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Three things we loved in 2020

A lot changed in 2020 for millions of people. There were new challenges in the software world, they mostly referred to the rapid adoption of remote work and online services. In order to be transformed, whole industries had to introduce new software. No-code technology became the very solution to those challenges!

Jan 16, 2021

Pavel Ershov

New feature. Templates

Certainly, Directual is becoming one of the most powerful platforms on the market. Last summer we introduced Directual Design—front-end components library and the web-page builder. That allowed us to use Directual as a full-stack low-code platform. Today we are happy to announce a new amazing feature—templates. These are apps 100% made on Directual.

Dec 2, 2020

Pavel Ershov

New platform features. September 2020

This autumn turns out to be fruitful! Meet such new gorgeous features as Cards view component for Web-page builder, JSON-step for scenarios, Form component improvements and new integrations! These features allow you to create sophisticated apps even more easily.

Sep 18, 2020

Nikita Navalikhin

Case study. Electronic catalogue for Schlumberger

Being a renowned innovator in Oil&Gas, Schlumberger chose Directual as a basic technology for its Electronic Catalogue solution. Thanks to the low-code approach the application was delivered in a minimal time-to-market. All the business needs were met, because Directual low-code platform does not have any significant functional limitations.

Aug 24, 2020

Nikita Navalikhin

Airtable and Directual. Reasons for combining and for migrating

Airtable is one of the pioneers on the no-code market. Using that “spreadsheet on steroids” a lot of people are automating such processes as CRM or applications collection. Airtable seems to be almost ideal table view for your data. But it is not almighty. Today we will figure out in which cases Airtable complements Directual capabilities and in which—it is reasonable to migrate your project from Airtable to Directual completely

Aug 11, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Building interactive web-forms

There are a lot of form-builders on the market, but almost all of them merely solve such problems as online response processing, setting up a user-based access and integrating with third-party systems. Today we are introducing new component for Directual web-page builder—interactive form—which answers to these challenges and follows all the best practices for online form-builders.

Jul 22, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Directual Design—an open-source front-end project

Directual has always been a perfect choice for low-coding a backend of a web or mobile app. But, bearing in mind our motto to “let people create”, we started working on Directual Web-page builder. Moreover, we decided to make it open-source—to let every front-end developer be able to build new web-components for interface constructor. So, meet Directual Design — the basic open-source React-components library!

Jul 10, 2020

Nikita Navalikhin

Directual vs. Amazon Honeycode. Different approaches to low-coding

Low-code is one of the most dynamic markets. New products and platforms appear every month. The essential point is that those low-code platforms can have absolutely different purposes and features. Amazon has recently announced Honeycode—a no-code mobile and web app builder. In this post we’ll figure out how Directual differs from Honeycode.

Jul 1, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Case study. Employee portal for UFG Wealth Management

UFG Wealth Management meticulously fosters a strong, cohesive company culture. Personal development of each and every employee is an essential issue for improving that culture. Directual helped UFG Wealth Management to build digital solution which implemented the modern and efficient approach to improving employee personal development process.

May 28, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Directual and React

React nowadays is the most popular JS-library for building user interfaces. Directual matches React perfectly, providing flexible and scalable backend. This post is an introduction for the future series concerning building complex apps on a full-stack combination of Directual and React.

May 14, 2020

Pavel Ershov

New feature. Comments in scenarios

You'll find the new feature in the latest Platform release—comments in scenarios. We consider this piece of functionality as extremely important and useful. Directual scenarios become easy-to-read.

May 2, 2020

Nikita Navalikhin

Zapier meets Directual

Directual is now connected with 2000+ popular apps, including Mailchimp, Trello, Google products, Dropbox, Airtable and many others. This integration leverages the power of Directual even more!

Apr 23, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Introducing fresh Directual 7.0

The Spring 2020 has become the time for one of the most significant Directual updates since the very beginning. We are introducing: fresh 7.0 version of the platform, open registration, flexible pricing plans and the Academy.

Mar 31, 2020

Pavel Ershov

Why IT teams should embrace low-code?

Today’s modern world demands digitalisation and best of the best IT products from pretty much any company or enterprise. It is from this perspective that IT Departments are facing tough challenges which can be dealt with by implementing low-code technology.

Dec 1, 2019

Nikita Navalikhin

What is Low-code?

Low-code technology came around quite recently but, in spite of that, businesses are already benefiting from its capability of creating digital products quickly and effectively. In this article, we will discuss what low-code platform is and how it can be effectively implemented.

Oct 15, 2019

Pavel Ershov

Free until you’re ready to skyrocket

No trial here. You are welcome to learn and experiment. Directual will be free as long as your app is small and isn’t in prod. Then just choose the proper paid plan–they are flexible and start from 30$ monthly.

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Directual blog

Three things we loved in 2020

New feature. Templates

New platform features. September 2020

Case study. Electronic catalogue for Schlumberger

Airtable and Directual. Reasons for combining and for migrating

Building interactive web-forms

Directual Design—an open-source front-end project

Directual vs. Amazon Honeycode. Different approaches to low-coding

Case study. Employee portal for UFG Wealth Management

Directual and React

New feature. Comments in scenarios

Zapier meets Directual

Introducing fresh Directual 7.0

Why IT teams should embrace low-code?

What is Low-code?

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Free until you’re ready to skyrocket