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Extending SolidX

Guide to extending SolidX with custom code generation and frontend/backend customization.

Mental Model

Extending SolidX is about deciding where to keep the platform default behaviour and where to introduce project-specific logic.

  • Generated code gives you a strong starting structure.
  • Frontend customization lets you tailor the user experience and module-specific UI.
  • Backend customization lets you add domain logic, integrations, and behaviour beyond the generated defaults.

So the intuition is: SolidX gives you a metadata-driven base, and this section explains the supported places where you should extend it instead of fighting the framework.

This section outlines how to extend SolidX to build your own functional modules, such as a school-fees-portal.

SolidX offers a powerful code generation tool that enables rapid scaffolding of new modules with all the essential boilerplate. This accelerates your development by letting you focus directly on your specific business logic, without worrying about foundational setup.

In addition to scaffolding, SolidX supports deep customization across both frontend and backend layers. You can tailor UI components, introduce new features, or adjust the behavior of existing elements to match your application's needs.

Customization Capabilities

SolidX provides the following extensibility features:

Generated Code

  • Quickly scaffold new modules using the SolidX code generation tool.
  • Auto-generates:
    • Controllers
    • Services
    • Entities
    • Data Transfer Objects
    • Layout JSON files (for UI configuration)
  • The default layout supports:
    • List View
    • Form View

Frontend Customization

  • Modify the generated layout.json to:
    • Customize list views
    • Tailor form layouts
    • Configure kanban boards
    • Add custom UI behaviors

Backend Customization

  • Extend the NestJS backend by adding:
    • Custom services and controllers
    • Computed providers
    • Middleware or interceptors
    • Business-specific logic

By leveraging these capabilities, you can build modular, scalable, and highly customized applications using the SolidX framework.

List of Values

Metadata schema for defining list of values in SolidX applications.

Code Generation

Understand generated backend code in SolidX, how the CLI updates it, and the frontend conventions followed by solid-ui modules.

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Customization Capabilities