There are so many request here on this forum for new things, I fear it will prove impossible for Wix to judge the commercial validity of them all, let alone develop them. Now, in non-Wix Code environment, 3-rd parties have the possibility to wrap their app into a Wix environment (like 123Forms).
If Wix could open up Wix Code for third parties, it we be a huge plus. Then others, who already have written a stable editable grid, a scheduler, whatever, would be able to wrap a Wix layer over it and offer it at a price in the Store.
Wix Code always reminds me of Visual Basic: starting from the front end, easily hook up a database, etc. But the biggest hit for VB were the components (VBX, later OCX) that 3-rd parties could write and sell. Without it, it would have been far, far less successful.
I would gladly pay for it.
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+1 On this post. The power of open source and a third party market would be insane. It’s a no brainer in my opinion.
WIth that said, I am pretty sure this is on Wix’s radar. I actually think they are literally in the process of doing an alpha test group for something similar. I believe the current plan is to allow you to build your own mini app’s or whatever and transfer them to your other websites or clients. Whether they are going to completely open that up into a paid market is probably another question. Hopefully the feedback will be resounding and they will do this. Probably a ways out from this, but it’s in the works I think.
Hey David, long time no hear. Glad you agree. I subscribed to the Alpha-project you are referring to. Although it will be released around the 15-th of this month, what I have understood from the preliminary docs, is that it allows you to develop discrete, re-usable components written within the Wix Editor/Wix environment.
What I was referring to was the other way around: one already has a discrete component (a grid, a scheduler) written in language X (Java/C/whatever), but you wrap a Wix-layer around it, so it becomes, e.g. data-bound, pops-up with its props in the editor, etc. Keywords here are ; wrapper, not having to rewrite in another language/environment.
Think we both agree that if this were available, Wix Code would take off like a rocket.
+1 from me too. The builder or what you call might open that in some way. You could also write helpers and add as npm maybe. But if all could do Wix Code Apps and share those Wix cant provide us with the quality they have today. As long as they dont copy AppStore Review Proccesses