Glossary
The words used across Web Apps, from app and automation to version and webhook.
Last updated September 17, 2026
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Admin | A user of your app with the admin role. Separate from your Praxivara account. |
| API key | A credential for calling your app's REST API. Secret keys live on servers; publishable keys can live in a page. |
| Automation | A backend function run on a schedule, once, or when data changes. |
| Backend function | Server-side code your app runs for work that must not happen in the browser. |
| Build | One compile of your app. Every build is a version. |
| Builder | The chat that designs and writes your app. |
| Dashboard | The tabs where you look after an app: Users, Database, Analytics, Marketing, Domains, Security, Automations, Code, Logs, API, Secrets and Settings. |
| Entity | A table in your app's database. |
| Intake form | A contact, enquiry, waitlist or RSVP form a visitor can submit without signing in. |
| Permission | Who may read or write a table. Checked on the server on every request. |
| Preview | Your app running in the builder, always the latest build, signed in as you. |
| Publish | Putting the latest build live at your app's address. |
| Secret | An encrypted value, such as a key for an outside service, readable only by backend functions. |
| SEO and GEO | Being found by search engines, and by AI assistants. |
| Turn | One message to the builder and the work it does in response. |
| Version | A saved build. The live version is the last one you published. |
| Visibility | Who can open the published app: anyone, invited people, or only you. |
| Webhook | An address at your app that another service calls when something happens. |
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