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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Summary

In this chapter, we understood that the OutSystems platform provides a huge number of accelerators, such as pre-designed patterns and templates, automatic screen creation features such as scaffolding, and the ability to easily and quickly customize our UX styles and functionality through the CSS and JavaScript editors.

We also saw that all automatic developments respect the best performance and security rules, ensuring an excellent UX/UI, something that is one of the most important metrics nowadays for the end user.

Even without mastering native frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), we were able to create fantastic applications that meet the expectations of our customers.

In the next chapter, we will see that, for developing mobile applications, things are not that different. By the way, one of the great quick wins is that the development paradigm is the same as the reactive web! The platform is so well thought out that, in order to focus on the difference...