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The App Management API is in beta. Its endpoints and responses may change.
The App Management API lets you manage your Base44 apps programmatically with a workspace API key. Use it to deploy an app from your own scripts and pipelines instead of the Base44 online app editor. Use the App Management API to:
  • Deploy an app to production from a CI or CD pipeline.
  • Publish an app’s current version, or a specific earlier saved version.
  • Automate releases across the apps in your workspace.

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Prerequisites

  • A workspace on a Business or Enterprise plan.
  • A workspace API key with the Deploy apps (apps:deploy) scope, granted access to the app you want to deploy. See Authentication to create one.

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Checkpoints

As you build an app in the Base44 online app editor, Base44 saves versioned snapshots of it called checkpoints. A checkpoint captures the full state of your app at a point in time, both the code and the configuration that define how it works. Because it is a complete snapshot, you can publish it to production or roll your app back to it later. Publishing a checkpoint does not change your saved checkpoints. It only changes which version production serves. Base44 creates checkpoints automatically as you build.
  • The AI builder saves a checkpoint each time it applies changes from a chat message, named after that message.
  • Editing your app directly in the editor saves those changes as a checkpoint.
  • Syncing code from a connected GitHub repository creates a checkpoint.
  • Applying a security scan fix creates a checkpoint before the change is made.
Each checkpoint belongs to a single branch of your app. A branch is a separate line of work, similar to a Git branch, that keeps unfinished changes out of your live app. Production always serves your main branch, so a checkpoint created on a feature branch cannot be published directly. Merge the branch into your main line first, then publish.
A checkpoint is not a Git commit. It references the commit that holds your app’s code at that moment, but it also captures your app’s configuration and metadata, so it snapshots more than code alone.

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App ID

Endpoints that act on a specific app include the app’s ID in the URL path as app_id. To get your app ID:
  1. Go to app.base44.com.
  2. Open your app in the app editor.
  3. Copy the app ID from the editor URL: "https://app.base44.com/apps/<app_id>/editor".