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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 what Local Storage entities are, and saw that the way they are created and manipulated is not that different from database entities. Furthermore, we realized that we can create them as replicas of existing ones in the database, thus also allowing us to speed up the creation of synchronization mechanisms between them.

We also learned how to obtain data from these entities for our applications and that we cannot mix Local Storage entities with database entities.

Finally, we understood the fundamentals of the most common data synchronization patterns between Local Storage and the database, and that OfflineDataSync ensures the functioning of offline mobile applications in a much more cohesive and satisfying way.

In the next chapter, we're going to shift our focus a bit. Let's think more about the frontend at the UX/UI level and how we can make our applications more attractive by using style guides! Curious? So, let's turn the...