Can you create user profile pages dynamically with code in anvil?

Anvil Q&A
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I’m creating an anvil app and I want for each one of my users to have their own profile page. How can I do this with anvil?

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The short answer is, yes, you can do that in Anvil.

You don’t say what you’ve already tried, or what you’re using for your app. So I can only give general advice. Look at the Anvil Extras routing module: Routing — Anvil Extras documentation

That gives each main form in your app a distinct URL. You can use that to work out which user’s profile page a particular URL should display, and display that user’s profile.

If you haven’t used routing before, it requires a major change in how you navigate from form to form, but it’s worth it. I wouldn’t write an app without it.

Here’s a sample app that uses hash routing and shows how to manage login/logout with it: Anvil | Login

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I like this example app, but how can we load dynamic content based on the logged-in user? Like if we have a Profile page, how do we let the user type in his name, address, other information and have it saved/displayed? Through custom database entries?

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Yes. Your profile data table would have a link to a User row. You can always get the currently logged in user through anvil.users.get_user() and use that value to either query the profile data or to add/update it.