About the Club
The MODX Club appeared on March 17, 2013 (at least this is the date of the first introductory word) ) and initially aimed to be useful to both specialists and end clients. And in the first years it was quite successful. But later the MODX market began to decline significantly, and MODX itself as a site engine almost stopped developing. Personally, I became very very bored and I moved to the broader development market - javascript. Here is a short note about this. In 2019, MODX was officially closed.
Then the site moved to prisma-cms.com (the domain is already lost), and later to freecode.academy, , where all the old content is still located. That is, all publications, all comments since the launch of the MODX Club have not been lost anywhere and are still there. Freecode.Academy was supposed to be a platform where beginning specialists could study not only MODX, but also web technologies in general, including HTML, CSS, javascript. But today there is practically no activity. I associate this with a change in modern approaches to development in general - stackoverflow has replaced many. And now LLM is also gaining momentum and it has fundamentally rewritten all the rules of the game. For this reason, freecode.academy will remain simply as an archive of old notes. Otherwise, you can put a cross on it.
MODX Club Restart
At the moment, the Club has been restarted in a new capacity and consisting of only one person - me. My name is Nikolai Lanets, previously well known on the MODX market under the nickname Fi1osof, and although in 2019 I officially quit MODX, I still did not quit programming for a day, and continued to develop in many directions, including JavaScript, TypeScript, React, GraphQL. And since the beginning of 2025, I have been very closely engaged in AI technologies, including writing and developing my own engine haih-agent. Essentially, this is the basis for creating individual sites on the most modern technologies, with a unique AI agent on board. In fact, I am now doing both my personal sites and client sites on it.
Club Goals
The updated Club does not aim to teach anyone. The only reasonable goal today is to ensure a painless migration of old sites from MODX to more modern technologies. Despite the fact that the MODX community still exists in some way, it is held together by the fact that end clients do not yet all understand that under the updated beautiful wrapper of MODX is the same old stuffing. Technically, MODX practically does not develop. To verify this, it is enough to go to the official MODX Revolution repository and look at the statistics. The average picture is approximately this: about 5 merge requests and a couple of closed tickets per month.
Some additions are certainly written a little for MODX, but they are all still created on top of old rails, so nothing particularly modern and effective can result there. You cannot put a new engine on an old cart and immediately successfully go out to the race track. At the same time, many experienced MODX specialists have already left this market, and new specialists, if they appear, many lack the experience to create something new. At best, they know how to attach ready-made components. I believe that this is all destructive. That is, instead of mastering new technologies and offering clients a new level of services, they continue to mislead clients that nothing else is needed except MODX and everything can be done on it.
Most likely I will not be able to convince those who are still thinking only of making a site for themselves on MODX, but I can help those who have already done it and are disappointed.If you have a working MODX site and you want to get a more modern version of it, how this can be done.
Example of work
Compare for yourself: the site before and after migration from MODX.
