Back in 2011 or so, I was a Dreamweaver dev using a set of extensions by a company in Eastern Europe that produced dynamic PHP web sites. I don’t remember the name of the extensions but know Adobe bought out the European company and eventually killed off the product. Before that I used Ultradev and was creating ASP stuff.
Anyway, I’ve since retired but have been getting the itch to create some stuff again and ran across Wappler. I’m just curious if the concepts are still pretty similar to what they were. How much trouble am I going to have to get back up to speed? (Yeah, I know there’s been some changes - the whole NodeJS stuff is new to me, etc.) Still, will it take much time to get back in the swing of things?
Hi Rick,
You’re probably referring to InterAKT, the Romanian company which was acquired by Adobe some years ago.
You can achieve the same interAKT products offered and even more - your choice, whether to use PHP or NodeJS.
The interface and workflows in Wappler for its server-side logic are a bit different than what they used to be in DW with interAKT extensions, but once you understand the logic it should be pretty easy to do whatever you need.
I used InterAKT for many years and then ADDT (Adobe Dreamweaver Developer Toolkit) after Adobe acquired it. The main difference you need to get used to is the server-side API and the client-side App Connect. With InterAKT it was just server-side scripts and no API.
Wappler handles this superbly so once you get the hang of it, you will fly.
In essence, the API does the server-side stuff taking inputs and returning JSON. The client-side sends the data to that API and then handles the responses. Wappler makes the building of the APIs very easy and logical and the data/variables are available to the client-side page developing making the two work hand in hand.
