Hello everyone,
I am also joining Wappler from Bubble and it has been 2 months since I started learning Wappler, or I should say real web development.
I find this forum pretty helpful, I was able to learn Docker, db management and server actions and use these in my project without needing to ask any question so far, therefore I am grateful to the community and people who share their knowledge.
So this will be my first question, please excuse my language as I am not native and naive questions.
I bought “clean” bootstrap admin template through themeforest even though I read about those templates being not worthy due to all the extra scripts it comes with. My motivation was to learn how overall design blocks are done normally by reading the code and trying to understand. It helped me a lot so far and I thought it worth for 15$.
Template comes with an assets folder, which includes bootstrap, icons, fonts libraries as well as jquery libraries (slimscroll, modernizr, horizantal-menu etc.) alongside with bunch of js plugins.
I couldn’t dare to find all links pointing to assets folder and change it to right location in my existing project so I just deleted bootstrap and style folder. I ended up with following project folder;
If I continue to my project and just add server connect to my pages, would I get any error or problem as long as I use code panel to design? In other words, is this worth to pursue or should I just clean my project and try to recreate these pages through design panel Wappler provides?
We have come across this several times and its pretty annoying to be honest. We work-around it by updating the location of the themes Bootstrap files to the Wappler expected structure (by using Wappler Frameworks and adding Bootstrap 4 local to the pages), we then paste in the themes original Bootstrap files and tell Wappler to ignore the Bootstrap folder (when FTP is selected it won’t be uploaded, we do this manually) we then keep a backup of the theme Bootstrap files and paste them in every now and again as Wappler likes to update them automatically, but of course we don’t want that to happen. Bit of a pain in the arse but will allow you to see the structure correctly within Wappler itself.
No idea if the new Theme Manager allows custom replacements or not? Haven’t used it yet as we are working with Desktop and Mobile Projects and as far as I know it’s not supported in these areas yet?
Having used a template, not created in Wappler, you would at the very least need to include the App Connect framework. I would also include a local version of Wappler’s Bootstrap.
The, to keep within Wappler’s structure, move the Template files to where Wappler expects to find them, e.g. the Bootstrap files in the Bootstrap folder, renaming them to the Wappler naming convention. This replaces the Bootstrap files created by Wappler.
The icons and images can remain in the Assets folder.
