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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

In this chapter, we built a prototype application and built a home page based on a template of our home page template. We modified this home page to learn about modifying text and uploading images. After that, we looked into partials, which allow you to quickly add menus to several pages without you having to modify them on each page individually. Then, we added our first form to the next page, which allows you to add data to your data model. Finally, we created a page with a DataTable component, which allows you to view the data that you’ve submitted through the form on the previous page.

In the next chapter, we’ll create a to-do application. This will teach you more about creating, updating, and deleting items from the data model in the page builder. It will also cover interactions for the first time. These interactions are very useful for making your page more interactive.