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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By : Reinier van Altena
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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

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)
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Part 1: Citizen Development
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Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
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Part 3: Building Your First Application
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Part 4: The Pro-Coder

Structure of a component and prefab

So before you can start building a new component, you need to understand how they work. Since the components need to be usable in the platform, it’s not only the component itself you need to create; you also need to define what component options the no-coder and the citizen developer have available to them, so they can drag and drop the component on to their canvas in the page builder and then use the component options to set it up to their liking or make changes to the style of the component. So we need to take care of that as well in the component. This is why a component consists of two different things: the component and the prefab.

Using a new component

So let’s use a component in the Betty Blocks platform itself now. We’re not going to build a very complicated component, but just a simple example to show how it works. Make sure you have the CLI installed. If you don’t have it installed yet, go back to the first...

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