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48 Stories To Learn About Coding With Velo

by Learn RepoApril 16th, 2023

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Learn everything you need to know about Coding With Velo via these 48 free HackerNoon stories.

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Let's learn about Coding With Velo via these 48 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Dealing with Velo Web Modules: Our Advanced Tips for Improved Function Import

Web modules are exclusive to Velo and enable you to write functions that run server-side in the backend, and easily call them in your client-side code.

2. The Velo Writing Contest: Round 2 Winners

Here we are again with the announcement of the Velo Writing Contest Winners! HackerNoon has partnered with Wix to celebrate our programmers, who are also great writers.

3. The Velo Writing Contest: Final Announcement

Heyo Coders! As promised, we are here with the Final announcement of the Velo Writing Contest Winners.

4. Velo How-To: Assigning Permissions For Web Modules

Note: You should have already learned about Web Modules before reading this article.

5. How To Format Dates Correctly

This article explains how you can format dates on your site using Velo.

6. How to Use Velo Rendering API for Improved Performance of Website Pages: Tips to Take into Account

When a visitor browses to one of your site's pages, that page needs to be set up before it is displayed. Setting up a page includes adding and positioning all of its elements as well as running code that might retrieve the page's data or perform other setup operations. This process is known as rendering.

7. Velo How-To: On SEO For Router Pages

SEO Settings for router pages vary slightly from the settings for regular pages. Learn about SEO for Wix pages here.

8. Velo by Wix: Anatomy of URLs On Paid And Free Platforms

In many situations you might refer to the URLs of your site's pages. A page's URL is made up of several parts that are detailed below. Your site's URL looks different depending on whether you have a premium site or a free site.

9. How To Configure Routers For Your Website with wix-router

Using Velo you can create routers that allow you to take complete control when handling incoming requests to your site. To do so, you set up a router to receive all incoming requests with a specified prefix and define the logic of what to do when a request with that prefix is received. You decide what actions to perform, what response to return, where to route the request, and what data to pass to the page.

10. Velo Properties Panel In-Depth: Descriptions of the Most Essential 5 Properties

See what the Properties and Events panel looks like here

11. Velo How-To: Text Formatting

You can connect data to elements using Wix Data and datasets or Velo and code. You can learn about how data is formatted when it is connected using datasets, here.

12. How To Use Velo and Wix Fetch To Extend Your Website Functionality

Velo supports working in JavaScript and some special features, including:

13. Integrating Maps And Geo-Queries in Your Wix Website Using Velo

Presentation of a proof of concept regarding the implementation of geo-query on Velo by Wix. This PoC allows developers to request all documents nearby

14. How To Clone A Famous Job Board Website using Velo by Wix

Although you won't build a Clubhouse for Gen Z (no offense), Wix is still great for constructing the go-to website we use every day. Any guesses? Job boards. T

15. Wix Content Collection Fields: Helpful Tips on How to Use Them Properly

Your content collections store your site's content. The collections organize your content with items (rows) and fields (columns). The fields usually describe the items. For example, if one item is a car, a field may list its color.

16. Building A Flutter Native App with Wix Velo for Local Covid Hospital and Oxygen Tracking

How to make flutter native app in velo by wix

17. Step-by-Step Guide on How to Build a Web Application with Velo

Velo by Wix is an innovative product that lets you build robust web applications with zero setup. Work in Wix's visual builder, add custom functionality and interactions using Velo APIs, and enjoy serverless coding in both the front-end and backend. With Velo, your web app can be up and running in a fraction of the time it would normally take you.To introduce you to Velo, we created our own version of a "Hello, World!" example: a simple currency converter site that uses the wix-fetch API to connect to a third-party service. Site visitors choose source and target currencies from dropdowns and enter an amount to convert. The results are displayed in a text box.

18. Building a Website to View Classmates: My Journey with Wix and Velo

To help my classmates stay organized with school during the pandemic, I built a website where my peers can view who share classes with them. This is my journey.

19. Building Email Forms With Velo by Wix

There are many instances when you want to send an email each time a form is submitted. In this article, we demonstrate how to build two types of forms that send an email. We start by setting up a form that sends an email to a specific address as an alert each time the form is submitted successfully. Then we modify our code so that an email confirmation is sent to the user who filled out the form after it is submitted successfully.

20. Velo API Introduction: The Basic Things You Should Know About the Velo

Velo's APIs empower you to take full control of your site’s functionality. Use the APIs to interact with site elements, your site’s database content & Wix Apps

21. How To Work with External Database

When you enable Velo you also automatically get Wix Data, which lets you work with our built-in databases on your site. You may also want to work with data that you maintain in an external database. Velo lets you connect your site to an external database and then work with that database collection in your site just as you would with our built-in collections.

22. Wix-Animation Module Implementation: Follow These Tips to Set It Up

The wix-animations module contains functionality for working withanimations. Learn more.

23. Velo Keyboard Shortcuts: Main IDE and File Search Key Combinations

IDE and File Search Key Combinations

24. Wix Velo Introduction: Basic Tips for Beginners

An Overview On Wix Velo

25. How to Use Wix App Collections and Code to Customize Your Website

This article explains what Wix app collections are and how you can work with them.

26. Wix App Collections, Permissions, and Code: Velo Feature Guide for Developers

This article explains what Wix app collections are and how you can work with them.

27. Velo How-To: Setting Up The File Upload Field With Custom Form Handler

File Upload Scenario

28. How To Run Recurring Jobs using Velo by Wix

The Job Scheduler allows you to schedule code to run at specified intervals. You schedule code to run by creating a job.

29. How To Use Velo Mixins

A mixin is a class that exists solely to provide properties and functions to other classes. Using mixins, you can simulate inheritance between classes.

30. How To Run Triggered Sends with Velo by Wix

Triggered Emails allow you to create a template for emails that you can send to a newly created contact, using code. Before sending the email, your code can inject information into the template to personalize it with any data that is available in your page code. In this article, we demonstrate how to use the code snippet generated by Triggered Emails to send an email to the newly created contact on the submission of a form.

31. Creating a Payment Flow using Velo Pay API

Using the Velo Pay API you can collect payments from your site's visitors outside the context of a Wix App like Wix Stores. The API allows you to collect a payment when triggered by any user interaction on any page.

32. A Custom Chart by Using the HTML Component Plainly Explained

This example demonstrates how to use the HTML component to embed a chart on a page. This is just one of the many things you can embed in your site using the HTM

33. Velo How-To: Security Checklist

In general, your site is secure without you having to do anything. Wix takes care of that for you. However, there are certain situations where you have to take some precautions so that you don't expose your sensitive data to your site's visitors.

34. The wix-fetch Module as the Way to Take Your Website to the Next Level

An implementation of the standard Javascript Fetch API which can be used in public and backend code for fetching resources from 3rd party servicesusing HTTPS. Learn more.

35. How To Use Velo API To Work with Forms

You can work with Forms using Velo APIs in 2 different ways: use the Wix Forms app and its APIs or create your own custom form

36. How To Setup Event Tracking with Velo by Wix

Adding tracking code to your site allows you to monitor how users interact with your site. Collecting tracking data gives you insight into their online behavior and helps you to optimize your online marketing strategies.

37. 5 Hot Velo Practices to Test and Debug Your Website Code

Wix provides several tools for testing and debugging the code in your site. You can start by testing your site in Preview mode before publishing. If you see errors or your site is not running as expected, there are 4 tools you can use to debug the code in your site:

38. Velo How-To: On Performance Optimization And Data

Using data from database collections or from a 3rd-party source can be a powerful tool to enhance your site's functionality. However, sending a lot of data to the browser from the server can be a time-consuming operation and negatively affect your site's loading time. Therefore, you want to minimize the amount of data that is sent from the server to the browser. This article lists a number of approaches you can use, whether you're using a dataset or the Data API, to improve your site's performance.

39. Creating and Debugging Website Routers

Creating a router allows you to take complete control when handling certain incoming requests to your site.

40. Properties and Events Velo Panel Puzzled Out: Find Answers to Your Questions

The Properties and Events panel lets you work with the elements on your site with Velo. You can use Velo with all the elements on your site.

41. Velo How-To: API Aggregations

Using the aggregation functionality of the Data API you can perform certain calculations on your collection data, as whole or on groups of items that you define, to retrieve meaningful summaries. You can also add filtering and sorting to your aggregations to retrieve exactly what you need.

42. Step-by-Step Guide on How to Work with the Velo Code Panel

You edit the code for your site in the code panel, which is displayed at the bottom of the Editor.

43. Must-Have Velo Glossary for Coders: 60+ Essential Terms Precisely Explained

In Velo, the schema defines which fields are in each of your collections and their type.

44. How To Use the Paid Plans API for Pricing Plan Ordering

This article describes how you can use the Velo Paid Plans API to customize how you offer pricing plans to your site's visitors. We're going to explain how we set up a sample site and the code we added to make it work.

45. How to Build Your Own Booking Platform with Velo

In this article I develop a way to bypass wixBookings and build my own custom bookings platform.

46. How to Use The Realtime Messaging API in Velo

The Realtime API is used to send messages in realtime over channels that your site visitors are subscribed to. In this tutorial, we demonstrate the usage of the Realtime API by sending breaking news alerts to visitors on a news site. We allow visitors who are members of our site to decide what types of news alerts they receive. Alerts are sent using an admin page where the admin can choose what type of alert to send.

47. How To Avoid SEO Pitfalls

Building a Wix site with Velo? Here are some tips for improving your site's visibility in search engines and avoiding SEO pitfalls when coding with Velo.