Coffee Lounge

Area for general chat, miscellaneous discussions, new member intros or off-topic items.

About the Coffee Lounge category

Area for general chat, miscellaneous discussions, new member intros or off-topic items.

Super Slow & Super Weird FTP

Hi, Ever since using Wappler, we have setup almost all our/client’s projects to upload to various shared hosting servers. Every time we save a file, with the target selected as FTP, it “connects” to …

My Top-30 flow killers in Wappler. What would be yours?

There is the “Flow”. It is a state of work, when everything goes perfect. It is when you feel like the tools you use are an extension of your mind. You think about something – and instantly implement …

Finally, Apple releases Web Push support for iPhones and iPads.👏

This is great news for web developers, mobile platforms, and particularly those working on WPA projects. Link to the complete post.

Running into a couple of problems, if any one could give some ideas on how to do it

I currently am designing a booking system. I have two tables: Dates (dateID, date, day, closed) - Already populated with dates Times (autoID, dateID, time, is_booked) - Already populated with dateI…

Unpkg.com behaving badly

For those of you using tagify component, your users are probably experiencing page loading delays today - unpkg.com is barely serving data. This really needs a solution

Wappler for App Dev / Automating Window Setup

While waiting for a productive enhancement on Wappler (remembering preview size and editor split and position), I created a small work around for me using Keyboard Maestro (Mac Only, Automator, btw., …

WebAssist Founder Ray Borduin was diagnosed with liver and colon cancer

Those that have used Dreamweaver in the past, will be ever grateful to Ray Borduin for his contribution to the Dreamweaver Community. It is with great sadness that I share this news with you.

Antitrust, a film from 2001 and a story that repeats itself today, but with a great soundtrack! 🎬

“Antitrust” is a 2001 thriller film that deals with the theme of technology, corporate greed, and the importance of ethical business practices. Despite the film’s central message of op…

Turkey Earthquake: A Call for Help and Gratitude

Hi Wappler Community , I would like to express my gratitude to all my friends who have reached out to me in light of the earthquake that took place in Turkey. The earthquake was of an incredible magn…

App Flow Examples

App flows are just one of those corners of Wappler/App connect that I have not explored much. Any links to useful tutorials or use case examples that can give me some ideas on where to apply it?

New Wappler documentation, although not finished, I love it! 💪

I know it’s not finished yet but the new Wappler documentation looks amazing. Good job guys keep it up!

Mobile Apps: Top 5 Cordova Integration Wish List

So I have just submitted my first Android and iOS app to the stores. However this app is pretty basic in being just a portal for viewing and submitting data behind a secure login. It doesn’t really us…

5.4.0 Installed

Thank you for the new toy! And for the upgrade on Framework 7!

Edit time for posts in extensions

Hi @Teodor, @George, Do you know if it’s possible in discourse to remove editing limit time in a post per category or per Trust Level? When I’m updating info on an extension I would like to do it in…

Coolify - open-source, hassle-free, self-hostable Heroku & Netlify alternative

Due to the bad experience of deploying Wappler projects in docker container i found a project: Does anyone have any experience of using this project on webhosting, maybe someone has …

New Zealand Hosting Company with a data center in one of the main cities? PHP?

Looking for a New Zealand Hosting Company with a data center in one of the main cities? PHP? If I google … then I get godadday… and all these virtual hosts from the states… Is there any reputable ho…

How Fast Can You Build Apps? And Career Advice for a Newbie Developer

My experience of development is limited to using Filemaker to build apps and duck taping things together with WordPress, Zapier, Make.com ect. What made me interested in learning Wappler is while Fil…

That’s one way of putting it

Google Maps Automatically add the callback parameter on save, to ignore a stupid google error

How to obfuscate Git sensitive information

This is what everybody can see in my Git repository In this case, it does not really matter because it is part of tutorial. How do Wapplers go about hiding this information?

Where is the Super AI Assisted CODE Icon?

I know I must have missed the icon that opens up my projects to AI Genius code completion + Testing & Deployment Wizard. I will not start anything new until I find it in one of the Extensions. I thi…

Open AI GPT conversation for Wappler!

Dear all, I just finished a short conversation with Open AI bot for Wappler . Please comment the results. Regards what is wappler? Wappler is a visual web development platform that allows users to …

An app idea

Abandoned projects, plugins, interesting project ideas, starter projects, prebuilt apps, workflows, backend logics, and so on I have an app idea for a marketplace where we as low-code/no-code develop…

Useful Design Flow Examples Site

I discovered this, to me, very useful One Stop Current Page Flow Examples website. See how thousands of leading web services providers are interacting with user sign up, logins, accounts, Page flows! …

Take over my clients

Since I have a fatal disease (survival rate 25%) I am looking for someone from the Netherlands who, in case, can take over the maintenance and adjustments to my clients’ websites. Please respond in p…

Wappler User Opinions on React Native for 2023?

Question 1) Can Wappler 5.3.1 incorporate a React Native app environment instead of its Framework 7 variant? Question 2 ) What are the Pros & Cons according to Wappler users in this forum about using…

Wappler homepage

Didn’t check out the Wappler landing / homepage in a long time, great updates visually with all the short videos of the features! I looked at it from the point of view if I would make a decision toda…

Happy New Year 2023!

Well, 2023 is here. I wish a Happy New Year to Wappler Community with HEALTH, Success and Creativity!

It's coming soon - Couch and Pouch DB integration product teaser

I am sure we are all looking forward to exciting developments in Wappler for 2023 I am delighted to bring to you the official product teaser for the long awaited Couch and Pouch DB integration. This…

AI instantly "recognizes" Wappler

Installed ChatGPT desktop on my M1 chipset Mac desktop Asked it the following and it immediately started spilling its guts . .

What happened to Progressive Web Apps?

A couple of years ago Progressive Web Apps were a big hype, solving so many problems related to configuring for Android & Apple devices & bypassing the proprietary/mandatory Stores regulations to publ…

Do Not Kid Yourselves -- AI WILL be the Default Code Generator

Multiple Tech Industry Leaders, National Agencies all over the world, Military, Community collaborations are working towards the Same Goal: To Replace Human Programmers, including Human “Designers” o…

Developers using VM servers?

Do any longterm Developers administering their own Apps on the major Virtual Machine hosting services notice this problem while running your app on a multi-tenant “scalable” cloud provider? Noisy nei…

Show off your complex server connect workflows and git history

Hello everyone, We are looking for examples of Wappler in action to showcase the capabilities of the tool. If you have any impressive Server Connect workflows or Git Manager commit history and branch…

Any interest in Image Optimisation?

This video shows the difference in performance when images are properly optimised. Image Optimisation If any body is interested, I will create a video tut.

Wappler Swag?

I’d love to represent the Wappler platform with some laptop stickers (I saw some in Jon L’s ambassador post which prompted this message) or other swag like a t-shirt. Is there any chance to order some…

Client Side Image Compression Before Upload

Hi. Has anyone implemented any client-side image compression (size & quality) method that works with Server Connect Form and/or drop zone? I see this has been a long requested feature request with l…

The consequences of a years-old SQLite vulnerability - kaspersky

An interesting bug in one of the most popular embedded DBMS… “database in programs written in C/C++” CVE-2022-35737 details Experts detected a bug in the sqlite3_snprintf function’s code, which is…

First Friday Wappler Meetups

Hi All, I was trawling the forum looking for a dedicated space for suggestions for topics to be discussed in our Friday Wappler meetings we have at the beginning of each month, I couldn’t find any so…

Tailwind + Wappler

Hey guys! Has anyone used Tailwind CSS with a Wappler project? Is it even possible? Would it be nice to have some native support for Tailwind CSS & UI (coming soon) in Wappler? https://tailwindu…

Generic docker hosting

Anyone else have trouble installing/connecting to generic docker machine and using it with Wappler? I have used it before without problem.

Do you check your site performance and what tools do you use to check/ optimise

I see a lot of discussion about SEO on the forum but little about performance and wondered how users measure or improve it. My understanding is that Google expects the first contentful paint to occur…

Wappler Team going to WebSummit!

We are pleased to announce that the Wappler Team will be present on WebSummit in Lisbon Portugal on 1-4 of November 2022. See https://websummit.com/ So if you want to meet and have a beer with us or …

Is there a meet up this Friday?

Hi @mark1. Just checking there’s a meet up this Friday. Hope there is. Cheers, Jon.

Lots of Projects, Tests, Databases? Master Developer Dashboard?

No sooner was I wondering if such a tool existed in open source – I found this Free GitHub distribution: DASHY Open Source Custom Developer Dashboard What kind of organizational tools are Developer…

Has WebAssembly been used by Wappler?

I see GoLang and its growing backend, middleware & frontend libraries for web and computer installed apps. I’ve been reading about GO advantages when piped into a WebAssembly deliverable executable. …

Query builder ui library?

Hi! Does Wappler use any UI component / library for the query builder? I need a user facing query builder, could create it within Wappler from scratch but I’m sure that there are ui components out …

Wappler Wishes List

Hello all!! Wappler is an amazing tool with a fantastic community! What do you need from Wappler that is still not developed by Wappler Team? While we have some extensions, I don’t feel comfortable…

What is Your Complete Set of Meta Tags? :thinking:

Hey Wappler Gang… am just researching meta tags for my web site to appear with all the right info on all the right search and social media platforms… would love to hear which ones you use!

Site Specific Browser Desktop Apps

I know there are many applications to re-distribute or package website applications as Apps. Here is one of them that seems to have a lot of popular companies participating. I’m wondering if this ro…

Go Lang for v5?

v3 brought NodeJS, are there any plans to add Go? https://go.dev/ I’ve been hearing good things about it.

Wappler FR - The new French Wappler Community is coming

For the French version, please scroll down! {ENGLISH VERSION} Hello everyone, Before going further, I introduce myself a little bit, I’m Christophe, and I discovered Wappler a few months ago, afte…

Redis For Windows

This GitHub Unofficial Native Redis for window Redis version 5.0.14.1 Redis version 7.0.5 -May help in development.

How'd you get your first client?

Or maybe I should ask, do you think there’s a market for professionally-built websites for under $1k USD? We’re based in the US and company management gave me the go-ahead to offer web dev for insane…

Get Your Wappler Questions Answered LIVE

Get Your Wappler “How To” Questions Answered Live at the Next Wappler MeetUp Friday, October 7, 2022 at 16:00 Enschede, Netherlands We have assembled some of the most talented and famous Wapplers t…

Data sync from API, what's the best method?

I’m working on getting data from an API, to insert records into the DB. I would like to get data every minute, making sure that after getting the data all records are synchronised. Right now I’m thi…

Build or Buy

I am curious at what point when working with a client on a solution and you find something that meets all of their goals. When you decide to let them buy the solution that is already out there or to …

Why I stopped creating PHP projects with Wappler and why you probably should too

You all know my beef with PHP. I wouldn’t start a PHP project even if your life depended on it. This decision is tool agnostic. But why did I stop doing it with Wappler specifically? For each serve…

Adobe to Acquire Figma

Another one hits the dust:

Apexcharts is not that good

Hi! Re-designing my dashboard pages and charts now. Previously I was using Apexcharts as I liked it’s design but now that I’m going more in-depth I see that it’s actually a very bad library… A lott …

Adobe is set to acquire Figma

Interesting news: Knowing Adobe and their previous acquisitions … wondering what will be the future of Figma

SurrealDB

Cool project reviewed in the latest 100 series by fireship. https://surrealdb.com/features

Attention: Development Studs in Coffee Lounge

How many here figured I was addressing you, in particular? A Tutorial on Queries for Charts would be timely. It is hardly addressed by current docs & tutorials, as far as I can tell. Dashboards f…

Multi-model open source nosql dbms

Does anyone use in their projects multi-model nosql dbms? for example OR https://www.orientdb.org/ Both support REST API. I tried to work with both databases, and at first glance OrientDB look…

Generate SQL directly with help of AI

Have you heard of this new tool?

JOIN US! September 2, 2022 for a Wappler MeetUp

Aloha Fellow Wapplers, Join Us September 2, 2022 @ 4:00PM Netherlands for our next Wappler MeetUp. What’s it about? . . . Shhh! It’s a Surprise! You can find 4:00PM Netherlands in your time zone her…

I'm adding a nice event here :)

@teodor , I thought you might be interested :)) etkinlik

Bubble forum is turning into an SEO/Marketing/GetRich type weird place

I was browsing the forum a few minutes ago and bumped into this. So a guy went through the manual and created some sort of quiz on typeform with the purpose of certifying people on “Bubble knowledg…

Wappler groups in hong kong?

Just curious if there any wappler users in hk! Be great to go through challenges ! Especually if like me - come from a non code background!! Pls get in contact!

Sonar -- Build World-Class Apps with SonarQube Enterprise Edition

Here is an interesting read even though I am not at this stage of testing and deployment of applications, but some Wappler developers are. Tools and services for security testing, bad code, efficiency…

Wappler August 5, 2022 MeetUp

Aloha Fellow Wapplers, You’re Invited to Wappler’s August 5, 2022 MeetUp Save the Date Friday August 5th at 4:00PM Netherlands and join us for Wappler’s August MeetUp featuring Paul aka @psweb an ex…

New Component freeze Wappler

Hello. Yesterday I installed a new component who freezes Wappler The new components was named: Water. Unfortunate things go worst as option Sea was flagged, make the component Sea Water. Have to …

PHP - a cool script to check your server resources - CPU, Memory and Connections

PHP - a cool script to check your server resources - CPU, Memory and Connections. My hosting is not on WHM or CPANEL so its hard to track cpu usage and memory usage… This is a great little script if…

Self-hosted Open Source cool tools I've stumbled upon recently

Zapier alternative https://n8n.io CI/CD https://www.drone.io Feature flags https://www.flagsmith.com Retool alternative https://appsmith.com All of them can complement Wappler and your workflow.

How to get places faster in Wappler

Loving the new Wappler pro racing sponsorship!

Remote Database Changes

Just wanted to pick up on a topic which has had a few people asking over the months on the community. Maybe I missed it, so I am asking in the coffee lounge just incase. Is there a reason why we can…

Just finished Stranger Things 4

Spoiler alert! Do not read YouTube comments of this video or Teo’s if you are planning on watching ST4. Epic choice for a song. The actor actually played the first riffs until it is swapped for the …

Linux Fedora virtual hosting Removing Dir?

I am running Fedora 36 in my Linodes account. /proc is the problem. Now I want to delete the bulk of the process logging files that have built up since this was installed. Each process in this vir…

ES modules: yay or nay?

Now that every major browser supports them will you guys eventually refactor @George? Also SC. Or is it not on the table? I know for AC components it will depend on the creator of the library to pro…

Opinions: https://codesandbox.io/ etc?

I checked this out today and did an import from a GitHub account while in my browser while in the Codesandbox CodeSandbox Blog page How it provides a new entrance to import one of my projects forked …

How do you handle native integrations in your app?

Hi! I’m actively looking for solutions for native integrations for end users in my app. I created an integration flow for 2 apps now, but it’s obviously quite time consuming. I looked and talked wit…

Because it's fun! 🎉

The answer in the title answers the question “Why do we program?” So for those of you who like short answers you can stop reading now I think there are many reasons to start programming, but there…

I was browsing reddit and I found this gem of engineering honesty

If anyone is curious the product is: An Elastic Search alternative.

Wappler 5 Release Notes?

Are there any plans to issue a proper final Release Note for version 5? Or is there a post already that I might have missed?

What are you watching?

Most of us sit at our desks all day ‘working’ but we all know we sneak a break and binge watch on a series or two in the background… For me, recently, has been the following: How To Sell Drugs Onlin…

Welcome our new core team members!

I’m happy to announce that the Wappler core team is expanding and getting two new valuable members! So please welcome @Romy and @dre97 ! Romy is our new young creative talent that will help Wappler …

Congratulations on Wappler 5 from

@Teodor @George @patrick A good friend would like to send you congratulation on the release of Wappler 5… video-1658591023

Wappler vs Laravel

I’m currently evaluating wappler and was wondering how wappler compares with laravel. I’m curious about: How wappler helped speed up the development? What are the challenges you could have solved i…

Wappler 6.0 & Artificial Intelligence

What would it be like to see artificial intelligence in Wappler 6.0

What are the advantages of using Node.JS compared to php

Curious about the node.js, seeing everyone is excited about this, but could some please answer the questions, I need to know before I commit some time into this. What advantages does it offer over ph…

M1 Mac Mini vs M1 MacBook Pro Max and Wappler

So I had a Mac Mini M1 for just over a year, it has however been driving me crazy with speed issues, constant video lagging and spinning beach balls. I figure the main cause of the speed issues is tha…

Why Wappler is not Popular?

The other day, I was talking with my friend about how awesome wappler is. The next day he came up to me asking these questions: If it’s so awesome then why it is not popular? Why there is not any jo…

July 1, 2022 Wappler Monthly MeetUp

Aloha Fellow Wapplers, You’re Invited to Wappler’s July 1st 2022 MeetUp Save the Date Friday July 1st at 4:00PM Netherlands and join us for Wappler’s July MeetUp featuring John aka scalaris demonstr…

Heroku and Databases

Just trying to figure out how to work with databases in Heroku, I see they use a default postgreSQL which I have never used in my life, and would be more comfortable in my normal MySQL which the docs …

Digital ocean spaces speed

Today my digital ocean spaces images are loading very slowly, can’t find any information about it with digital ocean status etc. Anyone that has the same problem?

From PHP to NODE and back to PHP

I developed an auction website with PHP using and action scheduler. All of this worked well, but as soon as you get to more than about 250 users on the site it started to cause a few problems because …

Instagram Feed as Gallery

HI. Trying to setup a client’s Instagram account on their website as a gallery feed. Searches return paid apps which do not make sense. I am just looking for a simple way to show feed from the acco…

Hello

hello im new here thank you

Why is it beta?

Not important but I’m wondering why v5 is still labelled ‘beta’. The weekly updates seem to be pretty much running normally and the additions each week are following the same kind of pattern as normal…

If its not XD then

do I smell a Figma coming on?

Private Messages Harm Your Chances Of Quick Solution

I’ve seen a few posts that had to be made public recently having been written privately to individuals. I hope that some of those considering this approach might read this and subsequently think twice…

IOS 16 looks like it will bring web push support in 2023

Listed under Safari is: Web push notifications Adds support for opt‑in notifications on iOS. Coming in 2023. Just thought I’d drop this here for anyone interested

Wappler developer in Freiburg

Hi to all, I am looking for a local wappler community or developer around Freiburg, Germany area. Thank you in advance.

Property Management and Real-Estate?

As a point of interest how many of the Community develop for Property Management and Real-Estate usage purposes? Our work is primarily aimed at this sector. Interested to know how many others of you…

June 3, 2022 Wappler MeetUp

Aloha Fellow Wapplers, You’re Invited to Wappler’s June 2022 MeetUp But first, a very special Thank You Jon aka @sitestreet for leading us off with his most excellent demonstration of CRUD using Wap…

DDos attack, first time that's happened

All my first nodejs app was working well until I got a DDos attack on the server. Going to have to look into this further on why this happened. Has any one else had this happen ?

Messaging Systems / Large Data Databases choice

Just wondering what everyones choices in database are when working with large data that only certain users can see etc a example of this is Discord You have the server chat groups where all users in …

Monthly Wappler MeetUps

Hello Fellow Wapplers, Following @Antony’s EXCELLENT example of a “Wappler Gathering” with @George’s permission we are creating a Monthly Wapper MeetUp. We are planning a 1-Hour Zoom starting at 4:00…

Countdown to 5.0

Wappler’s CVO(chief version officer) calculating next version number. May 2020 -> 2.9.2 March 2021 -> 3.9.0 Abril 2022 -> 4.7.2

WAMP Problems Started in Windows

Does anyone here use WAMP in Windows? It has worked perfectly for me for 2 years, but now forgets my local host every time I wake up my laptop! Would love to hear of any solution…

Do You Use Gitbooks?

If so, I’d love to know how to get a full document search working… I’m on the free hosted version at gitbook.io

The latest new age S3 storage from Cloudflare

Was just reading the new announcement from Cloudflare about their new S3 compatible object storage offering: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/ A few key things to note: B…

Countdown to 5.0.0

The team recently hit 4.9 so make your bets. Last year I hoped for PHP to disappear from Wappler but it was clearly not possible. Now that seems irrelevant given that the PHP foundation has decided t…

Full Screen on mobile device... can it be done.... then no need for an app or pwa

Hi all… Full Screen on mobile device… can it be done… then no need for an app or pwa… A boostrap site… so its resposive and works great on a mobile… so i can either convert it to a mobile app… or…

Your opinion

I am done with being a people’s pleaser. Is everyone OK with that?

DataTables Update from Experienced User Requested

I understand some developers are using DataTables within Wappler projects. I have a PHP & MySQL project where I wanted to create a Dashboard with various charts, etc, giving visuals of queries to the…

Best Bootstrap Tool EVER (In my humblest opinion EVER)

Ever since starting with Wappler and relying on successive versions of Bootstrap 4 & 5 one of my hugest handicaps (of many) is simply not knowing how to access the complete range of Bootstrap Classes &…

Building a Webmail Client with Wappler

Can someone point in the right direction on building a webmail client with Wappler to send and receive & send emails over IMAP and SMTP and obviously show emails - if that is even possible. What does…

GeoLocation API with country and currency, and more!

We have had a situation where we required the Users country of origin, the respective currency, and other Geo data for integration in to a Project for a very forgiving Client… So, we would just like …

Anybody using Google Go Lang?

I just found a new kid in Google Go lang segment. It is called Dittofi. It is brand new but have very interesting feature set and is mostly does not require one to code anything!! Once an applicati…

Should we be concerned in any way

Not being from Russia or Belarus this is not really a direct concern for me but the principal of infected core routines is:

A discussion about captchas

I came across this website using a sweet captcha called “FriendlyCaptcha” - wow, what a relief not having to label cars and traffic lights split in the middle (I’m not their customer) It uses a J…

Require a few visits to my site to see the server load please on DO

Require a few visits to my site to see the server load please on DO… You are more than welcome to register an account (but will have to use a real email address for the verification)… for the demo…

Theme Manager Custom Bootstrap 5?

Does the Theme Manager not work with Custom Bootstrap 5 configurations? Ie, Frameworks, Bootstrap 5, Custom…? Or is it only usable with ‘stock’ local configurations?

Ludicrous Node Services environments 2021

I decided today for an upcoming project for Europe to first try it on Hetzner using the Wappler discount. Maybe a good testing environment before deciding to keep going with Hetzner or try another hos…

Thoughts on iOS PWA Push Notifications In 2022?

I just decided to have a quick look at if apple have yet started to make the push notification api for iOS and found this posted January the 31st Maybe we will have some sort of web push notificati…

Digital Ocean - Server loads - Memory use? When would one upgrade the server..?

Digital Ocean - Server loads - Memory use? I have a droplet on DO… the CPU load is only like 3% max… The memory is at 50% - 60%… will that be OK? or when would one want to upgrade the droplet? Wh…

When Wappler's community feels like home 🙌

Hey guys, and ladies! It’s been a long time since i wrote my last topic here in this great community and although I’ve had many things to attend to, the main cause has been this little guy here: H…

Integrate into WordPress

Hi all, so does anyone have any idea how i could take a Wappler PHP project, that is super simple, a few server side API calls to get some data, then a form on the client side with dropdown select men…

Today I learned SQL is weird

Goal: Select all rows whose column “enabled” (boolean, nullable) is different than true Pick your first attempt: poll This is on a PostgreSQL database, don’t know if there’s any difference to MySQL/…

Proposing separate Forum Category : "What My Clients Wanted"

There is an abyss that Googling does not immediately solve – When Newbie/Novice App 2022 Developers want to find out the gamut of real world Client solutions Advanced Web App developers are confronti…

SMTP suggestions in a Docker container world

I’ve gotten most of the NodeJS/Docker/MySQL site setup. In final levels of design review, I’m looking for suggestions on how to process a client form that needs to update a database and send an emai…

Gantt Chart

Hello Everyone, Any of you implemented Gantt Chart on Wappler? Best!

Web Report - dynamic data - display as many templates of data as there are number of dynamic rows

Hi, I’m trying to produce a report that will display x number of template of data (formatted in a container). The data is from a mysql query and x is the number of rows returned. I have tried u…

Video Courses from frontendmasters.com

I just came across this today in my continual search for well-done video tutorials on working with Javascript, CSS, Frontend designing , etc. $39 a month for one user Since not all teachers are equa…

LiteSync - easy synchronization of SQLite databases

Hello gentelmens. I have a question about seamless synchronization of multiple SQLite databases. For these purposes, I found a project LiteSync I have a question, are there any developers who use th…

About supabase

@JonL I noticed in a Feature Request comment of yours last year reference to https://supabase.com/ Now that I presume you’ve worked with it for the project you mentioned what is your report about “Th…

Understanding how applications talk to each-other - REST APIs etc

Hello Friends, I just wonder if I could get your views on learning APIs. In particular I want to understand how applications talk to each-other, for example - Google APIs, FreshService/Desk API. I…

Wordle score 🟩

Wordle 249 4/6 How do you fare?

GitHub Copilot AI Programmer

Fan of LTT and on today’s WAN show this came up… Imagine the ML behind this with its access to the FULL code base on GH! GitHub Copilot: Phenomenal tool once it arrives and is available, can se…

When your cat

Just sits in front of you, on your desk, in front of your monitor, giving you the evil eye…

Modals, Single Page App questions

Just created my usual PHP doowahdiddee – 1-- login user credentials to verify we know you page, 2 – choose from different event/s form page, 3 – Thanks for registering (user session closed now) & …

Do you concur?

Do you… do you concur? poll

Any Revolut card holders here?

Bit out of the ordinary but any Revolut card users within the Community? Just signed up for a personal and a business card with them. Was too easy so makes me nervous… Obviously there are fees, I d…

Gitpod and Github codespaces

Has it ever crossed your minds @George? I am just curious. It’s not even a request or idea. Fork VSC, add DOM access to extensions, spend XX months working on a new paradigm and piss off a lot of cur…

A laugh for valentines day

Since it is valentines day here in UK

Puzzle for security/spam psychos

This is my password forgot SC flow. What am I doing?

Editor For JSON Array

Hey folks… I have a huge JSON array of data which provides about half of the text for my app. The text data used to be in my database as I wanted to be able to internationalise everything, but in re…

Opportunity!

Possible opportunity for someone… Very rare that all the TLD’s are up for grabs!

Can we get a day in the life at Wappler?

Would be great to see behind the scenes at Wappler HQ! Have you gentleman thought of doing anything like this?

Visual Query Builders

Hello All, I’m loving Wappler and slowly starting to get to grips with it However, I have a question that’s not directly Wappler related… Visual Query Builders for SQL… I work better visually and …

Bootstrap Studio - The Revolutionary Web Design Tool

Just saw this: Front End Bootstrap 5 Editor with hundreds & hundreds of components. Automatically updated with latest Bootstrap 5 extensions, releases. Either start here and finish in Wappler, or…

Interesting SaaS to follow

A french startup is building a no code product with interesting promise. It is not mature, but it’s interesting how they are building things and solving issues. In the french slack groups, people co…

The Javascript Based Site v Wordpress Debate

Hi all… Can I just put something out there as I am curious… I’ve just had a look at this article https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-site-examples/#enterprise-wordpress-sites and also some interestin…

Anyone having crashing and not responsive issues with 4,5,1 on Mac M1

I’ve done a clean install, but I am noticing a lot of crashes and Wappler not responding on 4.5.1 did not have this problem on the previous version. Just wondering if anyone else is having issues at …

High CPU usage on Node project with websockets

Hi. I did a project in Node Its still on my local machine not uploaded. I have web sockets on 3 of the server connect apis. When i open my project my CPU usage on task manager goes to anything betw…

Email routing by CF

Another freebie by Cloudflare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/ In case you want to create 25 different department emails to look big and professional and route them all to you…

Finally Docker is talking to Wappler on my Ubuntu Server :)

After a few days of headbutting a wall, a DDoS attack, a lot of beer, and a sore posterior from sitting in the chair, I’ve come to the conclusion that it was well worth the effort…! Finally, a comple…

Found a new No-code Low-code entry in market

This online tool called Dittofi is interesting and I just found a blog comparing it with Bubble.io. Regarding Dittofi the only downside for me is that it generates code in Google Go.

Client demo video

This is a demo of how the project will work once finished. Note: Just ignore the bugs; they’ll be ironed out later. Demo #92

JavaScript books - recommendations

3 years of Wappler has been a great journey but before using Wappler i was a coder, primarily server side and frankly using Wappler is leading to a decline in my technical skills. I really need to twe…

Svelte Web site

For your dining and dancing pleasure –

Accessible Heading Structure

In one of my videos I changed the size of a heading by using a class rather than changing the element (h1). I also gave a very concise reason for doing so. Since then, Rian Rietveld has written a com…

Modern Web Build Toolchain

I was looking at Postman, the API building, testing, maintaining repositories company hosting & developing the Postman products. Then I saw in their Technician hires requirements this line – Extens…

Useful DataTables

From an earlier post in the Wappler forum: https://datatables.net/

REST is Dying

I just read this from – Beau Beuchamp at Medium.com The following is a link to the full article supporting the argument that REST is an archaic technolgy that has been supplanted by better, more eff…

The developer of node dropped it

Just a little info, in case you didn`t know: the developer of node, dropped node and replaced it with Deno, because node was to much of a mesh to maintain because of all the dependicies. So thats go…

Anyone willing to share full node.js projects built with Wappler?

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What some Developers Get Away With!

An Executive Creative Designer for a Hamburg, Germany company just showed me in the past couple of hours the website where they want to install an events registration app with an Admin panel so that t…

What Does PHP to Node REALLY Involve?

I’ve been loving all the banter on the “PHP is Dead” thread. So lots of you are saying you will start your next project in node. I’d probably do the same, but I will only ever have one project and i…

Updating a 2 year old project to new Wappler flows, etc

I am confused. I have to go back and update a 2 year old php, mysql database multi-page form with login security. So I’ve dragged in all relevant files & folders from OLD Wappler & updated the hidde…

Seasons Greetings

christmas-greetings-video

Happy holidays everybody!

Just wanted to wish everybody here and the Wappler team Happy Holidays! Thanks for the development and progress of the ‘Wappler platform’ as well as for the great support here on the forum. Best, M…

Can we buy into Wappler company?

Wappler is definitely going to be the only way people will build applications. Children will be taught Wappler from Kindergarten instead of coding. Developers will build for wappler and wappler will …

All these Frameworks can lead developers away from Simpler, Faster methods

In this forum I have seen cases people report where the problems in page loading when using queries for data & pagination are resolved when they learn that some server-side executed queries IMPROVE pe…

Supabase still going places

Since my last post about them on October which I quote here: They have: Added row-level security for their realtime server.. RLS policies you write for your database are now respected by their rea…

How Will These Update Popups Effect Older Projects?

While working on older projects there a many messages that popup advising there are updates. Should I update or not is the question. I am not certain will not break the existing working application. H…

React and Redux engineer struggles to center a div

Dan Abramov (React engineer and Redux co-founder) struggles to center a div Just posting this to give a little hope to those who think they must be dumb for not being able to do stuff others seem to …

Web Graphics: Photoshop vs Affinity Photo - What do you use?

After using Photoshop since version 3.0.5 my subscription to Creative Cloud finally ends next week. I am currently torn between a Photography Plan with Adobe or just buing Affinity Photo. Both have t…

Browser Wars 2021

In case you’ve not been following the Browser Wars for a long while: This article is an update on the top RENDER ENGINES powering the current most-used browsers. What is really frustrating, I think, …

Wappler+GitLab=CI/CD

Hello Gentelmens. Continuing this request: I propose to discuss the possibility / necessity of integrating the CI / CD process and Wappler. Why GitLab: Easy to install GitLab CE to docker con…

UI Initiative avatar picker

Has anyone used any of the Framework7 UI Initiative examples? https://uiinitiative.com They have a nice avatar editor that I am looking at using on a mobile app (allows editing an image to use as an…

Any Linux users?

Any resident Linux users around? Just wanted to ask if anyone here is using Wappler 4.2.2 on Linux? Thinking of returning back to Linux after running Windows for the past decade… Interested in feed…

Appgyver for Mobile Apps

Has anyone used Appgyver to create a mobile app? It was mentioned in the “Bubble Drama” post on their forum and sounds pretty amazing!

Gitbook Support

I’ve started using gitbook for my app’s docs, and so far so good, I’m really enjoying it. The one thing I can’t seem to find is any support or community portal… Does anyone out there use gitbook and…

Finally getting to grips with NodeJS

After months of not trying it (and being worried about change) my god, what a difference it makes! Only question I have is around the CSS. It seems it points to /css/styles.css and it should really …

From darkness to light

Some of you know I live in the backend of nowhere. One drawback is horrendously slow internet speeds. Surviving on half a dozen different hot-spot dongles (if one is slow we switch to another, and a…

What's your workflow to create new features?

Hi! Since yesterday, I’m trying to “design” the flow and database tables for a new feature in my app. Whenever I have to build a new feature that seems to need a lot of conditions and variables, it’s…

Easiest Way For Non Techie to Build A Product Website AND Online Store?

Hey you gurus of the online world… My partner is pretty non techie and wants to build both a marketing website and an online store for selling herbal remedies. I’d love to build it for her, but I’m …

Is Node.js a framework?

This is, to me, a useful breakdown referring to the evolvement of computer coding & terminology while tackling the question " [Is Node.js a framework?]"

Height Calculator Tool

Hi guys, i was challenged by a friend of mine and an ex-wappler team member (@boris) to build a height calculation tool to showcase my dev skills. So here’s a quick demo of the tool i’ve been working …

Coming out of Hiatus

It feels like an eternity not regularly coding and only doing UI and UX Design(my dayjob), but I got a nice side project building a POC web app for a large insurance company here in South Africa and h…

"Team Building Week"

Next week we will have a team building week

NodeJS api and xamarin mobile?

Hi, Silly question perhaps, but I was wondering if it is possible to use a Xamarin/MAUI mobile app in conjunction with a NodeJS api created with wappler. Especially in regards to the security provid…

Flutter versus Wappler

Looking for some talking points here I guess… One of my clients has a device that detects electricity in water to save lives. I’m working with the hardware developer to put together an app. They al…

My lessons of Node.js/Heroku/Docker/Caprover and the PHP world - bloody forehead

Sorry tor the long intro here - as I’ve read many others who have dealt with this - my sanity needs to share. Been a week of beating my forehead on the wall - reading/watching tutorials - all to this…

Authentication/user management advice

Hi! Soon I will be launching my SaaS built with Wappler. Previously I used bubble which didn’t provide for more options for user / authentication management other than using their system. With Wappl…

Trying to get more understanding of Docker

I know this is possibly a really silly question, so I will ask it anyway. Wappler gives easy access to things like portainer, and traefik which i could install manually if I were not using Wappler, f…

Image Management - Docker

In general, does anyone store images in a database or just in a folder? In Docker containers, are the images downloaded and then overwrite images stored in the local folders?

Looking for alternative to Linodes.com Hosting

I have 2 websites running private instances of Mastadon (Twitter alternative social media) on 2 separate volumes of my Linodes account. But it seems that Linodes considers webhosting as a nuisance to…

New Client sends me system in Visual Basic to convert to web based

I know I won’t be able to use any of these files (apart from maybe some graphic files) in the new web based system. I have a new client (although I have known them personally for a number of years) a…

Video hosting for protected video content

Has anyone used this service: https://api.video/ ? If so, what are your impressions? Are you satisfied with everything? My task is to develop a platform for authors of training materials. The key co…

About CI/CD

Hi All. The only thing I know about CI/CD is that it stands for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment. Can someone share some for-dummies material to understand CI/CD and some insights on how…

What Server Action Features Would Speed Up Your Productivity?

Here is my list! removing the steps line (as done in 4.2) have more sophisticated expand/collapse functions on a right click (expand all below, collapse all below, expand all at this level, collapse…

Companion tools to supplement Wappler?

@George @patrick @Teodor Have there been any considerations within the team to add ‘companion’ products to the DMX line-up? Now that Wappler is really on its feet… Any thoughts on adding a Visual Q…

SQLite - single user?

In my work this week I looked into SQLite. I thought I read it only allows one connection. It didn’t sound right, but I made the decision to stay with MySQL. Wondering what I missed?

Reading Node Server Environment, Modules, Installed dependencies

For localhost machine Wappler installations of Node I was looking for a simple tool like php(info) to show me the entire server environment that gets loaded with a Wappler Node project. I hadn"t run …

Suggestions on how to accomplish

I’d like to add images like these on the bottom of the slider like Flickr uses. Any suggestions or come to mind: Thanks in advance…

The future of Low code solutions seems to be bright

Read this small but interesting article. No wonder SAP has acquired AppGyver!!

Advice on Scheduled Server Actions

Here are the need to knows. I have an API I am pulling data from as regularly as possible because it changes constantly every day. I have to query at least a years worth of data as it is for holiday…

Trying out a new server

Evening all, just trying out a new server that I’ve installed. Just wanted to get some feedback about speed from anyone who has a couple of minutes to try it. I’ve thrown together a quick site for te…

Sortablejs integration

I recently found myself needing sortablejs so I decided id try help the community out with this too below is a file containing the setup for a simple list and a simple list with handles. Please note …

I'd hate to be Facebook Engineer right now

Specifically, ‘THAT’ Facebook Engineer! DNS cock-up or another event? What are your theories?

What Do You Think of Wappler's Front End Design Tools?

Following an interesting post about Wappler’s front end design tools this week, I’d love to hear everyone’s views about them. What parts do you love? What parts do you long to be improved? Which par…

Show Website as App

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to make the website I have as an app? So, when u open my app it is my website with full functions of the site. Thank You

Clearer selection of tags in Code View (especially closing tags of selection)

Would it be possible to increase the visibility of selected tags (ie, a row, container, etc) in Code View? Default and Dark themes especially bad. When selecting tags in Code View can barely see the…

MariaDB

Has any successfully installed MariaDB on a Mac yet?

TIL - Code snippets - Best practices - How to - Share your Wappler discoveries

Hello everyone! TIL, Today I Learned, like every single day when you’re working on something actually! I thought that it would be great to have a place where we can say “Hey, TIL how to do THIS with…

Any Romanian wappler users?

Hi guys, are they any romanian users here? We could stay in touch and help eachother…

Where to Host My Domain? 🤯

Some of the details of running an app are pretty tedious. For me, the whole domain name management is one of them, and it seems I need to dive into the details this week. So my app’s domain name is c…

CentOS 8 will reach End of Life

I am informed CentOS 8 will reach End of Life (EOL) on all systems on December 31, 2021. Wondered what people were planning on to migrating to after? cPanel seems to be recommending AlmaLinux 8

Wappler 4 documentation

Do we have any target date for when the Wappler 4 documentation will be available? Thanks! Best. Jay

Your interests outside of Wappler?

What are your interests outside of Wappler? Always interested to know what people get up to in their spare time away from ‘work’… So what do you get up to during your down-time?

4.0.4 Release

File not found… Sorry poor joke, should have made last week! Am surprised in a Community of Developers no one made the connection hahaha…

From Node/Docker back to Apache/PHP

Ahhhhhh the ease and simplicity of bog-standard hosting! Like the back of my hand. After routing, templating, containers, images, caching, deployments… Its like being a kid again! Everything works…

Just a friendly chat about clients

Hi all you lovely people, so I was just wondering how everyone else handles their different client needs. So today as an example, I had a client call and ask to add SSL to their 4 year old website, p…

Debugging with Mantis

Meet my new Debugger! Decided to fly in to my office and make himself at home.

RIP Draftbit

From the producers of RIP Appgyver comes RIP Draftbit. I just received an email from them informing me that they are sunsetting their free tier by September 30th. Not even a month’s notice. Free is …

Emergency Wappler on the road

After 1,5 years of being a caveman, I will finally hit the road and go on a short holiday. Fear of being 9 days away from my desktop is already kicking in… How do you handle being away and not able …

Tabable Server Actions question

So I am finding Wappler 4.01 wonderful, apart from the tabbed server actions part, I think its a wonderful idea, but it seems to be slowing me down personally quite a bit. Wappler 3.9.9 I could have …

Bubble Platform Boost?

Could this see a huge bubble boost? We have some exciting news to share with you as founders: Bubble recently closed a $100M Series A round led by Insight Partners to become the leading no-code pl…

Any new updates this week?

Any 4.0x update coming out today? Or will it be next week? Asking for a friend…

Cool news DigitalOcean: Apps platform can now swcurely connect to managed database

Super cool news from Digital Ocean: We can now use the app platform to securely connect to a managed database. This was not possible before and forced me to learn about the ubuntu droplets. Aweso…

A day in the life of Teodor

Turn down your volume a bit before playing. 4eacb7eb99bb3eef0649f10d8857ee18

Add component categories to the Community?

Would it be possible to breakdown the various components offered in Wappler in to categories within the Community? Example: App Connect (Client side) Server Connect (Server side) Cordova Electron …

Nomoreransom decrypters

I got this through a contact. In case one day you fall victim to one of the multiple ransomwares circulating out there.

Discourse Configuration Guru Required

I have Discourse installed and working on Digital Ocean. I need someone to reconfigure it to use a managed database. Do you know anyone who I can employ to do that for me?

Wappler vs Frameworks

I am curious why folks would use a php framework such as Laravel over Wappler or vice versa? Would some consider Wappler a framework of sorts for Node.js or PHP? Thanks for any insight.

Grupo Telegram Español

Buenas noches. @salvuccicarlos y yo hemos creado este grupo en Telegram para debatir y aclarar dudas en español sobre Wappler. Para toda la comunidad hispano hablante.

¿Algún argentino por aca? (Any Argentine using Wappler?)

Buenas! @Max_Saravia y yo somos argentinos y teniamos ganas de saber si existen otros argentinos utilizando esta hermosa herramienta. Gracias!

New To wappler - best resources to learn

Hello Friends, I have zero knowledge in coding but a lot of ideas for projects. i want to build my own projects through wappler, but i need to know first if there is rich resources that can help me …

Gradient animation : great tool

Just discovered this tool : https://sarcadass.github.io/granim.js/ Looks very nice and powerful. Demo are impressive imho.

Tool : css gradient, easy and simple

Nice gradient css tool : https://cssgradient.io super easy what are the tools you use?

The real showcase!

Just for fun I was looking for websites made with wappler(or dmx extensions) because the showcase doesn’t reflect exactly what people build. And I’ve found some things… The internet never dissapoint…

After a long time using Wappler a few ideas (food for thought)

I know you all just finished version 4 which is amazing and works great, so so fast on my M1 mac, so this is just for future thought, some small things that I think would make daily production faster …

Wappler a tool for artists?

Make yourself a coffee, turn on the computer, and put on your headphones. Your favorite playlist starts playing and you open Wappler. You have an idea, something that has to go out of your mind and th…

Are you Using Wappler 4?

Hey Everyone! I’m still using Wappler 3.9.9, is the Wappler 4 stable? Are you using it without any problems already? Thanks!

Client complaining about speed of website/system

I get this comment from my client last night… “… couldn’t use it on an ongoing basis because of the speed. As you know I mentioned speed a couple of days ago. Attached [video] is my iPad 2, which is …

Postman for API building & testing

I saw this posted in the forums today. I checked it out and it looks SUPER USEFUL for Wappler API building. Giving a consistent, speedy way to troubleshoot or create connections with mock servers. h…

COBRA Database?

Against my advice a client a few years ago put down a lot of money to convert their records, operations & a lot of data submitted by hundreds of in-field employees into a COBRA database. Still a thin…

Saving money on AWS Route 53 Resolver costs

Always looking to save money here! Quick tip to saving quite a bit on Route 53 AWS Resolver costs… Increase the TTL of all of your DNS records to their maximum! Anyone else care to share cost cut…

Any IoT nerd around?

I’m getting into node-red and I’m loving it. Another reason to ditch PHP in favour of NojeJS

Please Like!

Please kind community members, REMEMBER to go and Like the Wappler Facebook page, and the posts! It is important. I notice that not many of you do… I urge you to do so when you have a moment spare!…

Hello, what is it that you truly desire?

Do we have our own Lucifer Morningstar? I ask this because my desires are gradually being realised in the latest Wappler Beta version. It is namely out of this world. If it is the cas…

Remember Fireworks?

We loved Macromedia Fireworks for its shear simplicity. Was a great tool and sadly missed. Always been on the hunt for a replacement. We have the Adobe CC Suite, luxury of a kind accountant… We us…

Is there a minimum system requirement to view sites created by Wappler?

I have a client who is a in pain in the a$$. He wants the latest features and yet views the sites on old technology. It’s not quite as bad as using Internet Explorer 6 or anything like that (I gave …

Is nodeJS really worth it

OK Guys & Girls, I am struggling at little bit getting my head around nodeJS, so the question I have is it really worth it when building a site that involves a lot of database queries? Or am I bette…

The Web Browser, why you should probably need to use it better with your projects

Countless times I have read Teodor write “what does the console say?” and I wonder if it is because many do not know how to use it, are afraid to open it or just do not want to have anything to do wit…

Wappler Community Day Event!

The Wappler community has grown and will continue to grow because it is no secret that Wappler is a great product that we use every day which not only allows us to create our applications but also l…

What is the story behind the name Wappler?

I can’t help but wonder: How was the origin of the name “Wappler”? It’s a memorable name to be sure … Just curious, –Ralf

Deploy multiple apps on one server

Hi all, Seen a few posts re: this so thought I’d share this then went live on product hunt today: https://hostman.com/ Disclaimer: haven’t used the service just seemed worth a share. Matt

Requesting a NEW Forum Category

**Best Practices & Problem Solving Steps used by Commercial Wappler Developers ** i.e. “What my client asked for and how I solved the problems that Gimme List presented” I don’t have the short title…

Mass image upload - Best way for clients to upload files and the access it remotely?

Mass image upload - Best way for clients to upload files and the access it remotely? What is the best way or cloud service… to upload images to work like and FTP server? The reason is… i dont want t…

Happy Birthday Teodor!

Happy Birthday @Teodor !!! I hope you have lots of cake and ice cream and presents and candles, well maybe not candles, but I hope you have a great special day !!

App Connect Flow Best Uses

Anyone have any recommendations regarding learning more about the potential and typical use of the App Connect Flow feature within Wappler?

Apideck.com - for anyone looking to simplify / expand platform integrations

Hey all, Came across this recently - has a brilliant concept of unifying API’s so that you only need to configure with their API and you can then work with anyone in that specific unified api ecosyst…

DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB

Just launched, great news Mongo fans!

Dolt database

Has anyone tried it? It’s a MySQL replacement with GIT features.

Music of choice

A thread yesterday went on a tangent and I had my eyes opened to Aqua’s Barbie Girl as Death Metal and it made me wonder… What is you music of choice (genre/album/playlist/song) when working?

Best Practices: When to Use Library?

I know Libraries have been in Wappler for a long time and the basic premise is that they are re-usable. But regular API stuff is also re-usable. And API stuff is generally not used more than once in …

From the producers of that title

Feel free to add to this compilation of great titles.

What Are These For?

Wappler is an awesome tool to build incredible things! With that in mind, I want to learn as much as possible of its capabilities. I have a questions of some of the items within its panels that beckon…

Wappler 4 roadmap

Is there any chance of a bit of a update roadmap for after Wappler 4 is stable, i’m just wondering if I should hold off on a few features incase they get added into Wappler natively so I wouldn’t need…

CouchDB + PouchDB

Hello, in this thread I invite you to discuss the bundle: As Server-side Component and Database Manager connector - https://couchdb.apache.org/ And as Local Storage - https://pouchdb.com/ I underst…

Firefox new tab design? What do you think?

Not sure I like the new Firefox tab design looks more like a button than a tab. What do you think?

Extract images from PDF as JPG or PNG

Does anyone have a recommendation for a FREE downloadable program or online service for extracting images from PDF files and saving them as either JPG or PNG? This is for a client who only needs to p…

Thursday, the most unproductive day

Just wondering who else watches youtube all day on Thursdays waiting for the Thursday Wappler update so you can work all night long instead?

Amazon S3 Upload Bug/Issue/ (naming of S3 Provider)

Not so much of a bug but a heads up for others that may encounter this issue, and maybe one for @patrick to comment on…? We had an issue for a while that was really hard to figure out using the S3 Pr…

Custom Subdomains CNAME records

Has anyone yet tackled setting up custom cname records for SAAS type applications where the user would want to use a custom domain or a subdomain like user1.myapp.com? I remember reading about https:…

Multi-domain certificates managed automatically

For anybody needing to support multiple custom domains (those outside your control) and wildcard domains, you know the verification and management of certificates can be a pain. Caddy server to the r…

[Suggestion] Monthly/weekly challenges

As I started to write this, I noticed this appears to have been done twice before, but in 2018 and not since. It would be fun to have some sort of weekly or monthly challenge (depending on what the c…

Just hit my first anniversary... and what a year it has been

My first year just clocked over and so much more to learn. I did nothing for the first 4 months but then got stuck in and how thing have changed since I started! I am glad I didn’t leave it any longer…

Spidey sense is tingling!

Anyone else get the feeling something BIG might be dropping soon?

Where do you store API keys for external calls?

Out of curiosity. Where do you prefer to store API keys for calling externals APIs with SC API Actions ? In the Workflow itself, env or in a database table ? In my specific case I assume I will be …

Another nice Drag and Drop library - Dragula.js

Hey all, Might actually give this one a go myself, it has some good documentation and plenty of events that could by used with dmx binds. https://bevacqua.github.io/dragula/ and on github: https://g…

8 Apps to Help You Learn to Code for International Programmers' Day

In order to build Apps beyond basic forms with search views it is not nearly enough to look to simple Programming concepts sites or tutorials to learn “How to Program”. How today’s App Developers exp…

Happy 3rd birthday Wappler!

Exactly today, 3 years ago, we released Wappler at the TNW conference in Amsterdam! What a start it was and how far did we go in just three years! All thanks to our great community here and our top @…

Webcontainers

Hey team, You can now drop Electron and create cloud.wappler.io

Progress bar hunt

Anyone seen out there a library, codepen, css example that mimics this type of progress bar? It’s the “burn bar” from the Apple Fitness+ app and I want something similar for an app. I’m planning o…

Thank ..... It's Friday!

When your dog sums up your week in one image…

Https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-a-software-developer-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-programmer-role-and-how-it-is-changing/

834% Increase in demande for entry-level PHP developers since January 2020? When was this article written? Then I trace these figures back to Indeed website that collected the data for this surv…

Internet Explorer has finally run its course

Can finally forget about IE11 css fixes

Wappler's Hetzner refferal link

I found interesting point in In 4.0.0 BETA 3 release update: Added Hetzner referal link to get 20 euro of cloud credits Is it working only for new Hetzner users?

Building Chrome Extensions in Wappler

We are about to embark on a basic Chrome Extension to interact with our Wappler project, which got me thinking. The basics of a CE are fairly straight forward, and as a non-coder I was able to build …

Wappler 4.0.0 Beta Questions

I’m curious if the statement made introducing the new Wappler 4.0.0 Beta implies that the 3.9.7 is not stable and cannot be ran with the new Wappler 4.0.0 Beta?

Any recommendations for an NPM package to access webcam for recordings?

Hey all, Looking at the possibility of opening up a feature for users to record and store videos from their web cam via an app of ours. Found a few NPM packages, just wondering if anyone has achieved…

Data queries to populate select drop downs

General question about how other people handle data fetching for drop downs in their apps. Example: A settings page for crud operations on customers with a paginated table of several customers. Limi…

Video Class Hosting Platform Recommendations

I have a client who wants to host a large series of video classes and then have my app access their account on the hosting platform via an API, to set up their client’s access codes / passwords depend…

YouTube Channels you frequent?

After posting a link to a Linus Tech Tips video featuring the new Asus offering, and seeing others here also enjoy the content on LTT, I thought I’d ask what Channels do Wappler Users watch during dow…

Change dynamically created fields based on database rules

Hello everyone I’m creating an app with dynamic forms, based on control types admin user will set on admin plattform. Forms are being created nice, but there are some rules like: change checkbox val…

Happyyy Birthday George :)

Happy birthday @George I wish you many years with your loved ones. @wappler_ambassadors @patrick @George

Thursday - the day you realise

So Thursday came and went without an update to Wappler. It felt strange and somewhat disappointing, a bit like someone cancelling Christmas. It did however serve a stark reminder of the joy the Wapple…

The best reason to go PWA

Apparently the tech giants decide which apps they will make available in their store. Today it is Parler, tomorrow it could be your app. Bypass the mega stores and create PWA’s instead. This goes w…

Apple PowerBook M1 and Wappler

I currently use Wappler with a 21.5 (1920 × 1080) iMac, but having to replace it due to obselescence and also for management reasons I will have the intention to buy a Powerbook M1. I state that alre…

Sandbox a Server Connect Action

Maybe a silly suggestion but would it be possible to have a sandbox option to run, for example, an insert action but only sandbox it so the results are not actually inserted, to test complex actions p…

Countdown to 4.0

Last year we had 2.9.2 in May and then 3.0.0 beta. This year we have 3.9.0 in March so we are going to see 3.9.9, right? Anyway, just taking a seat and hyping things up as last year. P.S. I am v…

Database table naming conventions guide

Seen a few topics and comments recently about naming conventions within your database. Thought the following Stack post is a good read and still very relevant despite it being a few years old now.

Learn Front-End First -- "Full Stack Reality in the Market"

I came across this Youtube video from Dec 28, 2020 The Full-Stack developer firmly recommends if you are new to app programming Do NOT take a Full-Stack course before learning Front-End development. …

After week of absolute pain in the last hours Friday Success!

After a week of pain and torture working with arrays I finally had a break through and what I thought was going to be impossible came together literally in the last hours of the week! You go home to …

Due Diligence before choosing wappler and contributing to ecosystem

Apologies that this may be a long post and lots to think about. It’s also something that others have probably asked before. But this will be a brain dump of things I’m thinking about and trying to mak…

Sentry: what a tool!

It is incredible the amount of errors I am catching in production that end-users don’t care to report. Thanks team for introducing me to this app!

Slack or Discord community?

Is there a slack or discord community for wappler?

If you are still afraid of docker.. watch this

Greetings to all! Even at the beginning, since Docker was something I did not handle the knowledge of, I felt like I was playing with something I did not have control of and therefore I did not use i…

Recent Review of Top 10 Node.js Frameworks

Every month I look again for new frameworks being used with Node.js in mobile apps & responsive web apps. Easter Sunday I found this page which was updated March 5, 2021. It has a nice clear layout …

Hosting Advice and Maybe Some Help Needed - A Move From AWS Before Launch?

Hey everyone… I’m within a month of launching my app. I’ve got everything set up on AWS, but I’m having second thoughts. I don’t want to change hosting once I’m live, so it is now or never time to co…

Makefiles versus Package Json scripts

I came across this article. Make files makes things cleaner. Smarter in the building. Make is a build automation tool that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from…

MongoDB vs Couchbase comparison

I just saw this in my emails & thought I’d pass it along for your education, amusement, feedback. Announcement from Couchbase DB Figure 1: Couchbase extends ANSI SQL to support the flexible schema o…

Open source Help desk or ticket creation

Hello!! Has anyone created a help desk or ticket creation app on wappler? I’m willing to participate on such a proyect or pay for it if it’s suitable for me. Thanks!!

Lightrun Developer Tool

I’ve been reading about this company in reference to several products I already use. Lightrun. A new way of helping developers see how their code is behaving. The company is the first to bring “shi…

PHP to NodeJS

As the title suggests, is it currently possible to switch a PHP wappler project to NodeJS server model without breaking data bindings etc. or would it be best to start a new NodeJS project?

Deciding on 'release edition/numbers' - is there a standard practice or logic?

Hey all, We’d like to increase the velocity by which we deliver updates, to users (communication of) and would like to do this through release ‘editions/numbers’ - just like Wappler does each Thursda…

User's Custom Field

Hello guys, I have a table with: ID FieldType [text, combo, check] Value The idea is, on frontend, show the inputs accordingly to “field type” column. I have some ideas in mind on how approach i…

Mac Users advice required

Interested in some Mac advice. What do you Mac users use to replace the Adobe suite (I understand we can use an emulation layer but would like to hear suggestions for an outright replacement)? We do…

Big list of 'free' email domains

Hi all, I’m about to implement a restriction on users signing up with ‘free’ email domains - Hubspot has an extensive one that can also be downloaded into a .csv file that will make uploading to a DB…

Great video by The TechLead (ex Facebook, ex Google, as a millionaire perspective)

I drop by The TechLead and often enjoy his dry wit, sarcasm, honesty, and arrogance. This video really hits a few points that a lot of up and coming developers/entrepreneurs need to hear (as non mill…

Mobile Apps: My nightmares come true ;-)

I knew this day was coming but dreaded it. My employer has asked that I develop a client App for iOS and Android. Basically we are recreating a client web app that I have already built all with Wappl…

Migrating from 2015 MacPro to 2020 MacPro

I want to install Wappler as an application on my newer MacPro in the process of migrating other applications from my Time Machine backup to my newer MacPro. Will Wappler re-install that way on anoth…

Hi, Question, I have bad luck, and happy to join you!

Hi: Hello everyone , my name is Saud, just like my country name but without ’ i ’ letter i have some experience with python and Django , and i want to learn designing so i opened github and start…

For anyone who wants to test their CSS and programming skills

Do you think that you are good with CSS? Then try out https://cssbattle.dev Or do you think you have very good programming skills, try out https://www.codingame.com. Also when you are not skilled, t…

CSS Gurus? How to achieve this?

I’m no CSS expert. Infact I’m no expert at all hahaha… We would like to create something along the lines of the following Configuration page for System 76 laptop specifications. Has anybody got a p…

RIP AppGyver

Another “free”-ish service lost to the giants… https://blog.appgyver.com/appgyver-joins-sap-2afe2d902645

Article: Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies

Just a very interesting article… regarding … Ever since I started learning how to code, I have been fascinated by the level of trust we put in a simple command… Because i know alot of you are insta…

Running Python on Docker Container

Hi Not really a Wappler Specific question so I think I have chose the right Category but please feel free to move if I haven’t and since we have a very well informed community here. I was wondering ho…

Messing around with Tailwind 😍

Decided to support the Tailwind CSS team today any purchased a license for their UI kit. (The underlying css is open source but they sell licenses to access ready made components and layouts to speed …

Read/View .eml eMail files with NodeJS

Hi, I’m looking for a possibility to read (view) .eml eMail files. Does someone in the community have experience with this? I found the following possible solutions: How could I use a NodeJS M…

Sweet dreams tonight

Now think of all those critical services you use that depend on your gmail account to reset your password

Is Wappler a garage?

Is Wappler a garage? We all know the stories of great companies that started in a garage or a small space and then became multi-million dollar brands. Most of the great inventions were born in pla…

Bootstrap library to complement wappler?

Hello dear wappler superstars ! I’m not a front-end dev. Building a nice page with a live editor like Clickfunnels is easy though for me. I found this tool : https://bootstrapshuffle.com/ Do you …

Ycode opinions please

Hello, First let me just say I’m really excited to have found Wappler and have been enjoying the learning curve. I have no coding background but have picked up some bits and pieces over the last 12 m…

Import Server Connect Actions to other Projects?

A quick idea. Having the ability to import Server Connect Actions in to other Projects within Wappler. Feasible (as a Feature Request) or a silly idea? Not connecting to them from within one Projec…

Dogtown Z-Boy Member official website!

Legendary Dogtown resident and Z-Boy (Zephyr Surf and Skate team, with Jay-Boy Adams, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta founder of the Bones Brigade) member (a great friend of mine) and pioneer of skateboar…

Anyone has comparision of Wappler vs ScriptCase

Hello All, I just read that ScriptCase is more faster and powerful PHP code generator tool. From what little I manage to test, I feel in ScriptCase it takes less steps to build compared to Wappler. …

Mouse type preference

After Antony requested we vacate his thread I selected to start one here: Yes @TomD. Its a great mouse but has taken a little getting used to after using the trackball for so long. Trackballs ar…

It's Thursday thennn, Go Wappler!

Someone needs to rework this to say Thursday, and Go Wappler.

W3 School - Free Tutorials

Ladies and gentlemen, hello! This week I had the pleasure of finding the W3 school, basically it is a free school, where it only charges to issue the certificate. I just finished the bootstrap cours…

Grammarly Causing Problems With Stripe - Throws a "blocked a frame with origin" Error

Hey Wappler Gang… As more people start using my app, I’m finding that if the user has Grammarly installed, it is causing Safari to throw a “blocked a frame with origin” error as the user types their …

Code analysis tool : Easy to integrate within Wappler?

Hello dear wappler superstars ! I stumbled upon an LTD for this tool named Inspector but I’m not experienced enough to know if it needs a lot of effort to integrate it within Wappler. What do you th…

3.7.1 - great update!

Just wanted to say thank you for the great update. Can’t put a finger on it but for me it just feels more refined, faster, clearer, and all around like a Sports version of Wappler… Black magic and v…

Renaming a project folder

I want to rename a project folder e.g. from “Project1” to “Project2”. Is there any ‘best’ way to do this? Thanks

Possibility to simplify AppConnect syntax for better readability and beyond. Thought?

We know in recent trend, many developers are abandoning jQuery for vanilla or other techs like the Vue and React but here we use the AppConnect that works with Wappler UI. Even though we can achieve a…

What "Wappler" means in Austria

I guess people already have told you but if not let me enlighten you with a fun fact: In Austria, “Wappler” means idiot. And especially in the upper regions of this small country, this word is being …

Sviluppatore Italiano

C’è in questa community uno sviluppatore italiano che mi possa aiutare nel completare una pagina per la mia applicazione ? Anche a pagamento. Grazie

Talking to Hardware

Has anyone had any experience or can share ideas on how potentially I could read data from a physical device? My aim is to connect a serial device over com port which generates ZPL label data. I need…

Windows 10 Javascript Data Structure and Data Editor

I have an application where I want to build a complex data structure which is local to the application… hence I want to create the data structure and the data that goes with it in a javascript file. C…

Low code survey

There is a survey regarding low code development. I already submitted it and it won’t take more than 3 mins to complete. Anyone who wants can submit his answers. It is a nice way to let the world …

Kudos to the team at Wappler this software is absolutely amazing

Hey there guys just downloaded and installed Wappler yesterday. I just need to say one thing: WAPPLER IS UNBELIEVABLE!!! Being a frontend designer it perhaps goes without saying that I am visual lear…

Very Long Running PHP Scripts - How to Make it Work With Wappler

Hi. I found this post relevant to the point I wish to get some insights on: Long server action freezes up the entire website Similar to what is described in the post, I too have created an extremely…

Analytics

Is there any free alternatives to Google analytics these days? What are people using now? Been awhile since I added analytics to a site.

Cookies notification functionality

Hello all, wishing you a happy new year. Discovered this service below which is about creating cookie notification functionality. Looks really great, very easily customizable, and from what it look…

All google products, including gmail are down as of Dec 14th, 2020

Just as a FYI, all google products, including gmail are currently down as of December 14, 2020. Which is annoying since I have Google Drive on my Mac and it keeps popping up with a sign-in box. http…

Web and Android Mobile Package (including deployment to Play-Store, all code, training)

Spurred on by @mebeingken and his recent offering we are considering providing the following: Android Mobile/Data-Web Package ‘One’ will include: Back-End PHP API Creation (data source for Web an…

Just read the Wappler Year in Review at Medium - wow, what a great year it's been

A huge well done to Team Wappler. I’ve just read the year in review and can’t believe how much has been done. It’s made me even more excited for what 2021 has in store. Happy Christmas everyone

How would you handle/deploy multi-tenancy with Wappler?

Hi All, So just a general chat for some of your thoughts and experiences on how you might (or have) go about handling and/or deploying a multi-tenant app from a Wappler side of things? So firstly, n…

Has Wappler ever thought about going FOSS?

Hi team, Not asking for it. Just curious if you as a team ever gave it a thought and why you decided against it or that it is not the time or else. I am not talking about the pricing and business mo…

Low cost VPS comparison by PHP creator

https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing From that list I like Hetzner and Scaleway. Very cheap and extremely good.

Talking of Oracles... What About Blockchain Databases?

The post about Oracle got me thinking… The future of data storage could be decentralised and blockchain based. Does anyone know of any database products out there yet that tap into this technology? …

Scheduled Actions Monitoring

Is there a way to either log or alert me when a scheduled action either fails or is unresponsive? For PHP cron jobs I tend to enable server logs and then also use https://healthchecks.io/ to alert me …

My Beef with Bootstrap

Beef #1: jQuery Beef #2: CSS Example: If I lived in the tropics (e.g. Cairns), I do not need a heater in my car. Yet every time I buy a car I have to pay for the heater. The same goes for jQuery an…

Free svg avatar generator

Hey all, came across this - might be nice for those that have a lot of users within their application: Examples: https://multiavatar.com/

Sockets live chat and DBs

Hey guys, With the new update (thank you Wappler team, truly brilliant work @George, @patrick and @Teodor) I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts are on live chat. Without knowing this was coming,…

Italian users

Salve a tutti gli utenti italiani. Ho intenzione di creare una community per agevolare l’interazione in italiano. Chi è interessato risponda e magari suggerisca come procedere in concreto. Teo ha sugg…

Marketing automation for end-users

Hey all, Has anyone ever worked on a project such as Hubspot, or Lemlist, or Customer.io etc. where the platform provides marketing automaton functionality to end users. E.g. you can send sequenced e…

Do You Dabble in Crypto?

Hello Wapplers… I’m very interested in buying into some crypto projects, and would love to find some like-minded friends to share the journey with… let me know if you are interested!

The End of Dreamweaver?

During the last MAX sessions, Adobe introduced the XD Visual Studio Code Plugin. Why not for Dreamweaver? Have a look at the workflow: TLTR: It took this guy 40 minutes to create (€50…

If you have a high traffic volume blog - would you put it on a separate DB?

Hey all, Curious what the consensus might be here. Our app sits on our main sql DB, wondering if you’d look to separate out the DB for basic dynamic blog content to avoid any load on the core apps DB…

Stock imagery

Any suggestions for high quality/high resolution stock images? We use Adobe Stock but as we are decreasing our use of Adobe software/services it would be great to have some recommendations for altern…

My Medium Article on why Wappler is the greatest low-code platform ever

Here’s the link if you want to give Wappler some love:

We now on hourly updates? ;-)

I see 3.5.4 is now out but haven’t seen any release notes posted. Three updates in one day. That’s about two years in Adobe time. Wappler team is dedicated that’s for sure!

Low code future

Those who might worry about the future of low-code development can read the following GARTNER PREDICTS: “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application…

For those with two DB's one application - where do you store your sign-up table

Hey all, Going to introduce a second DB shortly, for a specific feature. Current constructing the schema and wondering how/where most here who use two db’s might store their user credentials. Do you …

Anyone hyped about today's keynote? :computer:

New Macs with ARM architecture. Hopefully Rosetta 2 will be enough to run Wappler on them until ARM packages of everything that is needed for Wappler are released.

New User of the Month

Congratulations, you’ve earned the New User of the Month award for October 2020 . … Woohoo! lol

Any SMS marketing platforms built on Wappler?

I am looking for a SMS marketing platform and I was wonder if anyone has built one in wappler, I would be interested in taking a look at it and maybe being a customer. Thanks

Bootstrap 5 Timeline

According to Bootstrap website a stable release will be release in December: Bootstrap 5 v5.0.0-alpha2 in September 2020 (delayed due to team vacations) v5.0.0-alpha3 in October 2020 (additional new…

Can you use Wappler for a php script that is pre-built?

I have own a copy phpprobid bought it years ago and I would like to change it around a touch and I was wondering if I could use Wappler for this?

The moment you hit the wall

That moment you hit the wall and everything goes blank in your head about a website you are building. You question yourself about everything in it…how on earth do you deal with it to get your head bac…

Node and Docker Survey

The forum seems to be pretty much dominated by posts and reports related to Node and Docker technologies I am intrigued to know if this is because everyone is using node and/or docker or if this is d…

Error Monitoring

Asking for suggestions on error monitoring, primarily for PHP & NodeJS web apps. I understand that Wappler uses Sentry. Anybody with experience using other products?

Dynamic ogp image

anyone tried? I searched this topic on this forum, but I could not find any post…

Intelligent Tracking Prevention with Wappler mobile apps

Okay all you mobile Devs – what the heck is going to happen to Wappler/Cordova apps using cookie based auth control with Apple’s release of Intelligent Tracking Prevention (defaulting to On) ?

Fast server

BACKGROUND I run several e-commerce businesses one on wordpress/woocommerce, two on Shopify and one on bubble. I have a developer starting next week to embark on learning Wappler and building the fir…

How do you manage email servers with Docker/DO?

Hi, I m trying to use Digital Ocean’s droplet with Docker for the first time. I wish to ask you: in case of deployment of a website on a droplet, how do you manage the mail server? Do you use a sepa…

Does anyone have problems with their sites on Windows 7?

I have been working on this particular site for 2 years now and I get very frustrated with some of the feedback from the client. Most of the time it seems to be because of cache issues. He has got int…

Any Wapplers in Australia?

Hi All, Still very new here, and yet to actually subscribe as I’m still learning what I can before diving in for the trial and ongoing subscription costs. The community has been great so far, but ju…

How do I change calendar events?

I have built a calendar using two data source tables. One for individual events and one for reoccurring events. Each event has their own server action to add an event. A modal was built to ask the use…

Can you use both PHP and Node.JS in a Project?

Is it possible to build part of your project in PHP and then other parts in Node.JS? Would there be any benefit to this? Would you have to create 2 projects that would save to same site? Thanks

Have you always been a programmer? Trade prior to Wappler

I will start, I have always be in the technology industry. Started in the public education sector, went to a private financial firm, then worked for an IT consulting firm and then went into the public…

What MySQL Database Issues Occur on Real Live Apps?

So I’m not too far from going live with my app, and I am wondering what new issues will come along as suddenly I have lots of people using it. I’d love to collect the feedback of those who have worke…

Local Storage clearing after refresh?

We are seeing an issue where local storage (Data Store component) is being emptied upon reload, or browsing to another page, for some reason? There is no clearing of storage happening within the page…

Happy Programmer's Day to all!

Happy Day everybody!! I gonna quote Wikipedia for those who don’t know why today is the programer’s day: " The Day of the Programmer is an international professional day that is celebrated on the…

Using external libraries (Non Wappler Question)

Another Coffee Lounge question to try expand my understanding. Trying to get this working When you scroll down their instructions you find a big heading called API which confuses me a little bec…

Strategy Question

I need a bit of expert advice. In Wappler you have a number of viewports in which to program. Wappler is quite handy in seeing how the development appears in those viewports. The issue that I have is,…

Novato - Wappler in Brazil

Good afternoon, confreres. I am from Brazil and beginner in the Wappler world. I come from Cobol and Wlanguage (Windev from PcSoft). I hope I’m not boring with the common questions of a beginner. …

Thoughts on Documentation

I just wanted to get a general idea of what people are feeling about the documentation in Wappler currently. Wappler Official Documentation has 108 mini tutorials currently, covering almost all subje…

Online meetup

It’s been a while since our first online meetup and a lot has happened. When will we be having another one? Monthly was suggested and I’d definitely be up for that. @Antony, what do you reckon?

Dreamweaver on it's deathbed?

I know many of us came here from Dreamweaver and using DMX Extensions so this may be relevant. I registered for Adobe Max this morning and I noticed that there are no sessions at all available for Dr…

Internet of Things (IoT)

With Wappler’s great API connection abilities, we have been connecting our devices (Dock Lifeguards) to thinger.io, service seems ok but a bit lacking in documentation. Its good now you can create yo…

That feeling when you realize how dumb you are

Just had one of those moments. Thank god I didn’t open a bug report. One has a reputation to maintain.

Server side vs client side

If you had a website with thousands of users that made calculations all day on site - would client side processing use significantly less server resources? I never thought of this and am curious…

Wappler in 4K

normally i work in 1/4th of the display but sometimes its just gorgeous to have sooooo much real estate for Wappler. btw, its a Acer DM431K 43" 4K display.

Setting up an external CMS with NodeJS + Static website

Hello everyone, I would like to have some feedback in setting up a CMS like Strapi or Prismic in Wappler. I see pretty much how I can use those to edit the content on existing pages: I fetch the co…

Animate Elements some inspiration

I’ll put that into Coffee Lounge and not into Feature request. I’m wondering if anybody heard about Google Webdesigner? It has some very interesting interaction approaches how to guide the user trough…

When the next update

Wonder what’s happening next and when

Marketplace - multiple user type - thoughts around setting the db structure

Hi all, Currently we have a User table, then in the User table we have a User Type and a Joined Table for the type of user they are. I’ve set this up this way as Bubble forces you to use one user tab…

Bug tags are great

Thanks Guys…this really does help a lot:

Nice Video

Nice video btw, it might have been there a while but I only just noticed it on the homepage!

HTML and CSS Vocabularies

I thought that I would share these useful vocabularies so that we all speak the same language: http://apps.workflower.fi/vocabs/

What is wappler. - from the client's perspective

how to explain to clients. what is a wappler. whether wappler is the same as codeigniter, laravel or php code generator like phpmaker. thanks

Which server model?

I currently have several web sites and each of those use php with a mysql database. I also have an internal web site for employees that uses classic asp but (i’m told) I should get away from that. We…

Is there anyone here from South Australia?

I’m looking to employ someone who is a Wappler god, is there anyone on here from South Australia who is looking for some work?

Sharing modules/templates

Hi Guys! I was talking with my friend @AdrianoLuiz and would be very nice to have a library of user’s projects to share between Wappler users, for example: Login Login with Facebook Front end templ…

Showcase Apps (Rather than Web Sites)

Is it true there are no real showcased apps (rather than Web sites) we can show potential new Wappler users? If so, can a few people come forwards with an app to showcase?

Would transition of images be possible

I’m always looking for inspiration for websites. I have to say I really like this site https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro-16/ The way the images flow through the website is awesome, which leads me …

Any Wappler users in Los Angeles?

Any users in LA? Let’s have a meetup if I’m not the only one.

Why hash passwords?

For many years, I have been in the habit of hashing the passwords in the database and I was wrapped when I discovered that Wappler makes this process so easy. Working on my latest project, I question…

Wappler like a boss... happened yesterday to me

Hi guys, just sharing with you something happened to me yesterday with Wappler to make you smile! Yesterday I entered an accounting office while they were covered with sheets of paper and excel shee…

When your Mac slows down

After some frustrating sessions with things slowing down and crashes, I came to the conclusion that it was time for a new Mac Book. Bonus thing now is Sidecar working on an iPad Pro means I can now u…

Wappler as an App

Do you think Wappler will ever be set up as an app to work on things like an iPad ? It would be an awesome addition to be able to use it on one of these. Any thoughts @George ?

It's like Christmas morning

but we already know what’s under the tree…or do we.

Translation service

Just wondering if anyone has any positive or negative feedback to using something like this for site translations, i mean with zero code or server setup it sounds good. https://gtranslate.io/?xyz=316…

Norton flagging site as dangerous

HI all I am working on a new site for a customer and put together a quick and dirty site temporarily (ironically the customer loves it, i don’t) He has been contacted by a customer who says Norton a…

How many DB query's do you have in an action file?

Hi All, Just wanted to get people’s thoughts on how many DB query’s or steps you might have in a single server connect ‘action file’ before you start adding new files? Naturally i try to create a lo…

What server?

**i I have 5 days left on my trial and I don’t know who to get a server connection. Am I supposed to be using my own server? Or do you have one for the trial?**

I can’t see

Hi, I have just started using Wappler. Everything is dark and I can barely see it. Is there a way to change the interface to a light mode? Thanks for your help.

Do humans work here?

How do I talk to someone about pricing, etc?

File Encryption

Looking for suggestions on encrypting user uploaded files server-side, before using an S3-compatible API to upload to a third-party object storage service. The reason for this is because I will be de…

DNS Question

I have taken over a site and the DNS is a bit of a mess right now. Domain Name is with UK2.net who is also a hosting provider however the site is NOT hosted with them. Website is hosted on a VPS wit…

How Do You Protect Yourself From Developer Penetration?

In my post about wanting a professional hacker (which I now know to be a process called penetration testing), @Dave pointed out that often the issue isn’t about your site being targetted, but your own…

Looking for a Professional Hacker

I’m a few months from launching my product, and I want - no, need - it to be as secure as possible. So in a few weeks time, when I think I’ve done all the standard things that make it secure, I’d lik…

Docker understanding

Can someone please try help my brain work out the docker process a little better. Currently I have a dedicated server, this server has CentOs 7 installed and WHM Root. If I wanted a brand new domain…

Node.js npm questions

Just looking for some advice. Now that we have node.js and npms we can install, would it be advisable to install npm packages of things you know are probably coming to Wappler at some stage. In my c…

Observations I recently encountered with a new Wappler user

I recently suggested Wappler to a designer buddy of mine for his personal website, he ran the trial and pretty much gave up, saying it was too difficult, considering that his website is not a money ma…

What are people using for planning websites

Is there any recommendations for software for planning websites? Need something that I can plan the pages and database notes in, so I can plan the flow of the site

When will version 3 become stable?

I know that you’re not psychic but the reason I ask is because I am about to undertake a new long-term project and would like to build it on Node, but, only if server components are ready. I saw elsew…

What is Node.js and why would I use it?

Here is a chance for Node.js supporters to sell me on the concept. What is it? Why would I sue it over PHP? What can it do that PHP can’t? Please sell me on this excitement!

Design resources

Stumbled upon this:

Wrong accents: ã ̈ instead of è... Dreamweaver 2019 with Database Updater 2

Hi everybody, I have a problem with DW2019 with Database Updater 2 (ASP server model) Accented characters are not inserted correctly in my SQL Server 2017 (also tried in Server 2012), as if the past …

Database Table Engine Question

Not a Wappler specific question so I am posting this in the lounge. I have several old tables in my database that are MyISAM. Is it safe to simply convert them to InnoDB? I know I can convert them in…

Your Views On Future User Gatherings

Woohoo… we have had our first user gathering and it was, I believe, a great success. There is a video demo from George of the Database Manager, and some sightings at the end of us mere mortal users, …

User Gathering on Friday, 4pm CET - The Plan and How You Can Contribute!

Hey everyone, Thanks for all your feedback about the User Gathering! It looks like we will have around 7-8 attendees, so this message is primarily aimed at those of you who wish to come: @brad, @Mar…

DMX DW Extensions

Looks like the DMX Zone DW extensions has been slowly going silent. Has the team started the end of DW extension development and concentrating solely on Wappler? Glad I made the switch!

First Wappler User Gathering - This Friday 4-6pm CET - CAN YOU INDICATE YOUR INTEREST LEVEL PLEASE?

Hello fellow Wapplers… Thanks for your feedback about the User Gatherings! So based on what you have said, I have modified the date/time for our gathering next week… see the title here and the detail…

Tables, or Rows and Columns?

I’ve got lots of tabular data to display in some quite complex ways in my app over the coming weeks… … so much more than just a standard bootstrap 4 table generator creates… some columns have an inpu…

Searching the forum - click cmd/ctrl F twice in your browser

If you want to override the forum’s shortcut when searching a conversation, and use your browser’s default search shortcut, click Cmd/Ctrl+F twice… I know this is a simple thing, but it saved me fro…

Wappler User Gatherings on Zoom! - Proposal for First Gathering on Thursday 14th May

Hello fellow Wapplers… Well after some time thinking about this, I have decided I would like to be the catalyst for starting some real, live and interactive Wappler User Gatherings on Zoom. The Gen…

MySQL Stored Procedure Learning Resources

Glad my comments were useful @StevenM! I like learning from the MySQL Tutorial folks… see their link below. But I basically quite quickly got a couple of snippets together and just went from there.…

Countdown to 3.0

Just taking a seat. And of course

Money Related Data - Do you Use Decimals or Integers?

So a big part of my app handles money and stripe payments, and I am debating with myself whether to do all my money related calculations and data storage as Decimal types or Integer types… So as a de…

Crafting emails. What do you guys use?

What do you guys use normally to design emails? Desktop/web apps? Paid/Free Boilerplates? Email frameworks(Foundation for emails, Mjml, Maizzle (on top of Tailwind CSS!))? Plain text?

PHP Server Side Set Value versus Set Session - Performance/Memory Differences?

Do any of you PHP gurus know if there will be a performance or memory hit of any significance if I use Set Session versus Set Value when calculating 8-10 invoice related values doing some simple maths…

GatsbyJS (ridiculously fast and generic SEO compliant)

we’ve been working on a fairly large ecommerce project, a SPA built with Wappler, which will see the light of the day pretty soon (sneak peak here). we’ve had severe problems with setting up Google S…

How Do I Maintain Security in a Booking Form / Shopping Cart?

I’m creating a quite complex booking form, and some security questions are coming to mind as I work out the design. The form is for my user’s clients to use, so there can’t be any login process which…

Looking for DB migration and version control tool

I have searched and searched and then some more. I haven’t found anything that really integrates well with my workflow. All I see is complex solutions for complex databases but not simple solutions f…

Tools to test email based processes

Hi guys, Mailslurp. I just wanted to share with you a little neat service with a free tier. As you probably know I’m embarked on the mission to automate my app tests. As I am running a solo operatio…

Exposing mysql database as API

Came across the following service on 1 of the indie hackers email updates. It offers a variety of services for your data, including exposing a mysql db as rest API. https://phiona.com Are there any …

Am I the only one that does these type of things when testing? Serious topic

Apologies for the swearing. One of the things I hate the most is writing dull messages for things I am testing so I just start writing stupid things. What do people use for dummy content? And do y…

This weeks update

I wonder what delights we are going to get in this weeks update. Update day is now my favorite day of the week.

Playing around with PWA

This is exciting stuff. Have a look at this short video using this website https://hollandtrade.com.au/ If there is enough interest in the subject, I will create a tutorial based on this re…

Hosting Server questions

Putting this in the Coffee Lounge as it is un related to Wappler, suffice to say, if you are having issues with scripts, and thinking it might be a Wappler issue, after reading this you might consider…

Stuck in South Africa

No more playing with Wappler. Stuck in S-A for an unknown period of time. Only a phone and a tablet. I miss playing with Wappler.

Using Nanobox for automating deployment of Docker

Nanobox looks like a pretty cool way to help automate deployment of apps. Unfortunately it was acquired by Digital Ocean, so sign ups have been temporarily disabled.

YouTube Video Training on Project

Hi guys, I am pretty sure most of you are aware that I have done some YouTube training videos when Wappler was still in it’s beta stages. Now I am busy working on the next. So a couple questions to s…

What An Honour

I’ve just got my “Gives Back” badge! I didn’t know such a thing existed, but it is a great honour to be ranked next to such Wappler devotees!

Appointment system

I am needing to create an appointment system where clients can book appointments online with specific staff members. I can’t see any possible way of doing this with Wappler, so I guess I am looking to…

Gain back some Chrome performance (Windows)!

Fed up with Chrome sucking your disk usage and memory, slowing things down… Remove the Software Reporter Tool! C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\SwReporter\41.202.200.3 De…

Need To Get a Life Badge

Seems I hit a milestone I didn’t even know existed.

Anyone Fancy a UK Meet Up

Committing to a new technology is always a concern, especially ones that are fresh off the block. I’m new to Wappler (only a few weeks old) however I’m already convinced that Wappler will be a future …

App Connect Flows: What am I missing?

Ok, so I have looked over the new getting started doc on Flows. I have to say that a better example could have been thought of to show its powers. That use case was a little underwhelming to be pol…

Npm acquired by github

Very interesting and exciting! Especially as we’ve been discussing node.js and it’s potential use in Wappler.

The day I met the legend

Was going through some old photos and came across this one from Adobe Max in 2014. Thats me in front and the legend (@George) at the podium. Seems like so long ago! It’s a little blurry but should …

Using Lighthouse analysis

This is exciting, first time that I have seen fireworks!

Problem with the latest version of Chrome

Has anyone else noticed that Chrome Version 80.0.3987.132 is not HTTP/2 enabled? Or is it just me? This forum is served with HTTP/2, yet this is what I get

Using Wappler on Linux

Am very happy in the server environment using the console but moving over to desktop is a different thing… Last time I did this was around 2000, twenty years ago (around the Debian Potato release per…

End of Asp Classic Support

I have been an asp classic user for way too long. Why? Habit mostly, I guess. But now as wappler isn’t going to be updating asp components any longer or much longer I need to look at migration path…

Where Do You Live?

I often think in maps and locations… … and I start to wonder where you are sitting as you share your experiences with everyone… I’m in Cornwall, England. https://goo.gl/maps/FoVyXFL2nqjWRDtX9

Just so you know

Hi All Just wanted to everyone know/ apologise for not being around much recently. I have just taken over management of a company which is in a bit of a mess and frankly it is 12 hrs a day, 7 days a…

Are You An App Entrepreneur?

Hey everyone… We all use Wappler for different reasons. I am building a business to business app which I will sell, which makes me an “App Entrepreneur” (to be!). As such I am going to have to do m…

Disable if for accordions

This is so non Wappler related that im sticking it in the Coffee Lounge for anyone that feels like it. With accordions I sometimes have a situation where i may have a group of 6 of them, and one of t…

Good day to backup!

This is a public service broadcast… Remember to backup before you install updates (or get in to the habbt of doing so at the start of every work day, not just for updates). Well, just backup anyway …

It's Thursday...and I didn't realize

I got aroused. And I only read the first two lines: “Huge Update! Meet the new Wappler App Connect Flow! Finally you can now make sophisticated client side workflows!”

Introducing..... WapStrap CSS Framework/Theme Creator!

Several coffees at the cafe are responsible for this… So I warn you… WapStrap CSS Framework/Theme Creator Simple: Template page displays in Wappler based upon Bootstrap classes to keep it sim…

Support for other frameworks other than Bootstrap?

Are there any plans to include alternatives to Bootstrap like Materialize, Bulma, and Tailwind (did see a thread or two on here about Tailwind)? We are seeing more and more applications built with th…

Wonder what new add ons will happen this week

Personally I’m keeping fingers crossed for the calendar extension. I always look forward to Friday’s ( Thursday for most people)

What do you use if not curl or wget

I have a site that I need to get all images from as well as retain a little structure, so because I am in os x I tried the built in curl first, which works, however every image it downloads as a .jpg …

Assets folders that return a 404 error

So we start a website, add our first page, index.php or index.html, and within the first few minutes we need some images, so we create a folder called images or assets and shove a whole bunch of image…

How your antivirus software tracks you

I’ve seen quite a few people in this community using Avast antivirus software and also having issues using it. Here’s an interesting article, pointing to two other articles explaining how they track …

Working with Arrays?

I had a bit of down time today so I thought I would explore learning something new in Wappler. I chose Arrays and they are a completely foreign concept for me. I was able to work through the document…

New found respect for Wappler Team

I have just spent the entire day trying to implement croppie functionality into my website, and failed dismally, so now I am creating my own using pretty much only the wappler provided tools. It’s ug…

Screensavers using Action Scheduler!

One of the most surprising sets of feedback this week for our little team is the joy our screensavers have given to a team of sales reps stuck in an office… And a further client with a large staff ba…

Love the speed of version 2.5.1

Working on larger SPA’s, the previous versions were becoming sluggish and non-responsive. This required frequent restarts. It even necessitated the removal of Avast Cleanup to reclaim system resources…

Delays on Mac with bulk file operations

It’s hard to pinpoint exact times (I will make note from now on) but it seems as I start to add more packages through app connect (i.e - dmxBrowser, dmxFormatter) it’s almost like a cache kicks in and…

On Click Elements in a Single Page App - Buttons, Links or Paragraphs?

So I’m creating a single page app. There are a gzillion things my users can click on to make things happen. Some appear as text, some as icons, and some as buttons. But since it is a single page, th…

Themes for Wappler Development in 2020

I’m curious about two things… Does the Wappler team have a list of more general themes they would like to guide the product development during 2020? So maybe complete new areas of the product to r…

Who needs a College Degree, I can have a Mac Pro!

@Hyperbytes, my friend, I know what I would like for Christmas. I really appreciate your willingness to get this for me… And it has FREE delivery !! I wonder, can I run Wappler on this ??? What …

Why are Hackers so eager to harm people

So as you all know I share many screenshots as well as youtube videos where sometimes sensitive information may be missed while trying to show tutorials, so today I get a notification that IP address …

Discount code for Acronis True Image Backup

We backup a lot, and then again, and again, to several devices. We also use online backup from Acronis. We have always been a fan of their hosted services. Also a huge fan of LTT so was happy to ge…

Happy new year!

Happy new year and best wishes to everyone! And big thanks to Wappler Team for a great 2019.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. I’m very happy to be part of this wonderfully supportive community! Best wishes, Antony.

Better Coding

Coming from mostly a PHP background, and then a heavy user of DMXtensions, what would be some extra areas of learning, (i.e., coding languages, or other items) in order to understand all the possibili…

How to add flashing xmas lights in wappler

Very cool lights (purple green and blue) fading in and out on the wappler page for xmas - how is that done in wappler? I tried looking at the web site code but could not figure it out. In any case ha…

Wappler Community a trend setter?

Just noticed this little beastie when I went to my favourite hideout: Decided to click on it and voilà, a new app on my desktop Thought I would let Lighthouse do it’s thing, with the following r…

Help with Server

Hi, I am Francoise, a French Canadian based in Halifax, Canada. I am a new Wappler lover. My background is in HTML, CSS, MySQL and PHP (and Wordpress), plus other programming languages. But I do not …

Top Three Missing Wappler Features

As much as Docker and GIT integration is great for Wappler it doesn’t really help me provide any extra value to my employer or freelance clients. Here is my top three missing features: 1: eCommerce …

Wappler in the Western World?

Seems to me that when I wake up in the morning I have a long list of unread topics to read through. Then nothing for the rest of the day? That indicates to me that Wappler is popular in the Eastern p…

What programming language are you using with Wappler

I am curious what programming language everyone is using with Wappler? poll

Docker vs. MAMP

My employer has surprised me by ordering me a new 16" MacBook Pro. I want to set up all my current and future projects with a local server. Do I go with Docker or MAMP? What are the advantages one ove…

Wappler VLOG?

Would it be possible to film a Wappler VLOG once a month possibly? We all know you work very hard so fitting it in might be difficult, so we wouldn’t expect Tarantino style editing and effects, but w…

Welcome Bubblers! (An honest review)

As an ex Bubble user myself, I wanted to welcome those who are thinking of moving to Wappler probably because of this news For those that are thinking of making the switch, I would say this… IMHO Wa…

Black friday

@George is the 20% discount only available for new sign ups? or if I swap back to yearly subscription is this 20% available for me to use??

This community is awesome :)

Hey everyone So I made my first post to the community a few days ago with some questions I had, and I received so many relevant and helpful responses back so quickly > this community is awesome!!

How to be dumb for thirty minutes

Spend over thirty minutes trying to debug why your input doesn’t work only to realise your submit button was outside of your form… Coffee time me thinks!

How hard would a kanban board be to make?

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with kanban boards, but you can drag and drop cards in-between lanes or columns. Does Wappler have everything built in to do that? Where if you drag from ar…

Mac Issues - Its much better now

@George @Teodor As you know I’ve been having issues with Wappler and Mac for the last 2 updates. Today, I took the plunge and removed Wappler and did a fresh install. Hooray, its back to a much bet…

Finally Finished the wCart Tutorial

Having been under pressure from more influential types (my clients), I finally managed to finish the Tutorial. To see a working example, please go to https://hollandtrade.com.au/wcart/. Many thanks f…

Bubble & CloudFlare... Slowly catching up

For those still involved with Bubble, they have launched CloudFlare optimisation for existing users. Finally in the right direction but will only help with static content. They will still have the …

Could this be a good second job

Only got paid £85 but plenty of on the job perks?

Advice on Mac Specs

Firstly may I state I plan to remain developing on the Windows Platform so people understand the context of this question. I have had a increasing number of customers ask Apple specific questions and…

Database Advice

In need of some advice for my next project. It’s a web app used by firms to service their clients, record payments and generate recurring bills. I plan to then publish an API to allow their web desig…

The Wappler

One closed platform for the Webflowers in cuckoo-land Seven units of capacity for Bubblers in their halls of despair Nine digits for Outsystems doomed for caviar One integration for the Wapplers in…

Somebody implemented Swagger?

Did someone already implement https://Swagger.io to provide customers your own API Access to your project?

Guided Tour

Looking to build a guided tour for an app ala Hopscotch (now unmaintained.) Would like to have highlight element capability, responsive behavior, and nice to have would be having the user actually cl…

Screencastify for sharing your screen

Just wanted to share a little tool called Screencastify that makes sharing issues, or anything else, super easy. It’s a Chrome add-on that allows you to share your Chrome tab or entire desktop. Once y…

Darkmode and its future?

I think darkmode will be the future so I‘m wondering where to take care about integration. Is it smth which a website developer should implement fully? Or is it maybe more of a „switch“ logic within…

Firefox Developer Edition

Anyone else using this browser to develop? Thoughts?

So what will update Thursday bring?

Being there was no update last week, how big and awesome do you think update Thursday will be this week?

Scorpio stock images

Anyone tried this service, currently £29 lifetime subscription makes it tempting

And I thought a Mac might make mobile app development easier!

I mistakenly assumed that, as most of the current mobile app development platforms appear to be developed on Linux/Unix platforms, a Mac may make things a little easier Seems exactly the same issues …

Bulk Email sender with API

I want to integrate a bulk mailer into my new startup site. Any recommendations where I can use an API or other method to send my server connect data to to be mailed to hundreds and hopefully eventua…

Peak Forum Traffic

Anyone notice the extra forum traffic on the Thursday, like we are all waiting for Santa (Sint Nikolaas) to pop in.

Finally free from the hold of Dreamweaver

After using DW since pre-release of the very first version, today I can finally say that I have no more projects that I need to edit in DW. All have either been discontinued or redone in Wappler. I …

Recommendation for a good Bootstrap Admin Theme

Hi, I’m looking for good Bootstrap 4 Admin Themes which works good with Wappler. Any recommendations? I used to use wrapbootstrap themes but had difficulties to work with them in Wappler. Does som…

Podcasts

I get to drive 62 miles 1 way to work and always looking to better myself in both the technology world and self improvement. With that said I was wondering if anyone had any good podcast they recommen…

New Font - Cascadia Code

Microsoft has announced a cool new free to use font with something amazing - Programming Ligatures. Haven’t seen this before in any other font. Looks like something Wappler can integrate as the nativ…

Do I smell a FB Login Component? 😝

Not sure, but is it possible that our amazing Wappler Dev Team is planning a FB Login Component?

We started a marketing community. Check it out!

Totally unrelated to Wappler, but I’m helping my wife build a community for Marketers. We just opened it up and are looking for others to join. If you’re interested in marketing or have marketing ques…

Event based site examples

Anyone have examples of event based websites, where you have an agenda or list view of the events coming up and independent event page with title, description, location, photos, etc… Allowing front en…

Wanna use a free geocoding service?

Just found a really cool comparison for gecoding services : https://getlon.lat

Thursday afternoons are a highlight of the week

I am now using Wappler almost full-time and keeping this community open in my browser permanently. Just wanted to say that Thursday afternoons are very much a highlight of every week as I refresh to s…

Are you guys super coders or what?

Hey guys, After seen 2.2.1 I have to ask because I am really curious. How can you deliver so much and so fast? I would love to know a bit about your story. How many people work on Wappler? What meth…

Javascript SEO, routing or static

Google refuses to render my cool Wappler pages. https://tools.pingdom.com/#5b368b024e800000 says too many HTTP request on an otherwise A-B grade. Google inspect https://search.google.com/search-conso…

Wappler vs DMXZone

I know DMXZone owns Wappler however I am curious where do the features on DMXZone fit into the puzzle? Is everything on DMXZone already built into Wappler? If you know Wappler do you need anything f…

Webinars and more

hi all Looking forward to first webinar. Please get involved and help make them a success. Just to let you all know I will be taking the opportunity to grab a short holiday before they start so will…

What is wappler written in?

Just out of interest what is the wappler editor written in? I love the fact that you guys are muli platform so I assume you’re using some kind of framework? Just interested

New member here

Hello! I’m just getting started with Wappler. Previously built websites with wordpress, Clickfunnles and Builderall. I was looking a solution to build my own app, so I started looking… I had to c…

Wupdate Thursday is back!

So great to have you guys back…Wupdate (or is it Wapdate?) Thursday is alive and well!!!

InnoDB vs. MyISAM

I notice that when I create tables in Navicat, sometimes it creates a MyISAM table instead of an InnoDB table. What are the advantages of each and which is best to use?

Site Root vs Document

I tend to use ‘Document’ in my site settings. I have no specific reason for it other than I really haven’t had any issues with it. Which do you guys use? Reasons? Pros and cons of either one?

GitLab and GitHub

I read today that Microsoft has made free private GitHub repositories (which were previously something like $8/mo)… so while we have our own local gitlabs install for rapid deploy to multiple servers,…

My cheap Chinese charger..... Office madness ensues!

How about a device that can knock out routers, monitors, vinyl cutters, printers and portable hard-drives… How about a €15 cheap Chinese replacement laptop charger… Been driving me mad for days every…

Wappler Freelance /Jobs Portal and very first Wappler Contest

Hi everybody, As some of you already know I am planning to launch freelance/job portal for Wappler lovers. The current eta will be end of August. When the portal is done I like to organize a kind of…

Pinegrow comes with CSS Grid

This is their announcement: Today we released Pinegrow 4.9 with a full set of powerful visual tools for CSS Grid that can help you with: • Editing the grid layout • Managing named areas and named t…

Facebook Mentorship Groups

Came across this and wondered if there would be place for such a project within the Wappler Community. Thoughts please?

PVII Founder

Since many of us have come here from a Dreamweaver background, I am sure many of you have come to know Al Sparber of Project VII Design Extensions fame and long time Dreamweaver forum contributor. He…

Starter Template for Wappler

Here is a quick template I put together that you can use as the base for a new Project in Wappler. BS4 CDN. HTML/CSS. Smooth Scroll. Collapsible navigation. Six sections (each will fit the browser w…

Wappler Community website Issue on iPhone over LTE

Is anyone else having issues loading https://community.wappler.io on an iPhone when using a LTE connection? If I am connected to WIFI it works fine, but NEVER with a LTE connection. I always get an er…

SEO and SPA best practices

First off, thanks to the team for adding SEO Meta tools! I look forward to learning what all the options do. I notice that the Meta Options are only available on the main page of a SPA site. I assum…

Team Size

How many people are on the Wappler team? The product seems excellent and does not have 100 employees like Webflow. No idea why they need so many. Development seems very active on Wappler.

Producthunt.com

Idea: you should submit Wappler to producthunt.com - it will certainly create some buzz around Wappler and attract lots of new forward-thinking users! Now is also the best time because of V2.

What would Jesus do? JSON, MySQL or something else?

Hi all, I need to create a hotel/Airbnb-style web for a client. I was supposed to design the site using Bootstrap while the client’s in-house server/database guy was going to use Umbraco to create t…

Replacement for Fireworks, vector editor

As I did not renew my Adobe license this year I am looking for a replacer for Fireworks in Windows. I used this prgram for making vector and bitmap graphics with text and shadoweffects. It was also ea…

Looking for suggestions on forum software

Hi, I know with a bit of work something could be made to operate like forum software with Wappler. I would not want to take that on with so many already made products (that are free). I know there ar…

Greetings

Hello from Hungary !

Can Wappler Clone this Site?

Hi, I am looking to build a simplified clone of https://addwish.com. Users should be able to sign up and be able to create X number of wishlists (each an individual page e.g. website.com/lists/joes-bi…

We are reaching 2.0 and I‘m wondering

… how you (@George) and dev team are able to provide such a constant, amazing work over months and years!? Also wondering how a classic workday looks like in such a small team? How do you plan develop…

Wappler Application log information

Anyone at Wappler, My computer was stolen the other day. I was wondering if Wappler servers log any IP information. I know when my computer boots up, wappler automatically loads and checks version in…

APP Life!

Bit of fun, Hip-Hop with a flip-side…

Google Fonts, inconsistent across browsers

I have a site that only uses Google Fonts. In Google Chrome the font is perfect, in other words the letter spacing etc. allows the text to fit into the block as expected. Sadly if I look at the same …

CSS dynamically changing advice

Just trying to get a sense as to how I could go about this. I have a css rule called .textcolor { color: #333; } and in my page it is obviously called with <p class="textcolor">My Text</p> What if I…

Project timing with Wappler

I saw the below image and have to say that with Wappler it become true…

License Check

Im at the airport and wanted to go on with my Wappler Project on XAMPP and offline Mode but it changed to basic mode…

Suggestion - Target link on wappler community

Suggestion: when I click on external link in wappler community topics, the link page should open in a new tab

How to design or layout faster

Hello Wapplerfriends and @wappler_ambassadors I’m inviting you to share ideas how the process for designing wappler bootstrap layouts could be improved. I’ve found some interesting ways and want to s…

Wappler best pitch line

We know you all love Wappler and are using it as the best tool available, to build those amazing data driven websites and apps. But how would you describe it to new users in one line? Share your Wap…

What will be your first project when Server Side API is published?

All wappler users and @wappler_ambassadors What will be your first project when server side api is published? what do you think ?

Happy New Year Wappler

Happy New Year Wappler!! and all friends of the Wappler Team and all @wappler_ambassadors!!! best wishes to all Roberto

Sendmail, not Wappler related

I just want to ask, and it is totally unrelated to Wappler. I have a VPS server with InMotion Hosting running WHM with root access on CENTOS 7.6 and my website hosted on the server has an enquiry for…

Twig Template System with language translation?

If twig will be implemented, what would be great, then I’m questioning myself if it makes more sense to use twig and its variable engine to make translations or to use some other extension, jquery or …

What was smth. u changed after using Wappler

Maybe my title isnt so clear. But I‘m wondering what is the biggest change in how you do work in Wappler now, compared to 1 month or more? 1️⃣FIRST : For example I thought that I need to link every …

If George was Santa Claus what would be on your list

Just imagine for a moment that George was Santa and you could ask for five features or fixes for Xmas. What would they be? So here is my list. New (All quite connected tech-wise I guess) Server Con…

When Adobe hit your door

This is just an imaginary talk but if we consider what has happened with Interakt some years ago, if we remember all the triumph and bells that Spry was promoted from Adobe once upon a time and last b…

I just received an important call from Santa!

Santa had good news and bad news - the bad news. It looks like not everyone here made it to his nice list this year But (and this is the exciting part) the good news, is all you have to do is vote f…

Maybe there is only CRD

Some times I‘m thinking that in reality there is only CRD and not CRUD, cause Create and Update are so similar … What you think? I mean if I would make a new SQL Concept I would speak only of: S R D …

Visual development ideas

I couldn’t help thinking of Wappler when reading this. It’s quite a long article. The video link half way down is worth a look.

API not always working

I am curious about something. I built an API that communicates with a distributor when a person approves an order. It works. However, they are saying that a lot of orders don’t go through. And the d…

Cookie Policy / Security warnings question

This might be a strange question, however when using Wappler components obviously each component works in different ways, some like the geo location component would need me to add a warning on my site…

Italian Wappler users

Hi George, I would like to ask you if there are others Italians as clients for Wappler. My idea was to make a website like wappler-italia.com for Italian Market explaining in English but in Italian …

How hard would it be to make the visual web app creator web based?

I’m a full time design engineer. Since I’m not rich and I don’t use professional design suites for private purposes, I’ve moved to solutions like onshape.com for CAD (Computer Aided Design) and upvert…

Shame on me!? Girl vs Wappler Features

Completely offtopic ! Sorry…but I met a girl on Tinder so got a Date in 1.5h and normally I should hurry, but now I’m still sitting in front of my Laptop and downloading the new Wappler and wanna try…

Discobot stats are funny

Interesting Discobot reads alot but never posts What do you think about Discobot? Should he be connected then as a true API betatester when wappler integrates finally API? Maybe we should connect h…

Why a 'PRO' thinks Wappler is not for real pros

Since we had the talk on hashnode I am posting here the arguments that a ‘PRO’ developer has mentioned so we might discuss some more stuff around this and might come up with more ideas This is what h…

Bit.io might bring more new ideas and inspiration

Just saw a FB ad for this. Posting it here since it might bring some new ideas (newer from the already new I mean :)) for Wappler. Thank you

Discourse Update to mobile apps

Just a heads up for gys using discourse on their phone or ipad. The new update does not work with current discourse version of the Wappler forum. We need to wait for forum update before mobile apps wi…

Does Wappler support team collaboration?

Hello I’m new to Wappler but I want to know what the current capabilities of Wappler are. I’m looking to create an alternative to Zenefits.com so that’s how I found Wappler. Is it possible to create a…

Images vs Base64 database stored images and size

Would it be smaller or faster to store all images as Base64 encoded text in a database rather than linking out to a .jpg file?

Wapplerrin on the outside

Creativity and good life combined (possible only with Wappler)

HP ZBook or Apple Macbook? Upgrade time

Time to upgrade. Considering the following but would welcome feedback. HP ZBook 17. Or… Macbook Pro 2018. Budget is around the €4500 give or take a couple of hundred Euros. Sounds a lot but we a…

SSD In Macbook Pro

I have a Macbook Pro that runs terribly. I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012) with 10GB of RAM. Do you think upgrading the drive to an SSD would make a HUGE impact in speed or just marginally? W…

Great video series on MYSQL

Terrific learning resource for those new to MySQL.

Born to be Wappler ;)

Hi everybody… I m little sorry in these days I ve been not so much online on this forum because I was very busy. and because here mostly I post my problems with development hoping in the help of Wap…

Amusing Dreamweaver

I find it amusing that Dreamweaver’s major update for this quarter has about 10% of the new features that Wappler has with its weekly updates.

Funny story, well not too funny for me, but just be careful this does not happen to you

So I spent 90% of my day yesterday doing a 12 year analysis on a new customers website in various tools, mainly being Google Analytics. Sent it off to client late last night, with screenshots of 2 of…

Non Wappler related navigation question

I would love to know, regarding website navigation, when you have a large batch of navigation on a website, and requirements to use things like mega menus, how others are managing this from a design p…

Your opinion on Audio

Just wanted opinions. We were hired to do a cartoon for a customer. The idea is: These two dogs are driving in a company truck and talking. Every now and then a “Movie Trailer Voice” steps in and s…

Silly Stats question

I just looked at my user stats over all time, and it says i have spent 6 days reading the posts on this forum, really, i have used up 6 x 24hours = 144 hours just reading posts. How are these stats a…

Css and javascript confusion on my part

I am clearly too stupid to understand this article because I do not have a clue what they are on about. Is there actually any debate that css should not be used at all and replaced by javascript? …

Using competitors in videos

Concerning instructional videos, do you think there is any reason not to show doing something in a competing program? For instance, in Wappler, I can make a beautiful form very quickly, while in WP, …

Live Chat Support

I need to had a Live Chat Support to a website. Does anyone have any suggestions? What does DMXZone use for the live support chat?

Member made video tutorials

Just wondered how people felt and if there is any team policy on members publishing their own video tutorials. Wappler is still pretty reliant on older DMX Zone extension videos, some of which are id…

Types of projects to develop with Wappler | Create demand for it

If you look around most clients ask for projects developed with WP and if anything more custom they ask Angular, React, Vue. Since Wappler stands somewhere in the middle and since it is not that known…

The reason everything I do is so long winded Illustrated

Here is an illustration of 99% of the tutorials i find online and why mine take hours rather. Hope this clears up the mystery

Broken Image checker tool

Does anyone here know of a tool i could use to look for broken images on an entire website and it checks every single page. It needs to be slightly advanced too, in that my images have 5 different im…

Mark All Topics as Read?

Is there a way to mark all topics as read on these forums? I normally visit several times a day so it normally isn;t a problem. But I am currently on holidays for another week so I don’t get as much t…

Logging erors on Forms

Just needing some information. I am sure most of us at some time have come across the situation where a website you have created with a contact form seems to always be working perfectly, and you are …

Social Sign in with app connect

Has anyone added social sign in to a app connect project? I just need a nudge in the right direction to start. I want to request user details and get and save the tokens in mysql db so “remember Me” …

How many Wappler users here from South Africa?

Just out of total and utter interest, wondering how many South African users are using Wappler?

App Structure not showing the contents of <main>

Semantic HTML5 uses specific tags to indicate clearly what role is played by the content those tags contain. That explicit information helps robots/crawlers like Google and Bing to better understand …

Wappler.io trailer auto play

Hey guys can you please disable the auto play of the video in wappler.io, it scared me more than ones with the music playing loudly automatically

Create pdf from an html php etc file and dynamic data

Hi there, just an idea that came to my mind because someone asked me if possible. The ability to create a pdf directly from the database and not through page preview. I mean to create an .html , .php …

Action 'templates'

Hi. Since on fire with developing stuff with Wappler I came across an idea that might sound interesting. I find myself using the same actions in ‘Serverconnect’ while creating a ‘server action’. For e…

Wappler Team at Adobe Max?

Any chance the Wappler team will be going to Adobe Max this year? (Even if disguised as DMXZone) I’m thinking on making the trip again this year.

OK... I'll Start Since I'm not Shy

So here I am in an actual cafe sipping coffee and thinking… Now that Adobe’s Dreamweaver is history, I use PineGrow to design initial web layout templates because of its easy and extensive design cap…