What are some benefits that Apps have over Extensions?

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What are some benefits that Apps have over Extensions? 


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What are some benefits that Apps have over Extensions? 

 

  • Apps allow the developer to modify and extend the stacks with more security, scalability and flexibility. 
  • Apps can be shared across multiple Stacks and Organization.
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Ease of use is a huge benefit of Apps over Extensions. They can be found, installed and managed from the Marketplace. Apps also provide an interactive UI to help manage configurations from that centralized location. In addition, apps have more security features and are more scalable than extensions are.

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  1. The ability to pack and install multiple instances from a single app saves time rolling out new features or keeping security up to date.
  2. The added scalability & security of apps is an improvement over extensions
  3. Quickly rolling things out greatly enhances the developer experience
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Ease of Use - Contentstack apps are much easier to develop, distribute, and discover.

Developer Friendly - Apps minimizes the efforts that developers have to put into developing, deploying, and maintaining a solution.

Packaging UI Locations - Extensions are now added as UI Locations inside an app. This lets you pack and install multiple instances of UI locations from a single app, which means that a single app can be used as a custom field, sidebar extension, dashboard extension, etc.

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Contentstack apps are much easier to develop, distribute, and discover.

Apps can be easily located, installed, and managed from the Marketplace.

Apps minimizes the efforts that developers have to put into developing, deploying, and maintaining a solution.

Apps offer more security features and are scalable than extensions.

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Contentstack apps provides an interactive UI to manage your custom app configuration from a centralized location.

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Apps are much easier to develop, distribute and discover.

Use an elegant UI to manage your custom app configuration from a centralized place.

Multiple instances of similar UI Locations can be packaged and installed from a single App.

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Here are a few important points that explain how apps can prove beneficial over extensions.

 

Ease of Use

  • Contentstack apps are much easier to developdistribute, and discover.
  • Apps can be easily located, installed, and managed from the Marketplace.
  • Contentstack apps provides an interactive UI to manage your custom app configuration from a centralized location.

Developer Friendly

  • Apps minimizes the efforts that developers have to put into developing, deploying, and maintaining a solution.
  • With apps, developers can build complex functionalities in less time with better features.
  • Developers can effortlessly share app related upgrades with the customers.
  • Customers can use the latest and best version of the solution with updated app features from the Marketplace.
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The ease of usage of apps versus extensions is a significant advantage. The Marketplace is where you may look for, download, and manage them. The interactive user interface (UI) that apps offer makes it possible to manage configurations from a single spot. Apps are also more scalable and offer more security features than extensions do.

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