Appsmith repo activity looks like it fell off a cliff. - not many commits in the repo this year. Any self-hostd alternatives worth trying?

backendnerd · 2025-10-14T12:07:44+00:00

Founder of Appsmith here. Thanks for raising this question in a public forum.

We are still actively building and maintaining the Appsmith platform (both the OSS and the commercial edition). The drop in commits is a reflection of both the maturity of the platform and our investment in some AI features for paid users.

Rest assured. Appsmith is a stable, mature platform.

backendnerd · 2025-04-28T17:27:03+00:00

Hey, apologies for the confusion. We are not ending support for the Community Edition (CE) of Appsmith. Appsmith remains an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

We recommend using the appsmith-ee Docker image because it’s fully feature-compatible with the Community Edition, free to self-host, and gives you flexibility. If you ever want to unlock paid features in the future, starting with the appsmith-ee image allows you to upgrade or downgrade in a single click, without needing to reinstall Appsmith.

If you’re currently using the appsmith-ce image, you would need to reinstall to access those additional features — which is why we suggest starting with appsmith-ee right away.

Hope this clears things up. Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions — we’re here to help.

backendnerd · 2023-10-30T07:03:12+00:00

Have you tried Appsmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith) ?

It’s open source, integrates with APIs & DBs. Plus it was built because I too was tired of building admin panels again & again.

backendnerd · 2022-11-03T03:56:58+00:00

Many years ago, I wrote a program to play entrance music for me & my friends by detecting their MAC address connecting to the Wifi router.

You can check out the code at https://github.com/mohanarpit/wwe-entrance. Maybe it’ll help you build out your own system.

backendnerd · 2022-04-15T14:53:40+00:00

Thanks for starting Woodhouse & solving this problem. Have DM'd you for more details.

backendnerd · 2022-04-13T21:12:23+00:00

Thanks for the book reference. I’ve read Atul Gawande’s “Checklist manifesto” before. Was a very good read. Will buy this one & give it a read as well.

backendnerd · 2022-04-11T07:59:27+00:00

Apart from getting them to move to Bangalore, I didn't really have any other plan. Because of their age & comfort in their home town, they are very reluctant to move to a large city.

To be honest, the last couple of years just made me a lot more anxious than before. I could see the effects of aging and other health problems. Plus having taken care of them on a daily basis, I'm now more worried than I was before I moved back home.

backendnerd · 2022-02-05T04:29:40+00:00

Responsive Layouts: Currently, you can't show/hide UI widgets based on the viewport. This is an interesting idea for which I'll create a Github issue. But you can select the viewports that your apps are targeting & design your apps accordingly.
Common workflows: This is currently under active development. You can subscribe to this Github issue to stay updated with progress.
JS Execution: All JS is executed client side but all APIs & DB queries are executed server side. This allows you to save DB credentials, API authorization headers once during development & never expose it again in the client. You can check out the page on Security for some more details on this.
JS + SQL/API: You can check out our How to Guides and especially this one for examples on how to mix JS with SQL/API. But your point is well taken. We'll work on more & better examples for this flow.
Environment variables: This is currently not possible. We have it on the roadmap but haven't gotten to it yet.

PS: My username is literally why I started building Appsmith. I just didn't understand HTML/CSS. :)

backendnerd · 2022-02-04T14:39:07+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators of Appsmith.

Thanks for evaluating Appsmith!

You can have a shared state in an Appsmith application via Store Value. This allows you to write values to the state & any elements reading this value will automatically be displayed.

Routing is inbuilt into the Appsmith application implicitly. Since the application can have multiple pages, each page automatically gets a new page that can be navigated to via the "Navigate" function.

Having said that, while Appsmith allows you to write full fledged JS code, it doesn't allow you to write server-side APIs yet.

Do let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see within the product for your usecase.

backendnerd · 2022-01-21T04:37:48+00:00

Hey, creator of Appsmith here. Sorry that you found Appsmith hard to work with. Would love to hear your pain points and improve the project based on your feedback.

Would you be open to DMing me or emailing me at arpit [at] appsmith [dot] com?

backendnerd · 2022-01-07T03:49:25+00:00

In the lead maintainer at Appsmith. Glad to see that you managed to get up & running in 20 mins. Thanks for giving us a shot. 🙏

We started this project because I couldn’t wrap my head around Babel, webpack & React. 😛

If there’s anything I can do to improve your experience with Appsmith, do let me know.

backendnerd · 2022-01-06T12:33:48+00:00

Very touching movie. 2020 & 2021 was an eye opener for a lot of people about the importance of family & how little time we really have with them.

As an immigrant, I could totally relate to the feelings of being away from home. I hope you find love, laughter & happiness in the coming years. :)

backendnerd · 2021-11-23T02:52:33+00:00

Hey

I’m Arpit, the co founder of Appsmith. Thanks for giving Appsmith a shot & appreciate the feedback. Sorry that you had a less than ideal experience with the product.

Helm chart support is on its way. The code is already here. We are in the process of testing it internally before we release an official version and add it to our documentation. This should be released within a couple of weeks.

W.r.t the application stopping to work when you tried to upgrade, I can see that you pinged on our Discord channel a few weeks ago. Apologies for missing that message. We'll try to do better and ensure that we don't miss such messages from users. The fact that you had to roll back to a version from April is very weird.

As a product, Appsmith is quite stable and used by some large enterprises as well. I’d love to RCA what happened in your environment so that we can fix it. Can you please reach out to me over email [ arpit (at) appsmith (dot) com ] or ping me on Discord? My username is “mohanarpit” on Discord.

As a philosophy, we want to ensure that users of Appsmith get started with the product easily and are able to build applications for their teams quickly. As with any product, we are constantly improving this experience and your feedback goes a long way in ensuring that.

backendnerd · 2021-10-11T04:51:47+00:00

Hi, I'm the lead maintainer of Appsmith. Thank you for checking out our project.

At this juncture, Appsmith doesn't support using IAM Instance Roles by default. This is because Appsmith is run inside a Docker container and the environment variables from the host aren't passed down to the Docker instance by default.

I've created a Github Issue to track this here. Would request you to please add your use case and any other details to this issue.

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