Itsy: A Free Pack for Writing Web Apps that Run in Coda

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Yep, there it is @Bill_French & @Agile_Dynamics.

Every time you press the = button on the calc, the result will be added to the table on the right:

This is actually too cool. This means one can make whatever form layouts, whatever intake fields etc and report the data into my Coda doc. No need for packs, no need for masochistic SVG tinkering, no need for Coda form trickery. This is so huge I secretly weep that I didn’t find it myself :sweat_smile:

P.S. Holy hell, that sweet feeling when all pieces of the puzzle finally click together :smile:

I always wanted custom widgets in Coda and I kinda knew I could just make my own web server but that didn’t feel clean enough. So the path there was:

  • I found the capability to render SVG in images, which was the first step to custom widgets

  • Then @Artem_F found the way to render HTML+CSS in those SVG, which allowed to ditch the low-level rects and leverage the powerful DOM + CSS rendering engine.

  • Then @Agile_Dynamics made the solution with a custom web server so that interactivity could be there

  • Then @Bill_French found a way to ditch the 3rd party server and rock off vanilla Coda.

  • And finally, the recently added webhooks feature in Coda allowed to connect these widgets back into Coda.

Now literally everything is possible.

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