@ben, what @scalaris has done and been willing to share is super inspirational and an impressive use of wappler.
I was just hoping to stir up a little more discussion in that vein about how Wappler has positively impacted their workflow and and maybe what they were doing before.
@ben I know wappler uses server connect/app connect frameworks. That being said, if I’m understanding what you’re saying, when you were using the PHP server model, you were also able to write boilerplate PHP code? I imagine then with the NodeJS server model I could write vanilla javascript in the code view if whatever reason I needed to. Or am I actually right in that I’d need to use @JonL write javascript extension for that?
I’m certainly thrilled at the idea of being able to extend wappler and it being extensible.
It’s hard as a new person in this field.
For one, although I will pretend to know very little, it seems from the outside that a lot of people on youtube that teach or have anything to do with coding get too infatuated with the tech and lose sight of actually using the framework/code ect to solve real problems.
@Apple to build off of what you said. Let’s say I build an app in wappler with this setup.
Bootstrap
App Connect (Their variant of a Vue, React, Angular Equivalent framework)
Server Connect (Express JS or PHP Server Framework Equivalent)
NodeJS
Postgresql
I had thought about watching tutorials on those underlying technologies and then maybe something similar to Server Connect/App Connect like react ect?
Maybe then having a better understanding of those tools would help me appreciate more what wappler is doing and use them in a more constructive way? Maybe spend some time learning design patterns that can be applied with wappler or any other dev environment?
But It’s hard. I want to push what I know so that the circle of problems I can solve increases, but I know if I don’t apply what I learned immediately on a project basis I’ll forget it. The catch 22 is, sometimes you often don’t know that a solution is even possible or in the realm of reason if you don’t have enough knowledge of the tools.