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Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix

By : Bryan Kenneweg, Imran Kasam, Micah McMullen
Book Image

Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix

By: Bryan Kenneweg, Imran Kasam, Micah McMullen

Overview of this book

Low-code is a visual approach to application development. It enables developers of varying experience levels to create web and mobile apps using drag-and-drop components and model-driven logic through a graphic user interface. Mendix is among the fastest-growing platforms that enable low-code enthusiasts to put their software ideas into practice without having to write much code, and Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix will help you get up and running with the process using examples and practice projects. The book starts with an introduction to Mendix, along with the reasons for using this platform and its tools for creating your first app. As you progress, you’ll explore Mendix Studio Pro, the visual environment that will help you learn Mendix app creation. Once you have your working app ready, you’ll understand how to enhance it with custom business logic and rules. Next, you’ll find out how to defend your app against bad data, troubleshoot and debug it, and finally, connect it with real-world business platforms. You’ll build practical skills as the book is filled with examples, real-world scenarios, and explanations of the tools needed to help you build low-code apps successfully. By the end of this book, you’ll have understood the concept of low-code development, learned how to use Mendix effectively, and developed a working app.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
6
Section 2: Building Your First App
11
Section 3: Leveling Up Your App

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a few topics specifically geared toward connecting to the outside world. Consuming data or posting data into other application is increasingly common in this integrated, connected world in which we live. Although we didn't cover every scenario and every method to connect to another application, we hopefully gave you some helpful tips to get started. Integration is one of those areas where you can spend quite a long time building knowledge and skills over years of practice and research. And what's really interesting about this space is that it is ever evolving, ever changing and adapting to the world.

The biggest concept we covered in this chapter was that of consuming data from a third-party service. Of course, The Movie Database was just one example of thousands of websites and systems that have REST service capabilities. This example made the most sense because we were building a video rental application. Feel free to add to the sample...