Workflow Kit by Inngest

In plain words

Workflow Kit by Inngest is an open source SDK that enables developers to integrate workflow automation capabilities into their products. It allows teams to define custom actions in their backend and quickly expose a workflow user interface to end users. The toolkit is designed to provide a Zapier-like experience without requiring extensive development time, making it accessible for products that need built-in automation features.

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From the sources

Inngest’s Workflow Kit is the quickest and easiest way to add a Zapier-like workflow UI experience to your product. Define actions in your backend and expose a Workflow UI to your users in a day. Start building: inngest.com

Inngest Workflow Kit: build configurable, user-defined workflow engines with durable execution, a React UI, and a flexible action API.

Workflow Kit enables you to build user-defined workflows with Inngest by providing a set of workflow actions to the Workflow Engine while using the pre-built React components to build your Workflow Editor UI. To use it, you'll need an application with Inngest set up , ready to serve Inngest functions . Our Workflow Kit is open source and available on Github as inngest/workflow-kit . Get started with Worflow Kit by exploring our guide or cloning our Next.js template: Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use Workflow Kit to add automations to a CMS Next.js application. This Next.js template features AI workflows helping with grammar fixes, generating Table of Contents orfrom inngest.com

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