How Fast Can You Build Apps? And Career Advice for a Newbie Developer

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@Temoran

For the most experienced devs with a traditional coding background, has Wappler really 2-10x sped up your workflow?

For me it made development more enjoyable - can’t really say anything about time as I haven’t measured those metrics

@Temoran

How would you rate your traditional coding skills before picking up Wappler?

Very good

@Temoran

Are there projects where you’d consider forgoing Wappler and build something out with a tradional coding tech stack? Where are the edge cases?

Yes, I particularly deal with a lot of data and data processing, and Wappler isn’t really the best at that - be it lack of performance or bugs when handling less usual data structures. In my day job I use Go and I’m very happy with it. For standard web development I still use Wappler. Also, I couldn’t see myself building Facebook’s back-end with Wappler, Laravel still has better practices (e.g.: ORM) than Wappler in my opinion (except for the front-end, Wappler would be fine for that)

@Temoran

If I wanted to pick up traditional coding, how would that best be paired with learning Wappler.

It’s my opinion one should learn how “real” developers build web apps, so they can later understand the limitations of Wappler or even work around and create Wappler extensions.
I come from a Laravel (PHP) background, so for that you have Laracasts and Codecourse. You could also learn something else like Flask. Actually, go on Youtube and search for the CS50 playlist, and you’ll learn some of the foundations of computer science and web development along the way

@Temoran

Where and how are you using traditional coding in your Wappler projects? Ect.

Meet Wappler extensions:

Wappler Extensions

Personally, I still use regular coding for building some internal APIs that are then connected like through HTTP (Wappler’s API Action), because of that data processing thing I do.