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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

Summary

In this chapter, we started on our case management application. We first learned about how to set up and use the login template. After that, we set up our data model. We covered some new properties and their options, including email address, auto increment, and phone number. We also set up some relationships between the models so we can use data from other models later in our application, such as to set notes on a case or a user on our note changes. Once our data model was set up, we created a Back Office that allowed us to make quick changes to records in our data model, or create entirely new records. The Back Office is specifically designed for admins to enable them to make these changes.

In the next chapter, we’ll finish the application by creating the pages and diving deeper into the actions for the first time.