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Code-first apps

How Relpin treats every internal tool as real code with deterministic releases.

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Relpin apps are code-first internal tools. A generated app is a real TypeScript or Python project with files you can inspect, edit, and ship through a governed release path.

What code-first means

Code-first means the source project remains the authority for behavior. Studio can help author the app, OpenCode can edit the project, and templates can create a starting point, but the app still resolves to files, routes, SDK calls, and release artifacts.

This avoids the usual split between a fast builder and a fragile production handoff. The same project that previews is the project that gets released.

What Relpin governs

Relpin governs the parts that make internal tools risky in production:

  • access to tenant data
  • session and permission checks
  • preview and publish execution
  • release promotion
  • audit history
  • runtime environment scope

The app remains editable code. The platform controls the boundaries around it.

What this is not

Relpin is not a generic AI chat product and not a browser-only low-code canvas. The browser can be a rich authoring surface, but it is not the runtime authority for compile, preview, or publish.

Typical app shape

A typical Relpin app contains:

  • UI routes and components
  • server-side route handlers
  • SDK imports for auth, data, and runtime context
  • template-owned package dependencies
  • publish metadata

That shape can evolve, but the invariant stays the same: production behavior should be traceable to code and a pinned release.