After I open Wix IDE if I switch to another tab (doesn’t matter which tab) or sometimes even if I don’t switch to another tab Wix IDE closes itself immediately. And I see this screen:
I tried to clear cache and cookies.
I use Chrome and now testing if same error happens on Edge too.
Hi there loeiks,
May I ask if you managed to find a solution to this problem? It has happened to be quite a number of times but I thought it was a temporary glitch until it started to happen very frequently recently…
Thanks!
To be honest and clear I didn’t use Wix IDE a lot I just used for quicky testing etc. I was using it for a site I had but right now I don’t use it at all.
I use VSCode instead which is by far better, Wix IDE already a fork of VSCode. I suggest you downloading and using a local IDE instead of Wix IDE.
This will probably keep happening and I don’t think Wix will fix it soon because it’s not a very important thing to fix since it won’t bring any direct value to business/Wix.
Instead of waiting for a fix, using VSCode will improve your UX a lot. No lags no issues it already has everything you need except Wix AI thing (but you can install Wix MCP and use Copilot which will give you probably same or better results depending on the model and prompts).
Keep in mind that you will need to setup Git and GitHub integration to work with local IDEs since they won’t be directly connected to Wix site and instead you will need to use Wix CLI for certain things.
I will leave related links here:
Or you can just keep using Wix IDE as it is 
Hey loeiks,
Thanks so much for this and appreciate the links!
Will probably sit up the linkage soon given the instability of the Wix IDE. Thankfully, the code is saved live, and not erased with every refresh!
Cheers!
Alexander
Yes it’s saved but it’s a very bad experience to reload again and again but at least it’s saved if you are very new to coding (or low code) it might be confusing to setup VSCode and use local IDEs but if you spend some time and try to get used to it it will worth.
I also suggest you to setup Wix MCP server for AI tools within VSCode, it can be a bit confusing too if you can’t manage to handle it I can write a short step by step guide for you here. This will increase the quality of responses of AIs related with Wix based coding. Wix MCP basically tells AI where to find docs so when you ask something to a LLM model (ChatGPT, Gemini, Calude etc.) they will go and read the docs and write code based on the docs. They sometimes still fail to write the correct code but in general it helps a lot to these models to respond with accurate things.
