- 3 Reasons to Use Kintone for your hack
- 🚀 Getting your FREE Kintone Database
- 💪 Using your Kintone Database
- 📺 How to Create a Kintone Database App? - Video
- How to generate a Kintone API Token?
- Where Can I Get Help?
- What can I build with Kintone?
- More Resources
- No servers are needed! - Ridiculously fast to build databases!
- Effortlessly manage database data and schema with GUI!
- Super simple to build JS customizations!
Head over to the Developer License Registration Form
- ✅ Accept the Cookies first
- ✅ Use Chrome & Firefox
When creating your Kintone Subdomain:
- ⚡ Only use lowercase, numbers, & hyphens in your subdomain
- ⚠ Do not use uppercase or special characters
After submitting the form, you will get a confirmation email with an Activate Now button.
- Email title:
Welcome to Kintone! One More Step to Developer License
Then you will be redirected to your Kintone Subdomain to set the initial password.
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Once you create your Kintone Subdomain, it is super simple to access it.
Simply go to YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.kintone.com with YOUR_SUBDOMAIN swapped with your unique Kintone Subdomain.
To create a Database App, from the Portal screen, click the [+] button on the right side next to the Apps section.
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Check out this guide that goes over creating an example Manga Database App.
To generate an API Token for a Kintone App:
- Go to the Kintone App
- Go to the Gear icon ⚙️ (top right corner) > Open the App Settings page
- Click on the App Settings Tab > Click on API Token settings
- Click the
Generatebutton to generate a token - Click the
Savebutton (top left corner) to save the token setting - Finally, click the
Update Appbutton (top right corner) to implement the token setting change.
Confused? 🤔 → Check out the Get the API Token video clip 📺
If you are stuck, post your question & code on the Kintone Developer forum!
If a Kintone mentor is available, post on Discord!
We are more than happy to answer any questions or help fix any problems regarding Kintone.
Here are a few projects that use Kintone as the web database!
This is a phaser.io game running on Kintone. It is super easy to get started! No need to set up a node.js environment or AWS serverless environment! You just need a code editor & Kintone account.
Check out the tutorial on Having Fun with Browser Games & Web databases - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
Obniz Board is an IoT Microprocessor that is easily programable with JavaScript! Since Kintone supports JavaScript customizations, it is the best web database to integrate with Obniz Board!
Here is a step-by-step tutorial explaining everything you need to get an Obniz Board exporting data to the Kintone web database!
In this particular example, the node.js app retrieves record data from a Kintone web database via REST API and displays it on the page of the node.js app.
Check out the tutorial on Deploy a REST API calling node.js App to Heroku - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
This is a recording from Kintone's React workshop series! We go over how to set up a React project and Express server to access data stored in Kintone!
Code & Slides are available at this GitHub Repo:
ahandsel/React_Workshop_by_Kintone
Clone the codebase & follow along with the video to build out the POST functionality! If you are stuck, check out the GET_n_POST branch with the completed version!
| Resource | Link |
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| Get Started Guide | kintone.dev/en/quickstart |
| YouTube Channel | youtube.com/c/KintoneDeveloperProgram |
| Kintone Dev Forum | forum.kintone.dev |
| Intro to Kintone Slides | ahandsel.github.io/kintone-for-hackathon/ |
| Kintone API Docs | kintone.dev/en/docs/ |
| Kintone Tutorials | kintone.dev/en/tutorials/ |