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How Xojo Simplifies Full-Stack Development for Everyone

The demand for skilled full-stack developers continues to grow in 2024. These developers handle both the frontend and backend of applications, ensuring a smooth user experience from start to finish. As businesses strive to deliver robust, efficient and visually appealing applications, developers and their choice of programming tools can impact the speed, scalability and overall performance of a full software solution.

Presented with choosing what development tool is best for your main, full-stack development needs, let’s discuss the benefits of Xojo development platform for your next web project. With its simplicity, flexibility, and powerful features, Xojo will help you create high-quality web applications quickly and efficiently, with the added bonus of covering backend and frontend development in the same IDE—no more language switching—while also lowering your overall costs.

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New Database Connections

While Xojo has always supported adding database connections, the old method was far from ideal. Let’s delve into the improved approach using the new DatabaseConnection project items and explore some recent additions to our database API.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Handling Text Files in Xojo

As developers, we often need to work with text files. This could be for reading configuration settings, parsing log files, or generating reports. Text files are a common part of software development, and knowing how to access and manipulate them is important for building strong and flexible Xojo applications. In this article, we will make use the key Xojo classes and techniques for working with text files. We will start by looking at how to read the contents of text files using the TextInputStream class. You will learn how to read an entire file into a string and how to process the file line-by-line.

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Version Control Ready Xojo Lite and Free Xojo Linux Lite for Everyone

Today we are pleased to announce some big changes to Xojo Lite. Beginning with Xojo 2024r1, new and existing Xojo Lite licenses are version control ready. That’s not all, now you can use Xojo’s free IDE to build Linux desktop and console apps from Linux, macOS, or Windows, no license required.

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Get Started with Xojo Lite for Only $99

Xojo Lite is designed to introduce new users to developing and building apps with Xojo. Usually $149, Xojo Lite is only $99 for a limited time.* A great way to build your first apps, Xojo Lite lets you build unlimited apps for a single platform for only $99. Build your apps for any single desktop platform, using the current Xojo release and all releases for the next 12 months.

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