Hi, I’m still studying the wix code before starting to build but I’m wondering if big databases would go well with wix. Because on regular Wix I already had problems using list tools and image galleries. As the support staff told me, the whole site loads even if the users access only the first page, so, if you have many pages and features, the site takes a lot longer to load.
In the case of wix code I’m willing to make a kind of encyclopedia, with about 400.000 pages. Would it be feasible with wix code? There would be a monstrous loading time?
And what about a social network, with user generated profiles? Maybe it’s the same case above…
Thank you since now,
Daniel
First of all, nice to see such an ambitious project planned for wix code.
I hope you find the system suitable for your needs.
So let me give a few details about how a wix-code collection works.
our data APIs limit the amount of records you can load at any one time.
So on that front you are safe - the entire collection will never get loaded into memory.
Can you share a bit more information about what you’re planning to have in that collection?
- number of items
- nature of data (how many fields, of what types, etc)
- what level of filtering / sorting are you planning on using
- do you need to do text searches on your records?
- any other pertinent information
Thanks!
hahaha… I have many ambitious projects planned. I would like to have money to execute them all! I’m a designer and don’t code, so, Wix (and now Wix Code) are extending my possibilities incredibly.
The site I plan is a political encyclopedia. During an election in Brazil we can have about 400k candidates so, I expect to have a page to each one. And there I’ll have fields with their political positions (pro-choice, sustainability, external politics…) Most of the fields would be questions with 4 options, others would be simple text info or links to videos and some images. So, there could be 100 fields for each page depending on the candidate.
I would like users to be able to search for politicians with specific political positions. And would also need to search for the name of the candidate, for example.
Also, I would like to be able to compare the candidates to a specific profile and see who has more in common with that specific profile. Like the matching of a dating site.
That is what is in my mind. hehe…
Do you think this would be viable through Wix Code?
I do. I see no major blocker, but eventually you need to try it out and see.
how do you plan on adding 400K records to a collection? I am sure that not manually…
humm… that is a huge problem. I thought you had some kind of importing feature, but I’m not finding any here… Is it possible to import my database to a collection?
we are working on import/export, see the “coming soon” page in this site.
this can also be done with code - not too hard to do.