Overview

Intuitive UI

Mendix Studio Pro is a visual model-driven IDE with customizable themes, drag-and-drop functionality, reusable components, and full-stack capabilities.

• Build multi-channel web and mobile applications from a single model.
• Create page elements like structure, layout, graphics, buttons, and client-side logic by dragging and dropping ready-to-use components.
• Identify the functions you need fast with consistent icons and labels.
• Choose light or dark mode for the best readability.
• Use front-end extensions for custom inputs, visualizations, logic, and more.
• Take advantage of the UI Recommender to design and modify app pages faster and more intuitively.

Scalable application logic

In the Mendix IDE, application logic is created in the form of visual microflows. This makes it easy to add complex logic to applications without writing code.

• Construct complex server-side logic using our visual editor to express function or method-like instructions.
• Automate mundane development tasks with pre-built logic for creating and updating objects, showing pages, and connecting to external systems.
• Utilize out-of-the-box integrations or add your own custom Java logic directly to the IDE.

Smart workflow automation

Design and process core application workflows in the highest level of detail with Mendix Studio Pro’s visual workflow editor.

• Automate manual processes like approvals, reviews, check-ins, submittals, escalations, or requests.
• Take full control over complex logic structures by adding paths and actions to a flow chart.

AI-assisted development

Our low-code IDE features Maia, our generative AI-powered assistant that helps you model and deliver high-quality applications faster and more consistently.

• Maia Best Practices Recommender: Checks application models for Mendix best practices, detects anti-patterns, and guides developers step-by-step to resolve issues.
• Maia Logic Recommender: Uses deep learning to provide real-time, context-driven recommendations. It also assists with modeling and the creation of application logic.
• Maia Workflow Recommender: Suggests applicable microflows or valid activities the workflow can jump to.
• Maia Domain Model Generator: Generates the skeleton for a new data model and helps extend an existing model based on text input. Example: “I need a domain model for a time-tracking application.”
• Translation Generator: Batch translates all app text, including system text, into another language.
• Maia Learn: Guides new developers through the key Mendix app development concepts with theory, how-to videos, and chat options.

Seamless data integration

Easily integrate Mendix Studio Pro with third-party tools and services using our powerful Platform APIs and connectors. You can also develop services to expose your Mendix data to other platforms with our built-in microservices architecture.

• Define your data needs by using the domain model to describe the information in your application in an abstract way.
• Integrate with third-party systems and services using protocols such as REST, SQL, OData, SOAP, and more.
• Connect with container technologies like Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Integrate with quality assurance services like Mendix Application Test Suite (ATS), Mendix Quality and Security Management, and Selenium.
• Import and export data from XML and JSON or integrate machine learning (ML) models into your application.

Version control and multi-user development

Mendix Studio Pro combines multi-user development across varying skill levels. The Mendix Team Server (based on Git) allows multiple developers to work on the same project simultaneously.

• Build and update applications, commit changes, and use version control to automatically reconcile developers’ work into a single revision.
• Retrieve new updates from the Mendix Team Server and control which changes and merge conflicts are accepted.
• Manage app repository growth with a convenient and efficient storage format for easy commits and development lines.

Built-in Mendix Marketplace

The Mendix Marketplace is fully integrated into the Mendix Studio Pro IDE. Here you’ll find reusable application components created by Mendix, our partners, and the Mendix community.

• Build custom applications with pre-built components like connectors, widgets, modules, templates, application services, and more.
• Find complete sample applications that can be used immediately.
• Upload components you’ve built and share with the Mendix Community.