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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

What is governance on Betty Blocks?

The whole process of creating new applications starts with governance. The reason for this is that for every application that is created, you want to know about it. Otherwise, there will be a wild growth in applications and no monitoring of what those applications do or what they are being used for. This will lead to shadow IT and the risk of losing data since nobody knows where this data has been stored.

This is why the governance of Betty Blocks usually lies in the hands of the IT department or the innovation department. This way, they can facilitate and manage the creation of new applications and Development, Testing, Acceptance, and Production (DTAP)-streets, merge work that has been done in production, and invite new developers to applications. This way, the citizen developer and the non-coder don’t have to worry about these things, especially within larger companies, as everything is managed from one central point.

So, where does...