Overview
Introduction
These Docs will help you get Ucode up-and-running quickly, guide you through advanced features, and explain the core concepts that make Ucode so unique.
💡 Ucode is Backend As A Service platform for developing your backend fast and easy for non tech users
Ucode is an Open Data Platform built to control your data easy way
This platform provides everyone on your team, regardless of technical skill, equal access to data and digital file asset management, for any data model or project. First, link Ucode to your desired database and file storage adapter. After that, Ucode enables you to perform CRUD operations, create users, assign roles with fully configurable permissions, build complex and granular http queries and integrations
Database Introspection & Abstraction
DB’s flavors all come with slightly different data types and idiosyncrasies. Ucode uses Database Overlay to read your database structure and create an abstraction layer to handle all the nitty-gritty details behind the scenes. This technique works seamlessly with any major database. It also lets you link Ucode to your new or pre-existing database or remove it anytime, with no impact on your existing data model. That means you'll never encounter vendor lock-in.
The App and APIs
Once your database is introspected and abstracted, Ucode dynamically generates REST API endpoints to manage your data with granular control.
The API no-code App. In other words, the App is just a GUI that provides no-code access to the API. This architecture is how Ucode democratizes the database and provides control to the whole dev team
Custom Configuration Options
Extensive configuration options are also available as global variables in the codebase. Developers can custom configure custom functions and endpoints instead of which is already generated by Ucode and developers can create their own Micro Frontends which give dev team much flexbility and removes vendor lock in
How It Works
Ucode is cloud based as a layer on top of your new or existing database.
The App and API dynamically "mirror" your actual schema and content in real-time. This is similar to how technical database clients (like phpMyAdmin) work. However, Database Introspection has many unique advantages:
Absolute control over your pure database schema.
Complete transparency, portability, and security for your data.
Allows importing existing databases, unaltered and without migrations.
Significant performance improvements through optimizations and indexing and caching layer.
In contrast, other platforms typically use a predefined or proprietary one-size-fits-all data model to store content . That is not the case with Ucode. Ucode gives you direct access to your pure and unaltered data. That means you have the option to bypass the Ucode middleware (API, App) and connect to your data. This effectively removes all bottlenecks, latency overhead, and proprietary access limitations.
Who's It For?
Ucode lets the whole team work together and access data in one place.
Developers
Developers get a complete data connection toolkit with REST APIs, access to global variables to customize configuration options, and direct command-line access to digital assets.
Power Users
Data analysts and data scientists have in-app tools to query data, build out in-app analytics dashboards, and extract or upload data in file format. Additionally, these users are still free to link other services.
Business Users
The no-code app is safe and intuitive enough to make data accessible to everyone, even the most non-technical users. Administrators can create fully granular permissions for roles as well as individual users.
When to Use It
Ucode can power any data-driven project and can be linked or removed at any time.
Build, monitor or manage any data model or app you desire: IoT fleets, e-commerce, SaaS, business data analytics, multi-channel content, or anything else! If it involves SQL and digital files, you can link up Ucode. With this in mind, four broad use cases do emerge:
Backend as a Service
An end-to-end data solution. Efficiently connects data, auto-generates exhaustive APIs for projects that scale, and provides webhooks and task automation. Completely detached from the database, you're free to link and remove Ucode anytime or use any other service in tandem.
Headless CMS
Remember, content is just data from a database! Manage any omnichannel digital experience. Deliver file assets and data across websites, apps, kiosks, digital signage... the sky's the limit!
Internal Tool Builder
The whole team can build custom apps! Ditch the spreadsheet and quickly build back-office apps and admin panels for customers, inventory, projects, marketing, or anything else.
Why Use It?
Ucode is a simple, data-first solution to complex problems with no downsides.
Udevs was created in 2021 and has been slowly, iteratively improved on for a long time by Udevs as a tool for accelerating development. The core team has carefully thought through the app, beginning to end, and strives to make this platform an all-benefit and no downside experience. It is also plug-and-play, so you're free to link or remove it anytime, with zero impact on your data. You have no vendor lock-in whatsoever, your data is yours. There are no artificial data limits (e.g. limits on users or roles).
Consider competing platforms in the four general use cases mentioned above. Due diligence to select a viable solution from one of these categories can easily take six months to ensure the feature list, pricing, scalability, migration options, etc.. all match the project in question. However, with Ucode, that's not the case! You can test it immediately on an existing database or build a new data model from scratch, with no impact on your data and no long-term commitments.
The following core principles guide this platform:
Pure — No predefined or proprietary schema. All system metadata is stored separately.
Portable — No vendor lock-in. Your database can be exported or migrated anytime.
Limitless — No arbitrary limits or paywalls on users, roles, translations, and data.
Extensible — Every aspect of this platform is modular to avoid any hard feature ceiling.
Unopinionated — Choose the stack, database, and architecture as you wish.
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