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What is Xano?
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What is a Backend?
Why have a separate Backend?
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Fundamentals
Getting Started with Xano
Designing your Database
Setting up your API
Connecting to a Front-End
🗄️ The Database
Database Basics
Database Tables
Table View
Adding Database Content
Database controls
Field Types
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The API
API Basics
NO CODE API Builder
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Working with data
The Basics
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Addons (GraphQL-like)
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⚒️ Building Backend Features
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Payments
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Generating CSV Files
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Xano Features
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Dynamic Image Transformation
Snippets (Share your API)
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Encryption
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ISO 27001:2013
ISO 9001:2015
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Database Basics
What is a Database?
Xano hosts your data on a
PostgreSQL
database which is the most powerful open source database in the world. It provides the flexibility of a relational database along with the Big data needs of a NoSQL solution.
Basic Database concepts to understand
Database Basics video course
Database tables and setup
- Tables are the Entities that make up your application
Table view
- A spreadsheet-like editor for the content in your Database
Field types
- The different "types" of content that you can store
Database relationships
- How to connect data together.
Video Course
Setting up the Database for your App
Part 1: Database Basics (SQL vs. NoSQL)
Part 2: Querying Data + Xano Basic Database Setup
Part 3: Relationships, Addons and Joins
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What is a Database?
Basic Database concepts to understand
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