Why Every App Needs a Toolshed
· Marcus Webb
Every app starts simple. Then someone asks for Slack notifications. Then webhook support. Then a Zapier integration. Before you know it, you've built a bespoke integration layer that takes more time…
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Engineering updates, product news, and technical deep-dives from the ShellApps team.
Multi-Tenant Auth Done Right
· Sarah Chen
If you're building a B2B product, you'll need multi-tenancy eventually. Getting auth right from the start saves months of painful migration later. What Multi-Tenancy Means for Auth In a multi-te…
Building Accessible Onboarding Flows with ShellApps
· James Okonkwo
First impressions matter. If your signup flow is confusing, slow, or inaccessible, you've already lost users before they've seen your product. Here's how we approach onboarding at ShellApps — and ho…
Introducing Our Engineering Hub
· Emma Liu
Good docs aren't a nice-to-have — they're the difference between a developer choosing your platform or closing the tab. Today we're launching [engineering.shellapps.com](https://engineering.shellapp…
Real-Time Error Tracking for Production Apps
· Priya Sharma
Your users will find bugs you never imagined. The question is whether you find out from them or from your error tracker. Why We Built Error Tracking into Experience Platform Most teams end up wi…
Feature Flags Without the Complexity
· Marcus Webb
Feature flags shouldn't require a PhD to set up. We built ours with that principle front and centre. The Problem with Existing Solutions Most feature flag services fall into two camps. The enter…
Zero to Auth in 5 Minutes
· Sarah Chen
Authentication is one of those things every app needs but nobody wants to build from scratch. We've spent months getting it right so you don't have to. What ShellApps Identity Gives You ShellApp…
Building Our Admin Dashboard with Next.js
· Alex Hewitt-Procter
Every SaaS company eventually needs an internal admin dashboard. Here's how we built ours. The Stack We chose Next.js 14 with the App Router for our admin dashboard. Combined with Tailwind C…
Introducing ShellApps
· Alex Hewitt-Procter
We're excited to introduce ShellApps — a suite of developer-first tools built for the modern web. What We're Building ShellApps is our answer to the growing complexity of web infrastructure.…