A Beginner’s Guide To The Best Low Code Platform
What is the Low-Code, No-Code Movement? As a programmer/developer or an engineer it’s not long now before you will see advertising and articles about no-code or low code development technologies or micro-services available in the market. A quick web search for “low-code development tools” and you will discover hundreds of different micro-tools that can help you build a whole store web app or any other e-commerce platform by connecting and integrating dozens of different micro-tools. But which is the best low code platform? In this article, you can find mature and stable technologies offering a low-code development platform yet still allowing you, the developer, 100% control of every aspect of the finished app and access to the full source code which you can customize – if you wish – in any way you want Are all low-code development platforms the same? Very definitely not. If you have been programming in a complex way and enjoying and suddenly someone says “hey, I can create a complete e-commerce store web app without writing any lines of code” then it feels a little like they are not a ‘genuine’ software developer. Developers write code, don’t they? Lots and lots of code. But when you think of it from the general point of view, they are developers, precisely non-coding developers. They solve problems and automate the job with pre-built micro-services. Does this mean that this automated no-code solution will make developers who actually write code obsolete? Well, no. Lots of the no-code solutions out there offer what is in effect the customization of a set of standard features in a ready-made app. The apps stay within an online walled garden and, typically, the developer has no access to the source code and must pay a monthly fee to keep the app active and working. As soon as you stop paying your fee the app ceases to work. With those kind of solutions the developer never has access to any code at all or if they do it’s generally only a ‘slug’ or area in which to type in custom code. The paradigm is for you NOT to have the full source code, ever. In fact these kind of online behemoths are actually so heavily dependent on the cloud-based microservices they use to enable the app’s functionality that they couldn’t provide the developer with source code even if it was decided that this was a good idea. It’s not only part of their business model, it’s actually not even feasible. There are better solutions which give the control of the apps back to you and yet still offer a low-code/no-code way of creating software applications. The best solution is one which leverages online services and low-code solutions while retaining full control at the developer level. Why do low-code tools matter? If you want your product to be in the market as soon as possible, trying ready-baked cloud services could be a great choice rather than building everything from scratch. For instance, APILayer provides dozens of different neatly packaged services that you can easily integrate into your platform to handle Or you can look at components like CData with FireDAC. CData is a low-code data integration component set. You can quickly build applications that read and write live data from popular on-premises and cloud data sources with RAD Studio. Take […]
