Marketplace
How does the Mendix Marketplace speed up development?
Mendix is integrated with the Mendix Marketplace, which contains components built by both Mendix and the Mendix community to help developers build applications faster. Developers can:
- Source components from the community
- Get support to solve their use cases
- Collaborate and share knowledge with other developers in the community
In the Public Marketplace, users can find content created and supported by Mendix, components supplied by the community, and partner offerings. With over 1,500 components available (modules, widgets, connectors, services, starter apps, and solutions), everyone can contribute to the Marketplace and enrich the use cases in the catalog.
The Private Marketplace lets companies privately share company content with other platform users. It is controlled and curated by administrators, which means the content adheres to specific company guidelines. Developers can easily find the available company-approved reusable components, including starter apps.
The Marketplace is built into Mendix Studio Pro, making it easy to search for and download components directly into the app duirng build. Downloaded components appear in a separator folder for easy tracking and using Software Composition (link to Software Composition), you can see which Marketplace components are used in your live apps.
For more information, see Marketplace Overview in the Marketplace Guide.
What types of reusable components are available in the Mendix Marketplace?
The Mendix Marketplace offers a rich repository of reusable components that can significantly accelerate development productivity. These components are shared in the Mendix community as open-source components or commercial products.
Starter apps
Sample projects that have certain capabilities in place to provide a basis for developers to start building a new app. Developers can use company starter apps that already have some features configured.
For example, it may include company branding or a list of certain integrated components. Apart from company-specific templates, various community templates are available in the Marketplace.
Services (incl. connectors)
Services usually include APIs that users can interact with by configuring a connection in the app’s module. In the Marketplace, developers can find free connectors to the external services (e.g. a large variety of AWS connectors ) or find the offerings of the external services supported by our partners.
Widgets
A Mendix widget is a part of the app’s user interface (UI) that enables functionality and interaction.
Mendix provides several dozen widgets out of the box, and additional widgets are available from the Mendix Marketplace. Explore a full overview of Mendix-supported widgets.
In addition to the widgets provided by Mendix, any developer can build additional custom widgets and upload these to the Marketplace.
Modules
A module is a self-contained application component that can be reused in multiple applications.
The modules available in the Mendix Marketplace can be added to an app to provide new functionality with accompanying domain models and security options. These Marketplace modules function similarly to the modules developers create for the apps themselves.
What types of reusable components are available in the Mendix Marketplace?
The Mendix Marketplace offers a wide range of reusable components to speed up development, including:
- AI Components – Ready-to-use AI and ML-powered components that enable you to create AI-infused apps without building AI functionality from scratch. These components range from text analysis and image recognition to predictive analytics and natural language processing, maintained by both Mendix and the community.
- Starter apps – Pre-built app templates, often with company branding and preconfigured functionality.
- Modules – Self-contained units of functionality with logic, data models, and security that can be reused across apps.
- Widgets – UI components for building interactive user experiences. Mendix and the community both contribute to this collection.
- Services and connectors – Prebuilt integrations with external systems, such as AWS services, often provided by Mendix or partners.
All components can be used out of the box or customized to fit your teams’ needs. Developers can also build and share their own components.
How can we maximize the reuse of components and lower development costs and time?
Organizations can set up their own Private Marketplace to ensure their developers can access company-owned content. This means only company members can see and use it. It is possible to filter such products directly in Studio Pro.
As an example, if a company shares a library of pre-built, reusable components via Private Marketplace, this organization can ensure consistency in the user experience and functionality across different applications.
Alternatively, they can be shared as a company starter template so that every application uses the same basis containing company branding, styling, various required modules or widgets, configurations, and other features to help developers make applications consistent within a company.
Encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing among developers by fostering a community around marketplace components and app development using public/private spaces in Community. Developers can exchange ideas, ask questions, and share experiences related to using marketplace components.
Also, admins can set content groups that a certain team can collaborate on, update and work on assigned Marketplace content to improve the available resources within the company and publicly. Read more about the Private Marketplace.
How do we govern the use of marketplace components?
Curated Private Marketplace. Admins can be in control of a private marketplace and curate what content is being published internally and what is accessible to all developers.
This way, companies can encourage developers to share quality content with rich documentation, versioning information, and usage guidelines to help other colleagues kick start their development easily.
For more information, see the Private Marketplace guide.
Recommend public content. Some organizations have established governance policies and guidelines including specific rules of use of marketplace components.
To translate those policies into the platform, we enable companies to specify such criteria for selected public Marketplace components and ensure that developers know which content is recommended for usage by their Company Admin.
How can I trust the content that’s offered in the Marketplace?
Mendix provides platform-supported content that regularly undergoes security checks. All components submitted to the Public Marketplace go through an approval process to ensure they meet quality, security, and accuracy standards before they become available for download. This includes automated vulnerability scanning with QSM and validation against specific publishing requirements. For more details, see the Marketplace content approval process.
In addition, Mendix Partners can participate in a dedicated partner program and sign contracts to ensure they deliver high-quality, regularly updated, and supported content.
The Mendix Marketplace also includes components shared by the community. Each component has a product details page showing its description, documentation, release notes, and supported Mendix Studio Pro versions. Before any component is published to the Marketplace, it undergoes a scan with QSM to check for potential vulnerabilities, helping ensure the security and reliability of available components.
Users can also:
- Download and perform their own internal checks.
- View user reviews and ratings to evaluate reliability and usability.
- Label content as recommended within their company (in the Private Marketplace).
These features help developers decide which components are trustworthy and suitable for their applications.
