AECtech 2025 | ShapeDiver

AECtech 2025 | NYC ShapeDiver Virtual Workshops https://shapediver.com/ A Microservice Approach to Computational Web Applications Working in Grasshopper often presents challenges regarding scaling, reusability, and collaboration. As definitions grow in complexity, maintaining, updating, and sharing logic within larger teams and across projects becomes difficult. With the latest release of ShapeDiver’s App Builder, these limitations can now be overcome through a microservice approach to computational design. This workshop introduces a new way to structure Grasshopper-based workflows by using individual definitions as modular, reusable “microservices" within a broader, complex web application. Using App Builder’s new capability to link multiple Grasshopper models inside a single web app, participants will learn to create contextual, adaptive interfaces that extend far beyond what’s possible in a single definition. Attendees will build a web application based on multiple Grasshopper definitions, connected intelligently through App Builder’s latest tools. We will see how this approach allows us to scale the complexity of computational applications while facilitating application maintenance and collaborative workflows. No coding is required, just Grasshopper skills and the secure, scalable ShapeDiver infrastructure, which makes it possible to turn Grasshopper definitions into a reliable backend for any online application. Hosts Mathieu Huard | Head of Product https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-huard-80932176/ Learn more about AECtech events at: https://www.aectech.us/ © 2025 CORE studio at Thornton Tomasetti https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/core-studio