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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 finished our case management application. We added authentication to our case management application so that we can log in with a user.

We used the CRUD with slide-out template as a basis for our case management application, so we don’t have to create the whole CRUD flow ourselves, as most of it is already predefined for us. Also, we learned how to unlock and use a wrapper to get around faster in our page template.

We took our first steps into actions in this chapter. We learned how to change the permissions of an action so we can control who launches it. We also went through the basics of actions: what they can do and how we can extend them. We added some extra functionality to our actions, so we can add notes and files to our case, track the history of it, and change our status. Most of this required adding some extra functionality to our action, so you learned how to modify those.

In the next chapter, we’ll go over the pro-coder...