Current Mindset After Deliberation.
- Write time speed is more important than run time speed for 99% of most apps.
- Getting something working is more important than getting something perfect.
- Focus on the problem/solution of the domain and then, and only then, consider a tech stack. The tech is secondary.
- Every tool that you use has trade-offs, learn to live with it.
- Let go of wanting to know and master everything. Again circle back to whatever problem I’m trying to solve with an app and how can I go about it given my current skillset.
Thoughts on Using Wappler Going Forward
My biggest concern initially was becoming overly reliant on Wappler and being locked into a proprietary code framework, but every framework, raw code or not has some sort of lockin, in the sense that you’ll have to make the mental shift if you ever move to another language/platform. Get used to the new syntax. ect.
That includes Python/Django, PHP/Laravel, Ruby/Ruby on Rails - ect… and each of them has people that complain about certain libraries not being supported anymore ect…
Forget about the fact that there is a new Javascript framework every 12 seconds.
What excites me is the prospect of rapid app development. And at present I couldn’t find anything close to that with the amount of flexability Wappler gives.
I could go with a more traditional code framework but if I’m slower at developing apps, then there will be many times where building an app/automation just won’t even be worth it given the time necessary and the payoff to myself or a company I’m working for.
I’m confident that if I stick with Wappler that I will be able to pickup that speed.
@ben Thanks again for your thoughtful comments. One question I had for using VS code. Do you ever change/update/copy server connect/app connect code/logic in code view and when has it been useful vs using the interface?
Is there any useful resources for picking up the server connect/app connect syntax docs?
@Antony I believe you mentioned you code longer server connect in code view? How did you pick up the syntax? Is it like primarily making a certain part of the script that you’ll reuse with minor changes by coding it up in the interface and then you copy and paste it over?
@Apple You make a lot of very good points. It makes me more comfortable to invest my time into this tool.
@scalaris I apologize if I came off the wrong way. You’ve been extremely generous to this community by sharing to incredible success of your wappler project. I suppose the main thing I’d be curious to know, and forgive me if you’ve mentioned it before, but what have been the biggest challenges, frustrations of using this tool, what has been the biggest blessing? Did you consider any other tools/frameworks besides bubble before you started building?