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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

Collaboration between Citizen Developers and Coders Using Betty Blocks

This chapter is about collaboration between different personas. It focuses on when you build your first larger project, how your team looks, and who you can use in your team for building the application. We’ll also talk about how developers can utilize a no-code platform and gain an advantage by using it. Then we’ll talk about how developers can help out citizen developers during the development of their applications, and we’ll touch on how you can extend the Betty Blocks platform by adding some code to it.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Collaboration for building applications
  • How experienced software developers can also use a no-code platform
  • How pro-coders can help citizen developers
  • Adding no-code blocks to the platform with code

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a better understanding of what the ideal team would look like...