I think we are a year or more out before Apps go away completely. They will most likely disable the ability to create new apps sometime this year, but existing apps will still function normally. Glide will be discussing the transition process with experts over the next several months. I think there is a likely chance that glide will build a process to handle the conversion automatically. It’s in their best interest to make the process as smooth as possible. Not only from a customer perspective, but to simplify the maintenance of their back end by having a a single unified product. Before that happens, they will continue to bring over features from apps into pages, so hopefully when the time comes, a conversion will have minimal impact with maybe some minor cleanup required by us at most.
Once some additional enhancements are made to pages, I may attempt to rebuild my app myself to get a head start. Haven’t decided or made any immediate plans yet. For the most part, I’m not overly concerned, since I think we have at least a year before we get to that point. I think in a year, Pages will be light years ahead of where it’s at now and where Apps are now. Sounds like they have some major enhancements in store.
For new projects, I’d say build in Pages if you can. For existing projects, I would hold off on rebuilding as a Page until we learn more from Glide, unless you are feeling ambitious.
I think some people are getting overly excited about something that is a year out and only looking at pages as they are now. Pages have changed a lot in the past few months, and I can only imagine what they will be in a year. I think back to when I started using glide in early 2019. Half the components we have now. A fraction of the functionality, No data editor, or computed columns. Absolutely everything had to be done in a google sheet. So much has changed since those days
Glide has changed immensely in the past few years. Last year they focused on the new computation model on the back end, and cleaning that up, which leads the way to this year, where they can now focus on forward facing enhancements and functionality.
I think it will be an exciting year of new stuff coming out fast and furious.