Webiny
p/webiny
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Sven Al Hamad
Webiny — Build modern web apps, stay sane and deliver on time. 🚀
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Webiny (https://www.webiny.com/) is all you’ll need as a web developer to build an application.

From an API layer, to frontend components, backend framework and admin template – even ready-made apps are included – and it’s all fully documented, free and open-source.

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Perry Chan

The Webiny team are extremely dedicated, and talented individuals comprising some of the web's best talents. Webiny is the amazing culmination of their combined efforts and we're all fortunate to be able to use it.

Pros:

We've been lucky enough to have been using earlier versions of Webiny since 2014 and it's completely streamlined our development. Fantastic!

Cons:

Hard to say, but as a PM, the pros completely outweigh any cons.

Sven Al Hamad
Hi Product Hunters, Since I started a web development agency, almost 7 years ago, my team and I always felt that the current way of building websites wasn't efficient. We tried several solutions. Building tailored made solutions using open source frameworks, but that just didn't scale in terms of man hours required. We then gave Wordpress a shot. Wordpress is all good and nice, as long as you are building a simple blog or a marketing website. The moment you need to do a complex backend module, you start spending more effort fighting it's internals, than actually coding the module it self. We knew we could do better. A few years later, having several satisfied clients running their businesses using our platform, we would like to share it with you. Few features: + Install with a single command + Set of 70+ React JS components + PHP 7 powered API with Mongo database + Comes with ready-made apps + Open source and fully documented Sum total: spend less time coding and more time with your family and friends We'd love to get some feedback and more than happy to answer any questions.
Damir Bulic

I like it. Just wish it was not PHP-based :)

Pros:

Addresses common pain points, API-first, rapid development

Cons:

A brand new tech, it's always a question if it will gain traction

Cristian Dan

I just think it’s awesome that a team of devs put so much work into an open source tool that would greatly improve the launch of a new product!

Pros:

It makes devs life WAY easier. That‘s probably the only tool you‘d need to launch a new web app. And it’s open source!

Cons:

Long term support?

Sven Al Hamad
Thank you for your feedback Dan - the question you raised around long term support is an important one and it is one that most people fear when it comes to open source products. Webiny is and will always be at it's core free and open source, but we do plan to provide additional services, support, paid apps as added value on top of the free stack. This will come next year and will fund the growth of the team and ensure that it's a long living project with both support from the core team but as well as the community.
Justin Anyanwu

I was hoping this was something similar to bubble.is.

Pros:

I think is similar to bubble

Cons:

Not as abstract as bubble

Nela Dunato

Excited that it's finally going live!

Pros:

Fast, reliable, bunch of functionality out of the box, and of course – a super-dedicated & responsive team of smart developers behind it.

Cons:

Probably a tough sell to clients who don't want to migrate from WordPress

Andrija Colak

Good luck to everyone!!!

Pros:

Team behind this project is out of this world that put years of work into this product with goal to make things easier for others. Great!

Cons:

its a new product on the market you could run into some minor bugs

Leonardo Fangueiro

i wanna try this alot!

Pros:

To mutch Pros to talk about..

Cons:

Lets find out :)

Sven Al Hamad
Like your comment :) Just give me a ping if you have any questions!
Kurt Angus

I particularly like the promise of reduced man hours and it's extensive librarie, that makes this possible. Most importantly it's free and open source.

Looking forward to see how this develops over time.

Pros:

I like the fact that the makers understand the developers pain points and have come up with what seems to be a viable solution.

Cons:

I need more time to analyse the solution in details

Vinothkumar Arputharaj
Thanks a lot Webiny team for open sourcing such an amazing product. I'm gonna spend a lot of time exploring all development possibilities.
Dmitry Kaigorodov
Who are your target customers? Any specific industry. For me it looks like react-based Aurelia or yui. Am I correct?
Sven Al Hamad
Hi @kuolldev, our target customers are primarily web developers / web agencies. We want to help them by providing them a much better tool for building web applications, be that for their clients or some other projects they are working on. As for the industry, any developer/team that works with Javascript / PHP would find himself at home with Webiny. We do use ReactJs as a foundation for all the UI and frontend components. So if you are already familiar with React this should be pretty straightforward journey.
joão Alexandre
Looks interesting, I'll give it a try in my next project.
Sven Al Hamad
@jalmeida oh, we would love that! If you have any questions of any feedback you would like to share, feel free to reach out.