Learn to enable language (text) translation without code in your Backendless app by integrating with a translator app via the Translate by Zapier app.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. In this article, we show how easy it is to integrate a translation service into your Backendless app using Zapier integration. Backendless is incredibly feature-rich, but no platform can cover every niche use case. That’s why Backendless has a Zapier integration, allowing you to access thousands of third-party tools and quickly integrate them into your Backendless app. For this demo, we will be building a simple translation app. The purpose of the app is to take user-entered text and translate it into the user’s selected language. We will start on the Backendless side of the equation. Here, we will set up a single-function app with a database. You can easily integrate the functionality we show here into another application. The demo application’s database table is very simple and consists of two fields: demoText and language. The demoText field will store the text that needs to be translated as well as any text that has already been translated. The language field will store the value of the language to which you want to translate the text. The app user interface consists of a Select element, an Input element, and “Reset” and “Save and translate” Buttons. When you click on the “Save and translate” button, the following actions are performed in the logic below: Note that we also include logic to disable the “Save and translate” button while the translation is in progress.
