Hello guys, I am new here and have not subsribed yet. My biggest question is: can I cancel ANY month without hurdles? Ok quick intro:
JAVA dev guy here, SpringBoot, bit of Angular
Certified Outsystems engineer
Done some Android apps, played with JHIPSTER
Hands on experience with 3 low code tools (Outsystems, Betty Blocks and Thinkwise)
I've seen low code fail at my IT company, because of Vendor lockin
Been looking around for years for low code solutions without the crazy monthly fees and Wappler looks exciting to me: developer based, no crazy fees, RAD oriented, PLUS it seems you can build websites as well as true web applications (you know, forms databases, lists, crud).
What I would very much like to do is get a POC together for myself, in the first subscription month, same case I have done with Outsystems, JAVA and JHipster. For comparison and evaluation. Specs are as follows:
Company Laptop registration:
LaptopLeaseContracts
-- ContractTextCode (points to a couple of standard contract texts)
-- User
-- Laptop
------ Screensize
------ Brand
CRUD for everything plus the contract must have a signature field. Once contract is signed and saved, contract must be automatically emailed to user. We could run this (on Outsystems but JAVA too) perfectly from a tablet, and used this as showcase to convince potential customers.
You think this is doable? I'm slightly worried that I didn't find a signature component while glancing around here.
Best regards, Bas
PS: Wappler seems to tick a lot of boxes for me, and I have been looking around hard!
I've never used most of what you've listed but can give you a quick answer on your requirements of Wappler and it's basically yes!
In a nutshell, Wappler creates the back-end code (NodeJS, PHP or ASP) so that's the API. And it creates the front-end code (html, css, javascript in it's own framework called App Connect) which talks to the API code. It brings the two together within the software UI so it makes it very fast for creating dynamic pages/sites/apps.
There are loads of videos on YouTube now which walk you through the various features.
And the codes that's generated is complete and yours so there's no lock-in. If you were to cancel your Wappler subscription then the sites and apps you've created will continue to work, they just won't get updates of the frameworks and you would have to edit the files in a text editor and would lose all the UI functionality which is what makes it so fast and easy. And it works with a number of different database types (I've stuck with MySQL/MariaDB for everything).
The signature component shouldn't be an issue. If I'm understanding you correctly then I've created a signature field in a Wappler project but just manually adding the necessary javascript and it saves the graphic in the database along with the rest of the data.
This community is great so post questions when you have them and I'm sure you've be up and running quickly. A month might be tight to fully get to grips with it but then you might suss it all out within a week.
Thanks Jon, well maybe I will do an in between step and make a one table crud app, to get a feel for it. Thank you for your answer, yes I very much noticed that there is no lock-in. Most low code sites require you to run the apps on THEIR hardware (I immediately lose interest, been there done that).
Talking of CRUD, I've done a couple of demonstrations showing how easy it is to do in Wappler. Here's one from last year which hopefully gives you a flavour. Full CRUD in little over 20 minutes.
