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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 saw that the OutSystems platform provides us with a very powerful feature to handle errors and unwanted behavior in our applications: the debugger. We learned how to use it and got to know its artifacts.

In addition, we learned about its context in reactive web applications and what the small differences in mobile are.

Finally, we realized how we can rely on existing logs in Service Center to better interpret and understand the errors and behaviors of applications in order to be more effective and faster when debugging.

The development of applications may not be, many times, a paradise, but with this knowledge, our work is much easier and going through difficult times is more comfortable.

At this point, we can already look ahead and think about how we can take all this knowledge further and try to figure out how we can extend our platform and how we can design our application architectures to make the most of what we've learned.

Well...