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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

This chapter was all about the data model basics. We created our first models in a data model and took a look at the properties of a model and the relationships between models.

A data model is a collection of models that represent the structure of the data that you would like to save in your application. Models contain properties that define exactly what data is stored in your models. Each property has a specific type that ensures that specific data types are being stored in the right property. For example, if you want to store a date, you can use a data property. The data property will make sure the format of the date is correct and also enables you to later do calculations with your dates in an easy way.

Then, we looked at the relationships between models. Relationships enable us to store data in an effective way so that a customer, for example, can have multiple addresses without having to create a lot of properties for different addresses. In the next chapter, we...