To answer your first question; yes, it's possible to build dynamic apps that can countdown the seconds to zero or build a timer dynamically. The sample application: https://app.appsmith.com/app/input-widget/input-counter-reva... shows a counter. In this example, while a user is required to click a button, this can be modified to be triggered automatically every 1 sec.
It's currently not possible to power the UI via websockets yet. This is an open feature request that we are yet to implement.
Having said that, I'm sorry that Appsmith crashed for you. Were you trying us out on Appsmith Cloud (https://app.appsmith.com) or were you self-hosting Appsmith via Docker/k8s?
Please feel free to email me at arpit [at] appsmith.com & we'll help you out succeed with the product.
Started some of the templates on the cloud - crushed for more than 10 minutes
Right now, very slow. Multi-second latency with smartlook.cloud and iam-something....
Best of luck!!!
Good luck. Hope this helps.
Got a question: is it possible to operate without something like docker, on Windows? The place I would like to deploy it is a VM, and nested VMs are not a good option with what I have available.
e.g. a count down field which count down seconds to zero OR a list display with automatically updates from the source
(Ironically, i will happily spend time build a custom back end source, if AS will take care of front end)
BTW, playing with appsmith right now, it crushed and is now down for more than 15 minutes