What the users think about Wappler

George · August 28, 2018, 10:28am

Let me share some great feedback that we have received from our Wappler users!

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Chad McComas (@drymetal)

As the CEO of an agency, I’ve always had to ask myself how we can become more efficient, cut overhead, get new employees onboarded quickly, and keep pushing quality forward. Where web design & development is concerned, this has always been a thorn in my side.

That brings me to Wappler. Specifically, where does Wappler fit in this giant cobweb of builders and does it finally meet the call for a web building program that does everything well? The answer is yes, but let’s look at why this is a little deeper.

First, consider that a CMS is really just a CRUD application, right? You can create, read, update, and delete content with the added benefit of making it look pretty. As we become more and more reliant on the internet, we need the ability to innovate the way the web works – and dynamic content is where that is happening. Dynamic content is critical.

Wappler breaks out of the mold of these systems and allows the user full control over dynamic development. In fact, I cannot think of a single mainstream website that couldn’t be built with Wappler. This is incredible power to be had and the fact that it simplifies all this power is amazing.

Second you also have a very powerful CSS designer, as well as Framework 7 and Bootstrap 4. And none of this is limited or stripped down either. You are getting full-blown capability in Wappler to do what you want and to top it all off – you don’t need a single plugin to do it. In fact, let me put it this way: Every system or program I’ve ever used – I can do what that system specialized in with Wappler. And when I had to hand-code entire sites before because there wasn’t a solution available – I can do that also. This is fantastic and one thing I really love about Wappler is that it generates clean code that is not only secure, but that follows best practices as well.

Wappler also has a very fair licensing model, and more importantly, a very dedicated team that is active with their community daily. This last part is important because they listen to what their users say. If you want to see an addition put into Wappler or have a great suggestion, there is a strong likelihood that it will see the light of day.

What you should take away from this is that Wappler is a new program and already it can do significantly more than everything else out there. As I said, Wappler is also updated regularly with the intent of evolving rather than just bug fixes, and often these updates include user input.

If you want a program that can take your development to the next level - while cutting down on costs and improving efficiency – then Wappler is a great choice for you and your

One Month in, me and my views on Wappler

Ben Pleysier (@ben)

As a beta tester for Dreamweaver, it was clear to see the frustrations coming from the DMXzone team having to rely on Adobe’s unpredictable and uninformed behaviour.

Arrive Wappler. At first I was convinced that Wappler was no more than Dreamweaver with DMXzone extensions. I knew what Dreamweaver could do, Wappler was an unknown where I had to constantly make sure that the code was what I wanted. It took me three times as long to create a site in Wappler than it did in Dreamweaver. As such I used Wappler more as a learning exercise in my spare time.

How wrong I was! Just load Dreamweaver and Wappler to see what I mean. Using Dreamweaver, I dreaded having to make small changes to the site. Waiting for Dreamweaver to load took longer than having to make the modification. Wappler loads instantly which has turned a burden into a pleasure.

So, in my view, what is Wappler? It combines the best of Dreamweaver’s extensions with a modern, lean IDE with even more to come. My zeal has come true!

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Paul Strydom (@psweb)

Up until Wappler I have been going into Dreamweaver making a new page, inserting whatever DMX | Zone functionality I needed, then closing it all down, opening my file in Espresso and doing everything in code from there. I am a control freak and I own it.

Wappler to be honest also makes some edits, but it is Wappler edits, to Wappler extensions, in Wappler code, in the Wappler application, so i trust that what it does is not breaking things. Kind of like buying a car and taking it to the manufacturer for services, when something goes wrong I am not listening to stories of how mechanic X did this and having to prove who is wrong and who is right. With Wappler I feel this sense of trust, plus it is transparent, I can see what it is doing in front of my eyes, if I do not like it, I can change it, if I no longer feel like using Wappler I can take my code fully contained and functional into any text editor I like.

Rapid development wise I find it to be faster and more reliable than any software I have used before. For design I do feel that there might be applications I have used that equal or better the speed of the build in Wappler, however I never know what they are doing in the code, and even if I do, I generally do not agree with what it is doing, or how it is building what I want. Wappler builds and writes code exactly the way I would have done it manually 99% of the time, so to me it is fast, very, very fast.

For application development, in my opinion there is no equal, anybody in my opinion could make an application in this that would work to some degree, and for me who knows quite a bit of code in my head already, it does everything to perfection. I unfortunately do not have the time to learn every new development every single day, but with Wappler I can add a file upload to my website and just trust that the code it is using, has been tried, tested, debugged, and scrutinised by a client base of coders. If there were something not working to perfection in it, they would be made aware of it very quickly.

Having personally built by hand a system that could take an upload on an apache web server, place the file in a temp folder, move the file to the correct folder, delete the file etc. I can attest to how long this process takes. In Wappler I could build that same site that took me almost a month in about 2 days.

The thing I love about Wappler is possibly the strangest, this community forum, where a bunch of people with various levels of skill can come together and ask questions, and get informed answers. And if they don’t within a few short hours you can just type @George, @teodor, or @patrick and they kind of have to take you seriously. It is like having a team of professional developers in my office, and I am the boss, and can shout and scream like a brat if something is not working, even when it is me not using the software correctly, I can say, well you should have added that in the software, or, if your documentation was better I would have known that. So it’s a win, win situation for me. Although I do feel bad for them at times.

In a nutshell, Wappler is fast, it helps develop rapidly, there is support, it updates and fixes issues at great speed, and best of all it has saved me hours upon hours, which gives me time and money. I can dump the payment for my form software, for my Adobe tools, for my FTP client, for my other extensions. The savings for me come to more than the cost of Wappler. Pretty soon there will be video tutorials on many topics, there will be documentation that is complete, and support for all the questions we might have.

Thank you Wappler Team for an amazing tool, and for the courage in your mammoth undertaking…

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i have tried so many programs and i eventually stopped using them. some where great but require you to sell your soul to afford it. some where too buggy to be used in anyway. and some didn’t offer any improvement over Dreamweaver.

i settled with a program for the last two years called AwareIM (1600$/y). and i developed a website and a mobile app using it. and although it was easy to use it lack the “flexibility” i need. it was a nightmare to do anything that it wasn’t build in it.

and here we are. i saw the kickstarter for wappler and waited (i wasn’t a believer )
wappler was promising too much functionality and almost free. it was too good to be true.

but as i used it more and more i just can’t believe how powerful this tool is. one of my biggest issue with wappler is that i keep redoing stuff. every time i have done a task i say to myself: i could do it even better!

surly as the program is still in the first year it need more polishing but it is powerful and usable.

the sky is the limit. there is tons of ways to accomplish the goal you have in mind. its more like drawing a painting now.

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@turn3636

So I will tell you what Wappler means to me. I co-own a software company that develops warehouse management systems. I built the first version of our platform in 2005 exclusively with Dreamweaver and DMX Extensions. Now, my full time job is running the company, talking to customers and overseeing our datacenter operations. I have a development team that codes in ASP.NET and they produce 90% of our code for our products. However, they are some parts of our product that I continue to code, and if it wasn’t for DMX with their extensions and Wappler, I would not be able to do it. Wappler, plain and simple, saves me time and that saves me money. It allows me to produce content for my customers in the limited amount of time I can devote to web development. I am able to start and finish jobs in days instead of weeks or months. The other advantage is this community forum right here. We’ve all visited other forums like Stack Exchange but here, we have a true user community where we can ask product specific questions. Where else can you openly communicate with the founder of the company and the support team and give ideas and suggestions… And they listen to you and act on your suggestions and ideas?

I could not have stayed in web development for this long without help from these guys. They make my job easier and faster, and my clients are happy. My team will continue to develop with ASP.NET and Visual Studio, but now with Wappler, I will continue to stay with George and his team for my smaller projects. Just yesterday I received this quote from my contact at a major US retailer:

“This is unbelievable! Even though I should come to expect this kind of work, it is always cool to see. Stacy loved it. Almost moved her to tears because we nailed it so quickly!”

That statement was made possible because of Wappler.

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Roberto (@updates)

Well I had the occasion to develop my own management system, to develop a system who was tailored made on my working flow and with all the controls and feature I was need.
With little knowledges of basic concepts of web development, Mysql and structuring an application, I reached in very small time something that I was not believing possible and this is thank to Wappler and its team.

Obviously my applications are not beautiful or complex like the others developed by more skilled developers in this community, but does not matter. I m improving everyday and thanks also this community forum I m improving in discovery features of Wappler.

Today I m so happy about Wappler that I can’t wait to have little free time to develop something helping me in my job!

Now I m starting for example a compliance systems for all clients, counterparts, events, files etc. Something really unbelievable before dmxzone and Wappler!

Thank you all!

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Jim Arthur (@jimatjude)

At the same time, I am, like many of you, walking through the tutorials, even when those meant mentally revising Dreamweaver documentioin to figure out how to do Wappler. The docmention has gotten better and better, making it amazingly easy to learn Wappler. One of these days I will move to the real sites, but that is part of the process.

So, yes, I am like many of you out there – the non-professional, whether you call yourself a hobbiest, a designer, a developer, or just a “web guy.” This has been a fun journey, one full of learning, and the occassional “ah ha” moments. Joining a community like this, follwoing the progress, complaioning at the bugs, laughing at the things obvious but still not understood, enjoying the acomplishment of the completed page, all add to the joy fo being a Wappler enthusiastic and ambassador. The guyss at DMX even created a pricing level for us “hobby” guys. So, if you are a web guy, at almost any level, this is the place to be.

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Brian English (@Hyperbytes)

I initially thought it would be useful to develop the more mundane parts of the site so i could more time on the more complex aspects but as I learn more and more about Wappler I now see that there is very little i would need to do outside the Wappler environment and in many cases it does it better and faster than I could manually.
I am not and have never been a good designer, i am basically a database developer. Wappler adds a very important and much needed aspect to my work; I can make it look good easily! As a product it has changed my perception of visual app builders which i used to avoid as i don’t like to compromise. The ability to edit the standard HTML code produced externally was a significant factor in my decision to use Wappler but ironically has not proved a particularly necessary feature.
I am proud and humbled at being chosen to be a Wappler Ambassador and hope to give back to Wappler users as much as Wappler has brought to me.
They chose the perfect word to describe Wappler, it truly is Awesome.
Brian English @Hyperbytes

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Jim Arthur (@jimatjude)

I do not believe it is possible to over emphasize this aspect of Wappler. As I indicated in my life story, I, like Ben, am not a designer. In fact, truth be told, I am terrible with colors and cannot draw a straight line with a ruler. When products such as Wappler appear on the scene, which can be combined with Bootstrap frameworks and Bootswatch, both with their pre-selected color combinations, it is as Ben so elegantly stated, “I can make it look good easily! As a product it has changed my perception of visual app builders which i used to avoid as i don’t like to compromise”.

It is both an honor and fun to have been part of the Wappler family watching, and maybe helping, this great product come to market. Thanks to DMXZone, its owners and family of employees, and especially to all of the family of Wappler Ambassadors.

George · August 28, 2018, 10:29am

George · August 30, 2018, 11:48am

Also to assist you with product comparisons we have published a pretty large list:

https://wappler.io/comparison

and some detailed comparisons:

George · October 21, 2018, 1:14pm

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