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Publishing Apps

Publishing an app in DynaMaker is straightforward. In this tutorial you learn the basics.

Use any app you have built that already has a working component (and ideally configurator), no matter how polished it is. This tutorial does not require coding, only a few clicks.

You complete two steps:

  1. Publish online
  2. Understand publishment

1. Publish Online​

When you are done with your components and configurator, you can then publish online. Then you will:
a) set up the application preview
b) publish to web

A. App Preview​

Taking Tutorial 8 as example:

  • Choose the following options:
    • Layout > Configurator Sidebar and Visualization (default UI).
    • Visualization > Component (in package ASSEMBLY).
    • Configurator > configurator.

Notice how the preview on the right updates depending on the options chosen.

B. Publish To Web​

  • Click on Publish to Web.
  • Assign a bought subscription (keep reading the tutorial if you don't have a subscription yet):

  • Click Publish to Test to make your app online ready for testing.
  • Click Publish to Production to make your app online ready for the end user.

2. Understand Publishment​

Your application can exist in three environments:

  • Editors: what you as an engineer work with continuously, and what the user never sees.
  • Test site: published app meant to show experimental changes, typically for user testing.
  • Production site: published (error-free) app meant to be used by the user, it must be polished.

The typical workflow of publishing an app (see picture above) is:

  1. Building App: Engineer builds the app based on requirements (editors v1).
  2. Implementation: Engineer adds the feature (editors v1 → v2).
  3. Internal Testing: publish to the Test site (test v1) and share the URL with e.g. Sales for feedback.
  4. Bug Fixing & Improvements: if Sales reports issues, engineer fixes them, improves code (editors v2 → v3 → v4), and republishes to Test site (test v2) for re-review.
  5. Approval & Release: once approved, publish to Production site (prod v1) and give Sales the customer-ready link.
  6. Next Cycle: Sales gathers new feature requests while customers use the current version; engineer works on them in editors (v4 → v5), then repeats the cycle.

Do you want to create your own User Interface with buttons, extra configurators, tabs and more functionalities? Learn the basics in the next tutorial Custom UI.