To know about what i can do with anvil

I want to build webapp which must have a fancy gui. My idea is i have data stored in local database. It needs to have multiuser login system. I need to store the data’s in my pc to anvil database using anvil. Then i have to show the data’s to the users and have a option for to be downloaded anytime they want.
So my questions are the following -

  1. Can i upload the data from my pc to anvil database?
  2. Can i do custom html and css in anvil?

if i can do both of these things on anvil can you give a tutorial links so i get the idea how to do it.

Please i want specific answers to these questions.

Welcome to the forums.

  1. upload data from pc to anvil.
    There is a file uploader component (https://anvil.works/docs/client/components/basic#fileloader) and you can process the file to be inserted into the built in data tables (https://anvil.works/docs/data-tables). There are examples in the forums and in the documentation.

  2. Yes, you can do custom html & css (https://anvil.works/docs/client/ui/html-forms).
    Again there are examples throughout the forums.

There is also a built in login system (https://anvil.works/docs/users)

Do also read the blog (https://anvil.works/blog) and the various links off of here (https://anvil.works/learn) for some step by step examples.

All will require some reading of the documentation, and when you have specific questions or problems then the people on the forums will help you wherever possible.

It’s definitely worth it - once you get it there is, in my opinion, no faster way to produce solid web apps.

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@david.wylie already answered about how to upload files.

If you instead want to copy data from a local database to an anvil table, you can use an uplink script, which allows you to run a script on your computer that works on anvil tables as if it were running on the server.

If I can build a web app with the help of anvil and do custom HTML & CSS, then it’s great to me, if I have a personal website and I want to build a web app according to my site, it’s possible or not. How can it helps me to doing so.

Hello,

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by building an app according to your site.

Is it possible for you to provide more specific details as to your needs?

How can helps me to build a webapp for my personal website? It’s possible or not.

@adamhenry

Please read these docs/posts to see if they relate to your needs:

custom domains:
https://anvil.works/docs/deployment/choosing-urls#using-your-own-domain-name

combining Anvil with static site:

embed site in Anvil app:

Apps you build with Anvil can be styled using custom html & css. See this section of the docs for an overview :

https://anvil.works/docs/client/themes-and-styling

Thanks for sharing a beautiful link. I really enjoy the themes so much and they are good to me.

Feel good to see me here. I appreciated with you all for your great help. Hope it helps me a lot. Thanks for your great suggestion.

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