The developer docs are decent once you know your way around, but they assume you already know which parts matter. If you don’t, it’s hard to tell where to start.
Anna Larch from our DevRel team is doing a virtual workshop for exactly that gap. How an app is put together, where your code is supposed to live, and what the platform already does for you so you don’t rebuild it. She pulls examples from Talk, Dashboard, and other apps.
What’s covered:
- What actually happens between a request hitting your app and a response going out
OCP\vsOC\.OCP\is the public API you’re meant to build against.OC\is Nextcloud’s internals, and reaching into it is the single most common reason an app dies on the next upgrade- Entities, mappers, migrations
- Listening for events from other apps, plus background jobs
- Live Q&A
When:
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 3:00 PM CEST / 9:00 AM EDT.
60 minutes, free, recorded. Registrants get the replay.
Register: [Workshop] From zero to your first Nextcloud app
Anything specific you want to us to cover? Any questions to answer? Feel free to comment on this thread, we’ll collect them and answer them during the workshop.