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Retool apps tutorial: Fundamental concepts

This part covers the fundamental concepts of building a Retool app. You'll create a customer management dashboard that:

  • Retrieves customer data from an API and display it in a table.
  • Populates a form with data from the selected table row.
  • Make changes to the form's input field values and save them back to the data source.

After completing this part, you'll have the necessary knowledge to:

  • Assemble a user interface using components.
  • Connect data sources by creating resources.
  • Write query code that interacts with the data source.
  • Add event handlers to trigger actions in response to user interaction.
  • Connect queries and components to manipulate data.

Next steps

Learn how to assemble your app's user interface.