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Dualship is a visual API builder platform. Users create fully functional backend APIs without writing code by defining flows - JSON documents that describe how an API should behave.

Core Concept

Instead of writing code, you define APIs as flows. A flow is a JSON document that describes:
  1. Trigger - How the API is invoked (HTTP request, cron schedule)
  2. Nodes - What steps to execute in sequence
  3. Response - What to return to the caller
These flows are stored as data and interpreted at runtime. When a request comes in, the executor processes the flow in real-time. No code generation. No deployment. The API is live the moment the flow is saved.

How It Works

Key Features

Node Categories

Nodes are organized into categories: Control Flow
  • condition - If/else branching
  • switch - Multi-way branching
  • parallel - Concurrent execution
  • loop - Iteration over arrays or counts
  • try - Error handling with catch/finally
Data Manipulation
  • set - Store values in context
  • transform - Reshape and compute data
HTTP/Network
  • http - Make outbound HTTP requests
Response/Abort
  • response - Send HTTP response
  • abort - Stop flow with error
Timing
  • delay - Pause execution
Validation
  • request - Validate incoming data

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