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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By : Reinier van Altena
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By: Reinier van Altena

Overview of this book

This practical guide on no-code development with Betty Blocks will take you through the different features, no-code functionalities, and capabilities of the Betty Blocks platform using real-world use cases. The book will equip you with the tools to develop business apps based on various data models, business processes, and more. You’ll begin with an introduction to the basic concepts of the Betty Blocks no-code platform, such as developing IT solutions on various use cases including reporting apps, data tracking apps, workflows, and business processes. After getting to grips with the basics, you’ll explore advanced concepts such as building powerful applications that impact the business straight away with no-code application development and quickly creating prototypes. The concluding chapters will help you get a solid understanding of rapid application development, building customer portals, building dynamic web apps, drag-and-drop front ends, visual modelling capabilities, and complex data models. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of building your own applications as a citizen developer using the Betty Blocks no-code platform.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Citizen Development
4
Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
10
Part 3: Building Your First Application
15
Part 4: The Pro-Coder

The ToDo Application – Actions and Interactions

In this chapter, we’ll focus on extending the functionality of the to-do application. This should reinforce the basics that you learned about in the previous chapters. The application will make use of a data model, the page builder, actions, and interactions for our logic. We won’t use any kind of authentication in this application. We’ll focus on that in our next project.

This chapter is divided into the following sections:

  • Viewing data in a dialog
  • Editing data in a dialog
  • Deleting a record

By the end of this chapter, you will have a better understanding of how to view, edit, and delete the data in your application. While building this application, you’ll also become more familiar with some other options in the page builder, by using components such as Data Tables and Dialogs. We’ll also focus a little on making our to-do list look presentable by configuring some of...