user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to integrate an email automation feature into my app. Is there any way I can use Pipedream’s workflow creation UI as well as APIs to build a solution?
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Potentially, can you tell me more about what you envision?
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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I want to provide the user a way to create an email automation flow using Pipedream’s UI and then create the flow by passing that JSON to Pipedream API to create a flow.
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Can be thought as embedding your workflow editor into my app
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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So you want to embed some of the capabilities of Pipedream in your app and let your users interact with those features, then run it on their behalf?
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Right, yea you can do that in a slightly different way than how you described it — check out one of our newer products, Connect:
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Specifically, this section of the docs re: embedding triggers and actions in your app:
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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And this demo app might be interesting to you — it highlights an example implementation of how that API / SDK works:
One SDK, thousands of API integrations in your app or AI agent. Pipedream Connect provides managed authentication, approved client IDs, durable components and infratructure for running serverless functions. Delight users, grow product usage and solve...
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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I frisked this documentation. I don’t think I can integrate the UI part
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Do you have your own frontend for configuration that you’d want to use?
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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No, but I will need to make adjustments to the Pipedream frontend so that the theme matches my product
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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Yea, the idea w/ the connect-react package (that’s the SDK with the React UI components) is that it’s full customizable so you can match your brand (you can even fork it if you want)
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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ok then, i will explore these resources and get back to you
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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i checked the resources you gave
user-1
(User 1)
February 6, 2025, 6:14pm
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i think you provide individual components but i want the whole workflow creation part