Who needs it?
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Although it’s designed to be approachable and beginner-friendly, DW is intended to for professional software developers who are building custom applications for clients.
not intended for novices: to weild this effectively, you have to know what you’re doing. it’s for professionals who are making professional-grade applications. professionals with deadlines who want to deliver a reliable product
if you like the IDEA of rails or laravel, but 1) want to write javascript, 2) don’t want to be SO restricted, this is for you!
- this gives you SOME structure and guidance, but doesn’t restrict you TOO much (happy path isn’t TOO specific)
Ideal kinds of projects
Section titled “Ideal kinds of projects”Dw is most useful for those who are building internal tools, intranets, company/organization portals custom ERP software, internal tooling
bespoke web apps
useful for big enterprise apps and small custom sites alike build a cms with it, build a b2b saas with it, i don’t care
particularly suited for managing user-generated content (esp images)
stack designed to ship
- Js stack for solo devs who ship
- good stack for building turn-key saas businesses
turn-key starter kit, want to be able to build
- apps like jcdv, sdaa, otp, cb, blu, oip
- one-off quick & dirty admins like admin.reining
- turn-key intranet/dashboard
- public sites like MST & OMA (that have authentication functionality)
- ?? - eqp admin, eqp client, crag client
Dw perfect for building formware apps https://twitter.com/tonyennis/status/1725803647374635444?s=46&t=l7wRi4wE6KFhNZJNnPZNmg