Welcome to our dev guides

IoT development can be hard, but we want to make it as easy as possible.

We know this is not an easy undertaking, especially because there are many layers involved in an IoT project, from hardware to the cloud. We can only act on the last one: the application layer. That said, we put a lot of care into understanding the full IoT development process, and we hope these guides help you through it.

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These guides are categorized as follows:

• Dashboards: Our drag-and-drop IoT dashboards are often called "codeless," but that doesn't mean they lack customization. Check these guides to learn how to extend the power of Ubidots dashboards.

📊Dashboards & widgets

• UbiFunctions: Our serverless environment has grown from a custom decoding tool into an integration and analytics powerhouse. It deserves a chapter of its own.

🤖UbiFunctions

• Plugins: Plugins are purpose-built extensions that add specialized capabilities to your Ubidots account. Learn how to develop, deploy, and use both public and private plugins to tailor the platform to your project's needs.

🧩Plugins

• Synthetic Variables: Synthetic Variables let you define mathematical and statistical expressions over your time-series data to compute derived values without writing a single backend service. These guides walk you through the editor, the available expression types, and practical examples to help you extract greater meaning from your data.

📈Synthetic variables

• Developer Tools: Whether you prefer working in code or on the command line, Ubidots provides the tooling to build and automate programmatically. These guides cover the JavaScript SDK, the CLI, and the dashboard runtime library, giving you the building blocks to integrate Ubidots deeply into your own development workflows.

⌨️Developer tools

• Custom IoT Applications: Ubidots isn't just a dashboard — it's a platform for building fully branded IoT applications. These guides show you how to compose multi-page apps, configure a custom sidebar menu, and apply CSS styling so that the end product feels like your own, not a third-party tool.

🏗️Custom IoT applications

We'll continue to add more guides and categories. In the meantime, make sure you check out our Help Center!

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