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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

User management

As mentioned before, there are two different types of users: application users and organization users. Eventually, all application users will end up as organization users as well because an application is always part of an organization. We’ve already talked about organization users, so let’s dive deeper into application users now. In the next screenshot, you can see an example of a user who has been added to an application:

Figure 3.15 – User overview

Figure 3.15 – User overview

An application user comes in two different types: an admin or a member. The admin is essentially a builder of the application. This user has full access to all the elements of Betty Blocks that allow them to build and make changes to an application, such as the page builder, the models, the actions, and the web services. This user also has access to the data API, which means that you can access the data in your application from the frontend of your application while it...