Show & Tell: Auto-Converting Workshop Dashboards to Live React Apps

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All,

I wanted to share a cool internal tool we recently built at Object Edge to accelerate our custom frontend development on top of Foundry.

We often find that while Workshop is a fantastic operational assistant for internal workflows, we frequently need to build custom user interfaces in React for external use cases. To speed up our development cycle, we created an extension that takes a Workshop layout and automatically generates a React application.

Here is the post on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/object-edge_turn-a-palantir-workshop-into-a-live-react-activity-7468739348956585984-SWFX?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAM4KkBnKmkKO8C-_xYyUEQdslmweIqodk

Here is a quick look at how it works:

  • The extension grabs the active Workshop ID and your Foundry environment URL.

  • With one click, it translates the UI components (like pie charts, bar charts, and data tables) into a React codebase.

  • It automatically wires up the connection using Palantir OAuth, meaning the new React app immediately queries the same dataset.

  • In our demo video, you can see a “Vehicles Dashboard” with interactive filters port over to localhost seamlessly, maintaining full functionality.

We’ve found this to be a massive time-saver for bootstrapping external apps and ensuring UI parity. I’ve linked a sneak preview video of the tool in action above.

I’d love to hear how other teams in the community are managing their Workshop-to-custom-app workflows!

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