Designing an app with a low-code platform involves all of the same planning and thought processes as developing it manually. But when the time comes to begin modeling, things become different, really fast! Here is what a low-code platform should help you to do.
When creating an application in a low-code platform, developers work in a graphical interface to visually model the application. They drag and drop front-end UI components, business logic, functions, workflows, processes, database tables, and schemas. The same drag-and-drop approach works, regardless of the layer of the application being built and the target platform and device.
Once the application is visually modeled at the click of a button, the low-code platform uses intelligent automation to generate the application based on the provided model. It also handles the deployment of applications to the selected environments. All application changes (to data models, logic, business processes, and screens) are taken care of by the platform, including making all the necessary updates and understanding dependencies between applications.
After deployment, a well-designed, low-code platform will also manage the application throughout its lifetime. This includes providing detailed application performance management with actionable alerts and historical performance trending.
If you have any preconceived notions about low-code, it’s time to dispel them. You might have heard that it will replace human coders, that it’s programming lite, and that it’s picture-based programming. But here’s the real scoop.
In the previous years, low-code was synonymous with mobile and web app development. Today, industry analysts like Gartner and Forrester recognize leaders in low-code as offering enterprise-class development platform that meets up to 80% of an enterprise development needs. As new functionalities and features like AI-assisted development add to low-code’s feature-set, businesses can look for that number to move closer to 100%.
Low-code development enhances skills that developers already have. Their business logic, expertise, and knowledge of their industry all work together with low-code development to make developers faster than ever before.
Although the models in the visual editor are represented as images, there are pictures involved. But those images are self-contained modules of code and logic. Rather than typing (and retyping) the same code over and over, just drag and drop. Visual-based development yields the same results, but it is more intuitive and faster, without typos.
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