Your essential APEX companion

APEX developers of all skills inevitably have to write JavaScript and CSS. Do you feel the learning curve to be steep? That is 100% normal. Barely any guidelines exist within APEX to learn the fundamentals of these languages. Let’s fix that.

APEX Nitro takes your front-end development to the next level by reducing mundane tasks, boosting performance, modularizing code, enhancing teamwork and more.

APEX Nitro is a tool that runs in the background while you develop an APEX application, watching for local static file (e.g. js, css) modifications inside of a given directory, compiling them into a better format and sending them back to your APEX application seamlessly. It makes front-end coding faster by syncing these local files to your APEX application in real-time.

APEX Nitro also establishes clear front-end guidelines and enforces good programming practices. It streamlines JavaScript and CSS by eliminating the bad practice of inline coding, so your APEX application benefits from an efficient 100% file-based approach.

• Browser Synchronization
• File Minification
• File Concatenation
• Source Mapping
• Error Handling
• CSS Preprocessing
• CSS Auto-Prefixer
• Theme Roller Customization

For more info on the features, read the documentation.

• Reduce development time
• Reduce mundane tasks
• Increase maintainability
• Better modularization
• Performance boost
• Enhances teamwork
• Makes responsive development easier

For more info on the benefits, read the documentation.

This following sections show the easiest way to get started with APEX Nitro.

Go to the full documentation to read more about using APEX Nitro.

• Node.js
• SQLcl >= v17.2 (optional, used for the publish feature)

Execute this command to install APEX Nitro:

npm install -g apex-nitro

Getting errors? Make sure to read the troubleshooting section.

Execute this command to configure an APEX Nitro project:

apex-nitro config <project>

A new browser tab will open and you can simply fill the form:

You can read about the different options by hovering the help icons.

APEX Nitro requires to make one small modification to your APEX application to allow real-time synchronization. Head to Shared Components, under Application Processes and create a new application process with the following attributes:

Read the documentation for more information.

apex-nitro launch <project>

After APEX Nitro is launched, create, edit or delete any file within your project's source folder. Example /my_project/src/:

|-/src/
   |-css
      |-app.css
   |-js
      |-app.js

APEX Nitro will compile your files to a new folder of your choice. Example /my_project/dist/. APEX Nitro will then synchronize the compiled folder (/my_project/dist/) to your APEX application.

Read more about usage.
See common patterns.
Try our examples.

When you are done developing, you can upload your files to the Shared Components in APEX.

apex-nitro publish <project>

This feature is optional. Read more to get SQLcl running on your environment.

Read more about common issues.

See changelog.

Insum Solutions

• Vincent Morneau
• Martin Giffy D'Souza