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Embedding workflow web forms in your app

By Ben Ogle

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July 21, 2021

Learn how to embed workflows in an iframe: collect user information, fill PDFs, and gather e-signatures, all from within your app.

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Understanding The Styled System

By Derek Foster

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July 07, 2021

Learn how the Styled System streamlines your CSS-in-JS provider, and how Anvil leverages this library to build powerful, fully responsive UI components.

Engineering

Keeping certain parts of your GraphQL schema hidden from Introspection

By Chris Newhouse

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June 24, 2021

Learn how Anvil leveraged custom GraphQL directives to prevent sensitive parts of our schema from being publicly visible in the Introspection Query.

Engineering

Advanced HTML to PDF API features

By Ben Ogle

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June 16, 2021

Use advanced HTML & CSS to generate PDFs that look exactly like you want with our API. We'll cover page numbers, rendering in margins, page breaks, and table header repeating.

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Understanding CORS

By Allan Almazan

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June 09, 2021

An overview of CORS and how it can affect your webapp.

Engineering

Minimizing Webpack bundle size

By Winggo Tse

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May 26, 2021

Learn how to minimize your Webpack bundle size by following these best practices, ensuring an optimal user experience.

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Load-balancing a gRPC service using Docker

By Richard Albayaty

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May 14, 2021

Learn how to set up a gRPC microservice in your local development environment with efficient load-balancing.

Customer Stories

How Seso digitized the process of farmworker hiring

Learn how a labor marketplace for the agriculture industry was able to save weeks of engineering time.

Engineering

Repeating PDF pages with the PDF filling API

By Ben Ogle

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May 05, 2021

The Anvil PDF filling API now supports repeating pages within a PDF. Perfect for custom invoices, insurance paperwork, financial documents, and much more.