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Short, practical reads on building full-stack apps with Grit, a new one most mornings. Getting started, CRUD in one command, framework comparisons, and production tips.

Build a storefront with Grit
Tutorial · August 16, 2026

A complete ecommerce build for someone who learned Grit last week: catalogue, product variants, cart, Stripe checkout, order tracking for customers, and an admin your operations team can actually run the business from. Every command is one you can paste, every snippet says which file it belongs in, and the parts Grit does not do for you are named rather than glossed over.

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Your table, our machinery
Announcement · August 12, 2026

You bought a dashboard template and you want its pages in your admin, without giving up URL-synced sorting, paging, filters, selection, bulk actions, toasts and cache invalidation. Grit's customisation system in eight levels, from patching one cell to replacing the page. For each one: what you get by default, why you would want to change it, and exactly how, with every snippet labelled with the file it belongs in.

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Compliance you didn't have to build: GDPR erasure and access reviews
Security · July 28, 2026

Two admin surfaces every Grit app already ships with, a GDPR export/erase toolkit backed by a tamper-evident deletion journal, and access reviews that snapshot every role assignment for recertification. What they do, and the question that actually matters: how do they get populated?

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Build an invoice app with Grit in ten minutes
Tutorial · July 27, 2026

A hands-on build that uses every one of Grit's new pieces in context, a Cloudflare-style theme, belongs_to and line-item relations, dropdown and toggle fields that carry their own options, atomic invoice numbering, the column you forgot added in place, and a Print button that was already there. One resource at a time, one command each, with a link to the docs for every step.

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Grit plugins: what they are, the default ones, and how to build your own
Announcement · July 21, 2026

A Grit plugin doesn't hide in node_modules, it generates real code into your repo: models, routes, pages, migrations. And because every install is recorded, it's the one thing most plugin systems can't do: cleanly uninstall. Here's the model, the first-party plugins, and how to write one.

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Grit ships roles, permissions, and automatic database backups, by default
Security · July 20, 2026

Every new Grit app now comes with a real authorization model (roles, granular per-resource permissions, and a permission editor that works on web, mobile and desktop) plus scheduled database backups you can restore with one click. No wiring. It's just there when you run grit new.

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Build a full offline-first POS with Grit: products, stock, clients, purchases & a real checkout
Tutorial · July 9, 2026

One command scaffolds a Wails desktop app that works online AND offline. grit generate resource fans out to the desktop too now: full CRUD screens backed by a local SQLite mirror that syncs to your server when you're connected. We build a real Point of Sale: categories, products, stock, clients, suppliers, purchases, and a custom checkout screen that completes sales and decrements stock even with no internet.

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Build a mobile store with Grit: generate resource → shoppable app
Tutorial · July 3, 2026

Point grit generate resource at your Expo app and it scaffolds typed hooks, list + detail screens, and the plumbing for a real store. We wire a Category → Product shopping flow with similar products in one sitting.

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Build your first Grit app: a full-stack store
Tutorial · July 2, 2026

In one sitting: scaffold a Category → Product store, handle image uploads, model a one-to-many relationship, and manage all of it from a generated admin panel.

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Why I built Grit
Announcement · July 1, 2026

I kept rebuilding the same backend on every project (auth, roles, audit trails, rate limiting, storage, OTP, email, cache, jobs) before ever touching the actual product. So I combined all of it into one thing, on Go.

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JB, Creator of Grit
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Founder of Grit and author of The Daily Grit. A 5-minute morning read on building full-stack apps with Go + React.

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