Anvil Enterprise Support

What do you like best about the product?

Anvil is incredibly easy to use, feature rich, extensible, and secure by design. The team are fantastic and have worked with me in both public and private sector to robustly prove Anvil’s worth in both rapid prototyping (there’s nothing as good) and production grade deployments.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing to dislike about Anvil.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

A range of public and private sector digital transformations from handfuls to thousands of users.

What do you like best about the product?

Productivity gains with the visual layout and database builders, web based IDE and project management, integrated ORM, Email, PDF printing, 3rd party integrations (Google and MS services, Stripe, etc.), extensibility using the full Python and web UI ecosystems, rock solid performance and reliability of the open source anvil-app-server in many challenging IT environments.

What do you dislike about the product?

The open source server is a relatively large install (>300Mb), so not the best fit for quick little scripting tasks (although the paid hosted version is fantastic for quick little scripts that run on anvil.works servers).

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Massive productivity gains in agile software development. The full suite of UI, database, and all-Python front-end/back-end interactions, with a web-based IDE, integrated GIT, autocomplete, etc. makes development work fast. Deployment in a wide variety of IT environments, with deep security and other organizational review and compliance requirements, has been 100% successful in every case.

What do you like best about the product?

Anvil abstracts away every single problem that I've faced when building applications, the hosting, authentication, databases, UI... it's all been taken care of and thought about in a way that makes sense.
If you've ever deployed streamlit with a sqlite database - just stop, go to Anvil, and never look back. It just works.

I don't have to learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript (unless I want to, there's no hard boundary), and can focus on the problem at hand in the language I know best. The team behind Anvil and the community itself are great, every person I've shown Anvil to has been wowed by how simple it is to do things that could take days the "old fashioned" way.

They have a very generous free plan for hobbyists, and an incredible Enterprise offering that I couldn't work without.

They continue to bring more and more impressive features that are taking the product in an extremely strong direction - seriously, give it a go!

What do you dislike about the product?

I have nothing bad to say about Anvil.

If anything, as someone without a background in web development, there's a slight learning curve to a few features - but that learning curve is infinitely less than that of traditional web development.

There's a bit of an art to building a scalable Anvil app, but I've found that process to be extremely smooth - everything I've built has worked, there's just a few different ways to make it work.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Anvil helps to bring our team to a more modern era. Insurance is a world driven by Excel, and whilst a lot of people have knowledge in Python, they don't have the time to learn how to deploy their applications securely, let alone figure out how to connect everything together. That's the gap Anvil fills for us. It's like an entire infrastructure team built into a website.

What do you like best about the product?

1. Python at both ends
2. an incredible, integrated IDE
3. built in database/web server, etc. (but you can use your own as well)
4. host on their managed servers or run your apps on a self hosted open source application server
5. if you really want to, you can also develop using your favourite editor (vscode, pycharm, etc.)
6. I find support very helpful (but I do try hard to provide meaningful and helpful issue reports).

Just because its a rapid development environment, do not think it's suitable only for toy apps or MVPs. I and many others build full, mission critical, customer facing apps that get heavy use.

What do you dislike about the product?

Hard to answer this one, because there's almost nothing. I've been using Anvil since the early days and nearly all my niggles have been addressed. If I have to name one, I'd say the documentation search feature is a little tricky sometimes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed of development in a secure, full stack environment. For my use case, Anvil is a perfect fit.

What do you like best about the product?

Anvil makes it dead simple to get a web app deployed to the web. It is Python native (uses Skulpt on the client side) and has a Postgres backed integrated database with their own ORM. This makes it super fast to get going.

I have used Anvil to make very simple apps and very complex apps. Both are possible but the amazing thing is that the simple apps are very easy to get going. Anvil allows you a minimum amount of boilerplate (they generate it for you). When you need to make a complex app, you have the power of Python to create abstractions that are readable and reusable.

When my business needs an app up and running TODAY, Anvil is what enables this.

What do you dislike about the product?

Really the only dislike I have about Anvil is the database speed. It isn't actually slow, but it's not as fast as you would get with your own database server. You can always connect your own database and use a Python library on the server side to connect to it. So there are ways around this.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Anvil has solved the internal (and even external) app issue for our enterprises. We are able to make custom web apps fast and reliably.