# Transitioning from Bubble to WeWeb tips and tutorials **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips and Hacks\ **Created:** [December 16, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522 "2025-12-16T17:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kmeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kmeans](https://community.weweb.io/u/kmeans)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/1 "2025-12-16T17:29:42Z")
Very new to WeWeb. I would say im pretty above average developing with Bubble but the application im developing uses a lot of different data. This data is brought in through an external API and then I manipulate alot of it to get more in depth info. A couple of months ago I switched to using Xano to bring in the data and manipulate it and then I just update it in Bubble using recursive backend workflows to reduce the workload usage when bringing it in and manipulating it but it is still using a ton of WF units just to update the info so i am looking at possibly switching to WeWeb instead now. Im looking for any tips/tutorials specific to switching over from Bubble. Even simple stuff seems pretty different. For instance, I have a list of items brought in from my xano. Inside of that list being displayed though, i need to grab an image from another data type that is brought in. The parent list will contain the ID i need for the item in the separate data list I am trying to pull from that contains the image. I went ahead and set the one container to be the item from the list that contains the image and it appears to show that specific item. then when i try to set the image to that items image, it says the parent item is null but still lets me pull data from the parent list though. ---
**Author:** ![sam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/sam1/32/6724_2.png) [@sam1](https://community.weweb.io/u/sam1)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/2 "2025-12-16T20:26:33Z")
What your doing sounds correct can you share an image of how you are attempting to bind it? ---
**Author:** ![kmeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kmeans](https://community.weweb.io/u/kmeans)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/3 "2025-12-16T23:59:32Z")
The parent container for this contains an NFL game. I want this container to use the away teams data which is a different collection so i set it to teams.data and used the filter which you can see below in the second image. It appears to have the correct team when looking at the “current value” section. ![Screenshot 2025-12-16 at 6.50.18 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/2/2f0854089433148049124a414324e1ce1fe91f6f.png) Then we clicking on the image that I would like to show the logo that is directly inside of the container above, it shows the “parent” as null. ive tried a number of different formulas but i dont really know if im doing them correctly yet and none of them seemed to work. ---
**Author:** ![kmeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kmeans](https://community.weweb.io/u/kmeans)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/4 "2025-12-17T00:00:53Z")
![Screenshot 2025-12-16 at 7.00.45 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/f/fd147ebef0d8381234beaa29ac6bfd63f5b50645.png) ---
**Author:** ![kmeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kmeans](https://community.weweb.io/u/kmeans)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/5 "2025-12-17T00:02:01Z")
![Screenshot 2025-12-16 at 7.01.35 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/0/06a588135a2b281e8010c1fc444d078dab092387.png) Sorry i typed it all out and then realized it wouldnt let me post multiple images in the same reply ---
**Author:** ![sam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/sam1/32/6724_2.png) [@sam1](https://community.weweb.io/u/sam1)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/6 "2025-12-17T00:19:13Z")
instead of using the filter button I would do a lookup formula. Lookup(item.data.awayteamid,teams.data,’id’)?.logo ---
**Author:** ![kmeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kmeans](https://community.weweb.io/u/kmeans)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/7 "2025-12-17T13:27:54Z")
It took me a minute to figure this out but thanks! A separate question I have is, do you think its more efficient to have many collections filtered in different ways on the backend than just a couple of collections and using many filters on the front end? Is there any negative towards having many different collections? ---
**Author:** ![Agustin\_Carozo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/agustin_carozo/32/13231_2.png) [@Agustin\_Carozo](https://community.weweb.io/u/Agustin_Carozo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/transitioning-from-bubble-to-weweb-tips-and-tutorials/20522/8 "2025-12-17T18:36:22Z")
Hi Kmeans, welcome to the community 👋 Love that you’re starting your WeWeb journey with a real project already in motion. I’d love to understand more specifically: - Which parts of Bubble you’re most used to (repeating groups, database, workflows, etc.). - Where in WeWeb things feel the most “different” or confusing so far (data binding, collections, workflows, components, etc.). That will help us point you to the most relevant “coming from Bubble” tutorials and patterns, and maybe even create new resources around your use case. I’ll also send you a DM so we can schedule a quick call about this. Talk to you soon!