The Anvil Dependency Library is open!

I will attempt to answer everyone in a single post :grin:

  • We’ve made a couple of quick updates to the Dependency Library! We swapped the “+” icon for a more suitable menu icon and we made other tiny quality of life changes.

  • Some dependencies that are in the forums (and on this very handy wiki) are indeed not showcased in the Dependency Library just yet. We’ve reached out to their creators and are waiting for them to give us their consent to include their apps, as well as to ensure their apps meet our criteria, which I will get into right now.

  • For an app to be on the Dependency Library, we require them to be put on GitHub with an MIT license. We encourage creators to open source their dependencies, which ensures nobody is at legal risk for putting their apps out there for other Anvil users to use, and GitHub is the simplest way to do so.

  • Regarding the dependency card art… you got us! We made the ones featured in the blogpost screenshot more as a proof of concept than anything else. Rest assured, we won’t let the Dependency Library remain a sea of gray for long.

  • You are indeed more than welcome to post suggestions in the Feature Requests section of the forums (no worries @divyeshlakhotia, I took note of your very good suggestions!). We will keep track of suggestions made there and include them in our future plans.

Thank you all for your engagement so far, and stay tuned for future updates!

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