[EPIC] Online demo version

Allow evaluation of Toolpad through an online demo. Toolpad doesn’t support authentication yet. The goal is to demonstrate a subset of the app building experience.

The demo version will be unauthenticated. We will disable all possibilities of entering sensitive data.

To Do:

• Introduce TOOLPAD_DEMO configuration to enable demo version
  • remove the applications list from the overview page. Just show the app creation dialog
  • clearly mark in the UI that demo is enabled.
  • clearly mark that the app is ephemeral and may be deleted at any time without notice. Don’t use for anything else than evaluation purposes.
  • disable all datasources
    • ~enable only the REST datasource, but disable headers/authentication. Enforce a baseurl?~
    • Expand the fake movies datasource and enable it in demo only
  • add captcha when creating application
• Currently saving the application deletes and recreates the whole app in the db, replace it with an incremental update to reduce the throughput on the database.
• host using render.com
• usage metrics: Add Google analytics?
• developer metrics:
  • database workload (Can we monitor this sufficiently on render.com)
  • application logs
  • application errors (Sentry?)
  • monitor REST dataSource requests
• Disable the “make application public” feature for the demo mode. All apps are public
• App names have to be unique. Let’s not complicate the createApp logic too much. We either add a unique id to name the user gives, or we just generate a unique name and don’t let them specify one. They can’t list their apps so what’d be the purpose of naming it anyway?
• …

[apedroferreira]

@prakhargupta1 The demo should be good to go unless there’s anything else!

[Janpot]

Should we just disable being able to create connections for now in the demo

connections are a server side thing and will become when more so when we make them global so I’d say yes