Best Practices

Showpad wants your custom Showpad App to be spectacular. While you're in total control of the design and development of your app, we've come up with a few best practices to take into consideration:

• Be sure you're familiar with Showpad concepts and terminology.

• Have clearly defined goals and requirements for your app.

• Use the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle.

• Be consistent and use standardized naming conventions.

• Make your code as easy to understand as possible for easy collaboration.

• Keep your DOM (Document Object Model) as lean as possible. Hide/remove elements you are not using.

• Showpad Apps are shown in an iframe, so you should make sure your viewport dimensions and overflow are set up correctly. When possible, use a responsive design.

• Don’t rely on asset IDs. They can be different on different platforms.

• Some functions are not available on all platforms. Put them in a try-catch and handle these cases gracefully.

• Test, test, test (in your Showpad instance).