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Vibe Coding is Awesome - But Let's Talk Backends (Because They Still Matter)
Vibe coding. Yeah, you’ve definitely seen it, probably dabbled in it yourself. Platforms like Loveable.dev, Replit, Claude Code, and a ton of others, are changing how we think about coding. It’s like skipping the boring stuff, going straight to building something fun. UI prototyping, algorithms, slick little experiments, honestly, it feels like magic. But okay,...

Custom events, Direct invocation of custom server-side code

In addition to the built-in events triggered by the API calls, Backendless supports custom, developer-defined events. Custom business logic code, which is executed on the server-side, can be attached to either built-in events or the developer-defined ones. Custom events can be triggered through a specialized API call from a client library or by other custom…

Connecting to external hosts from custom business logic

There are a lot of scenarios when custom business logic on the server-side may need to connect to an external host. Whether it is a service call to a third-party service or a retrieving data from a proprietary system, the code must establish a connection to an external host. Up until now if you tried…

Interactive Release History

We build and release a lot of software – core service, 5 SDKs and a special utility for custom business logic. We always wanted to visualize our release history to make it easy to navigate through the releases and see how a specific SDK or the core service is evolving. Today we release our release…