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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

You're reading from   Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks Build powerful applications that impact business immediately with no-code app development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230993
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reinier van Altena Reinier van Altena
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Preface 1. Part 1: Citizen Development
2. Chapter 1: What Can You Build with Betty Blocks as a Citizen Developer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Collaboration between Citizen Developers and Coders Using Betty Blocks 4. Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
5. Chapter 3: Governance on Betty Blocks 6. Chapter 4: An Introduction to Data Modeling 7. Chapter 5: The Page Builder 8. Chapter 6: Creating a New Application from a Template 9. Chapter 7: Prototyping an Application 10. Part 3: Building Your First Application
11. Chapter 8: The To-Do Application 12. Chapter 9: The ToDo Application – Actions and Interactions 13. Chapter 10: Case Management Application 14. Chapter 11: Case Management – Pages and Actions 15. Part 4: The Pro-Coder
16. Chapter 12: Pro-Coder Features 17. Chapter 13: The Back Office 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding no-code blocks to the platform with code

Betty Blocks is a no-code platform, but does this mean you can’t add any code to it? No, you can add code to Betty Blocks. So, what can you do with code in Betty Blocks?

There are three places where you can add code to Betty Blocks:

  • Actions: Here, you can use code to extend the logical part of Betty Blocks. For example, there could be a situation where you want the logic of Betty Blocks to do something that it normally can’t do, or you want it to work slightly differently. You can create new code or edit existing code to make changes to the actions. Then, a no-coder can use them in a no-code way on the platform.
  • Page builder: Here, you can add new components or modify existing ones. For example, if you want to add a new component to display a calendar, you can create it in code and add it to the platform so that a no-coder can use it in a drag-and-drop way.
  • Endpoints: Here, you can add code directly to...
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