Hi everyone,
for my personal growth I want to invest time in learning how to make widgets inside Mendix,
I constantly run into the issue having new widget ideas or functional requirements.
But each time I decide to dive into it just feels like I run into the same issue. A lack of understanding.
The client documentation often includes one variation which often is the bare minimum code example to display where & how the functionality is used.
But often excludes / avoids complex functionality.
Just some simple use-case scenarios would be lovely additions to this documentation.
The fact that it is also extending dojo/dijit in many cases does my head in when I'm trying to look for what certain functions do.
So I've tried looking at other widget's source code and trying to learn from those.
But pretty much all widget packages and code written by others are uncommented.
Now I'm sure that if i spend enough hours into reading / studying their code I will eventually learn how it works or what it does.
But in general it takes a lot of time/energy as a majority of the widgets is just very poorly written, where function names aren't descriptive of what they actually do etc, poor choice of variable names. And often do I come to realisation that these widgets don't do what I need them to do, so then I'm back to the documentation trying to figure out what elements to put together.
Now what I'm looking for is one or multiple people that would be willing to fulfill a tutoring / teaching role. And maybe others that would be interested in getting such guidance / tips.
I know there used to be a classroom session at Mendix for widget building, but I don't think that exists anymore.
So yeah anyone who would be willing to help me and possibily others out would be greatly appreciated.