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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

Creating a New Application from a Template

In this chapter, we are going to create a new application using a template. We will show you what a template looks like and how it works in this chapter. After we’ve created this application, we’ll take you through the development environment and show you the basics of the page builder, actions, and data model. After that, we will go through the actual application that you’ve created to see how it actually works based on everything you’ve seen in the development sandbox.

We’ll cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Creating an application from a template
  • Entering the development environment
  • Launching the application

By the end of this chapter, you will know how to create an application from a template, which will allow you to quickly set up an application with a lot of functionality already in place. We’ll take a tour of the development environment and show you some...