There is a popular showcase on the forums for a dictionary app with 163,819 rows. This utilized the best tricks at the time to create a way to search a dictionary dataset. The biggest issue is the lag between entering in a word and seeing the responses.
What’s New?
Glide has released some awesome new features that allow us to make better more responsive apps. In particular for this app, we now have:
Nice, the problem is, the data is not in sheet’s, so you don’t have control what is showing to the app user, unlike my dictionary app… i have downloaded whole data to my sheet and glide app is managing it.
We know Glide documentation on Experimental Column makes it clear that anything on Replit can be accessed by anyone on the internet. However, if we don’t want anybody to be able to have access to our API/secret passwords/tokens, there is way to keep them a secret by creating an environment variable. Replit has a special way of doing that called a .env file. Anything in an .env file is hidden from the rest of the world. Any other file/script is public, except anything stored in the .env file.