I would list a few more. Curious if others have same experience as well.
- Teamwork : One of the first things that separate a professional software company from a freelancer is that the company works with teams. Wix’s answer to working in teams for us seems very weak. The local editor besides being unreliable, sometimes is not pushing full pages to the main repo and we can’t even merge those files as they are opaque data. Is it working for you guys? Are you working in teams? How do you do it?
- Editor X : I cannot comment on how good Editor X is due to the fact that it does not present interest until Wix allows upgrade of current sites to Editor X. Till then it is a no-go for me and customers. All the work invested in previous sites cannot just be started over.
- WixBlocks : The fact that Wix does not allow to place custom elements in Wix Blocks, prevents people from being able to place charts (amongst other elements) in those reusable components, which is fine for simple purposes, but when we need more advanced stuff and what usually customers pay for this is an absolute no-go
- NPM package management: A decentralized approach would be much better, let’s say once a package is accepted, the developer should be able to update the latest one for himself as there are bugs in the installed NPM packages. This makes the process very cumbersome and introduces delays into the projects
- File handling: instead of being able to grab and push files in any backend eg. AWS, Google, Azure we are limited to media manager and not even having a proper way of handling files
On the flip-side I’d like to say a huge thanks for introducing realtime web, that’s a big thumbs up and with features like this you get a lot of credibility. At the same time I’d like to see how we can manage the other topics as well that me or the previous people listed in order to be able to sell Wix to our customers.