New Feature: Use your Own Dev Tools and Work in Teams

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We are excited to announce that you can now download your Wix sites and work on them in your local environment.
This means you can use your favourite IDE to edit your site’s code while still enjoying a local version of the Wix Editor to edit your site’s look and feel. Since you can work with local versions of a site, multiple people can work on a site at the same time and you can use a version control system to manage changes.

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How does it work?

  1. Use the Corvid CLI to clone a Wix site to your local machine.

  2. Use the Local Editor and your favorite IDE to edit your site.

  3. Optionally, use a version control system to manage your changes and changes others collaborators make.

  4. Use the Local Editor to push your local site version to the Regular Editor.

  5. Publish your site as usual using the Regular Editor.

Learn More

To get started with local development, read About Local Site Projects and Team Collaboration .

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Hi Shiran,

I’m very excited to know we can work locally and finally edit style sheets. I am used to working in teams using Adobe Dreamweaver or Brackets. How is an IDE different than these products?

Could you please recommend a simple IDE to use if I do need one.

Thank you,
Sylvia

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Hi Sylvia!

Generally speaking the idea here is that we’re enabling the option of working in teams.
Up until now - the only way to edit Wix site was to log in to Wix site builder, and design or code - an action that was available only to one user at a time since there is no way to log in on parallel and edit a site simultaneously.

What we’ve developed is an option to download the site to your local computer as files, and design\code in-front of the files on your computer instead of the previous way.
The files right now represent the site in a “WIx way”, meaning you can edit JS files and edit the design using our WYSIWYG Editor. neither the CSS or the HTML files are available.

The result of such capability is that you can write code using any Code Editor that you want (instead of our Online IDE), and that several people can download the site files (each to hers\his computer) and work in parallel (while managing versions on regular professional version management tools such as GIT).

Regarding my favourite IDE - I tend to use VS Code, but it is really a personal preference, There are plenty of good IDE’s available in the market.