indexing, and enterprise-scale infrastructure built to handle high throughput without service disruptions. Gadget provides a cloud IDE and supports local development with preferred tools. It offers unlimited dev environments, source control with Git, scriptable CLI commands, and an API playground for testing actions instantly. The platform also includes an embedded logging tool with search and filtering capabilities for troubleshooting as developers build. Gadget includes essential features for apps with minimal effort, such as password recovery, email templates, user roles and permissions, one-time billing, recurring billing, and usage-based pricing. Gadget is suitable for a variety of use cases, including ecommerce apps, internal tools, integrations, and SaaS applications. It can be used to build custom or public apps for Shopify and BigCommerce, mission-critical tools like dashboards and automations, two-way data syncs between popular APIs, and multi-tenant SaaS apps that scale to millions. Developers and agencies have praised Gadget for its ease of use and efficiency. For example, Simon Barnes from Made and Bound noted that using Gadget Connections is at least 4-5x faster than setting up an app manually, saving time that would normally go into making the project performant, secure, and scalable. Other developers have highlighted Gadget''s ability to streamline authentication, tunneling, and deployment, making the development process much easier.