I’ve been following this thread so thought I’d add my comments.
I’ve been working with PHP since around the year 2000 (ASP before that) and used DMXzone and Interakt for many, many years.
I see Wappler as the perfect solution to the Dreamweaver/Extensions mess that we put up with for so long. But I don’t see it as a no-code tool. You do need to have some coding experience and understand at least the fundamentals of how code works, how web pages are constructed, how hosting works, CSS, etc. But you certainly don’t need to be an expert in any of those things because Wappler really does do all the heavy lifting for you.
For me it’s an excellent tool to massively speed up the development process. Yes, I need to know how forms work. When to use POST and when to use GET (so know what the difference is). How security works (sessions, cookies, etc.) but I don’t need to know the actual code to use any of that because Wappler does it for me. This makes it incredibly quick and equally reliable. I don’t need to remember what I named the variables, they’re there in a list.
I don’t want it to be a no-code tool because that would limit it enormously. I want the ultimate flexibility.
So if you like Bubble, or other no-code tools, then that’s great but I know you will soon reach their limits and wish you’d learned more coding skills and spent more time with a tool like Wappler.
I spent a good few months struggling to understand how App Connect and Server Connect work but once I understood, there is no limit. And now I create complex forms which manipulate data, upload files, etc. in very little time.
Yes, the docs do need updating and there are certainly times when I look at something in Wappler and wonder what it does exactly but a quick post here usually gives me the answer in no time.
Please don’t think Wappler is a no-code tool. It’s advanced software which speeds up the dev process and creates beatiful and reliable code for you and you can do whatever you like to that to make sure you have exactly what you want.