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Insights and practical guides from the Lowdefy team on config-first development, AI, and building web applications.

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Lowdefy v5.3: AI Agents in 30 Lines of YAML

A Lowdefy app can now run AI agents that call your existing endpoints as tools

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Lowdefy v5.2: Drop-in modules

A new Lowdefy app no longer starts empty

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Production

Five patterns for production Lowdefy apps

Notes from building Lowdefy apps for a living

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AI

The Case for Config-Driven Development in the Age of AI

AI can write code faster than any human. The real question is whether anyone can understand what it wrote six months later.

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Release

Lowdefy v5: What's New

Tailwind CSS, dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, Ant Design v6, 15 new blocks, and an AI-powered upgrade command

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Tutorial

What Can You Build in 50 Lines of YAML?

A form, a chart, and a database-powered search. Each in 50 lines of YAML, without the need to write any React or JavaScript.

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AI

Why YAML Might Be the Best Language for the AI Era

YAML won't win any beauty contests. But as AI does more of the heavy lifting, a lighter vehicle matters more than it used to.

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Lowdefy v4.7: Faster Builds, and a Story About JSON.parse

How we replaced five JSON round-trips per ref with a single async walker — and unlocked JIT page builds along the way

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Lowdefy 4.6: Exact Error Messages, Faster Builds, Tighter AI Loops

568 commits, 28 packages, 6 new packages, 740 new e2e tests — built for humans and AI agents

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