Calling Experts! Recently Am Building Too Many Popups, is this okay or what?

Recently, we’ve started building most of our new features using pop-ups in WeWeb, instead of separate pages. We found pop ups very useful they can be used across apps and projects in the same workspace, and users can open, minimize, or handle multiple pop-ups easily. Each pop-up instance works with its own variables, functions, and formulas, which makes things more manageable.

Our users also prefer pop-ups because they can quickly return to where they left off, instead of navigating between different pages. This has improved the user journey and experience in our apps.

I’d like to ask the WeWeb community and team: Are we on the right track by focusing on popups? Is this approach stable and recommended, especially as we continue to scale? Also, does heavy use of popups affect AI-driven features or context handling in any way? Or should we still rely on pages for some scenarios?

Would appreciate your advice and insights!

Hi yma :waving_hand:

that is a super interesting question. I’ll ask the team to see if popups would affect performance more than regular pages.

Hi @yma !

When it comes to popups vs modals, definitely pop-ups work better because of the way we have built them (they only really load when needed, as opposed to modals which were just hidden). So they have performance benefits. They are also more AI friendly and easier to use, so we recommend switching to them.

Is it better to do pop-ups vs pages? That’s up to the user. It’s always better to keep some pages separate to scope logic, but if the logic all makes sense to be in a pop-up, then it’s not a big problem.

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