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We're migrating away from our clunky forum to a brand new Community. This will make it easier for you to discover new features/tutorials and get questions from fellow Xano users.

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HIGHLIGHTS 🚀

Massive Performance Improvements

Building your backend in Xano should feel much snappier. We've made huge improvements to how quickly you can move around the app.

Introducing Quick Search - Easily Hop to Any Place in Xano!

Tired of manually navigating back and forth between pages as you build your backend? Now you can use the search hot key (CTRL/CMD + F) to jump to any part of Xano. Enter in a specific page like "Database" or your API Endpoint name to jump right to where you want!

Enable your Users to Sign in with Magic Link

Magic Links allow your users to authenticate into your app without a password and without the need of 3rd party OAuth that require your users to have specific social accounts.

XANO ❤️ NO CODE COMMUNITY 🪄

Outseta - Integration

We've been working hard with the Outseta team 🤝 to make it easy to use Outseta + Xano together!

If you use Outseta to manage your SaaS or Membership site and Xano to power your backend, this extension joins the two worlds together so that you have everything you need to launch, scale, and grow quickly.

Bravo Studio - Build a Photo Sharing App

This tutorial is just the beginning - The Bravo Studio team and Xano are working together 🤝 to create more awesome content for you to prototype and validate your ideas faster!

From Figma or XD file to Native App! Bravo studio is the fastest tool to build better prototypes, validate ideas, and launch real products. The tutorial shows you how to use Bravo Studio as a frontend an Xano as the backend to build a Photo Sharing App (like Instagram)

Bubble - Authentication with Magic Link

Want to users of your Bubble app authenticate without a password? This video will show you how using our new Magic Link extension!

We have lots of users that use Xano and Bubble together. We've created a playlist of items that will help you be successful.

Retool - Easily Visualize your Xano API Endpoints

Easily visualize or generate a dashboards based on the Data you get from the Xano API.

Retool makes it easy to take external data sources and plug them in to build useful internal dashboards, charts, and visualizations.

NEW MARKETPLACE EXTENSIONS ▶️

Authentication

• Outseta - Enable your Outseta to easily login into your Xano application.

• Magic Link - Passwordless login using Email (Sendgrid) or modify it to use SMS (Twilio).

Payments

• Stripe Prices - This builds on the Stripe Products Extension which defines what you sell. Stripe Prices tracks how much and how often to charge.

Messaging

• Mailgun - Enable Email delivery using this popular email service provider.

• Ably - Ably enables you to provide complete real-time functionality to your users. We've updated this to include three endpoints including a simple messaging endpoint, an endpoint for push notifications, and a full fledged endpoint for anything you want to do with the Ably API.

NOTABLE VIDEO TUTORIALS ▶️

• Addons (Similar to Graph QL) - Addons are one of Xano's most unique and powerful features. They allow you to extend the response of your APIs from other data sources while giving you full control over how the data is queried.

• Role Based Access Control - Learn how to lock down and add an extra security layer to your API endpoints by restricting access based on a user's role.

• Using Variables to Pass Data in the Function Stack - Learn how you can store and pass data from function to function with variables in the Function Stack. This way you can manipulate your data exactly how you need to.

• Background Tasks - Also knows as cron jobs, allow you to schedule tasks to run one-time or on a recurring frequency.
  

PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS & FIXES 🛠️

FEATURES

• [New] CPU Usage Monitor - Easily keep track of how much CPU your instance is using and when it might be time to upgrade to the next plan.

FILTERS

• [New] Cryptography Filters - Allows you to convert plain text into into unintelligible encrypted text and vice-versa. These filters give you a method of storing and transmitting data in a particular form so that only those for whom it is intended can read and process it. Read the documentation

• [New] Reverse Filter - Allows you to reverse the order of an array.

• [New] Random Sort Order - You can now sort your queries randomly from the return settings of the Query All Records function.

FIXES

• [Fix] Addons - Fixed the "As Self" bug so when you display go to display the add-on result outside of an object it doesn't break.

• [Fix] Background tasks - Fixed a bug where some background tasks were not executing properly.