What is App Maker?

App Maker is a powerful tool that allows you to create custom apps for Atlassian products, without having to write or deploy any of your own custom code.

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Why App Maker?

App Maker offers product customization without the complexity of custom code.

Customise For Your Business Needs

While Atlassian products are highly configurable, even configuration powerhouses like Jira can't cater to every need a complex organization might have.

Avoid The Complexity of Custom Code

Atlassian provides tools like Forge for customers and marketplace partners to create custom plugins and extensions for products like Jira and Confluence.

However, these powerful tools come with trade-offs:

• They have steep learning curves, requiring significant time and effort to master.
• They demand a deep understanding of the Atlassian ecosystem and its underlying technologies.
• They involve writing, deploying, and maintaining custom code, which is a non-starter for many organizations due to security, compliance, or resource constraints.

The Best Of Both Worlds

App Maker is designed to find the sweet spot between simple "UI-only" configuration and the power of custom-coded plugins and extensions, while avoiding the typical pitfalls of "no-code" app builders.

How Does It Work?

App Maker is neither a "no-code" nor a "code-based" app builder. Confused? Stick with us!

App Maker is a "data-based" app builder.

If you understand what a JSON object is, you understand everything you need to build apps with App Maker.

Every app created with App Maker essentially boils down to a series of JSON objects. These objects describe your app's structure, appearance, data usage, and logic execution.

What Can It Do?

The range of things you can build with App Maker is only limited by your imagination. Its capabilities make it suitable for everything from simple use cases to fully dynamic applications.

Some ideas to get you started:

• Simple Static UI Widgets
  • Company-wide notification banners
  • Policy reminders for support agents when responding to tickets
  • Basic informational displays on Jira Issues
• Moderate Complexity Apps with Dynamic Content
  • Custom widgets displaying live data from Jira Issue custom fields, to help your teams track information unavailable in the standard Jira UI
• Sophisticated Apps with External Data Integration
  • Display customer-specific data from your CRM or billing system to support agents when they're working on an issue for a particular customer
  • Streamline feature flag creation by capturing information on Jira Issues and automatically setting them up in your feature flag management system

All of these things are possible with App Maker... So, what are you waiting for?