External tools, components, and support
As expected, OutSystems offers an extremely attractive help and support ecosystem so that we can leverage our developments and unlock various doubts or problems: the OutSystems Community
In addition, there is a repository of components and plug-ins already built that we can download for free, and that allows us to take even more advantage of our OutSystems software factories: OutSystems Forge.
Forge and Community
Forge is a repository of pre-built components and plugins developed by OutSystems and several developers around the world. OutSystems applications are directly supported by the teams that developed them, making the process of using and optimizing them much easier. With this, we can avoid building something we need from scratch, instead reusing something someone has already done, thereby saving time and effort.
The following screenshot shows the look and feel of Forge:
Figure 1.17 – OutSystems Forge main page
The Community is a space for developers (and not just that; it extends to several roles within this huge universe) to share their doubts, help solve problems, and provide feedback and ideas, regardless of the degree of experience of each one.
The following screenshot shows the look and feel of Forums in the Community:
Figure 1.18 – OutSystems Forums (from Community) main page
Community is very useful and always growing and evolving. Therefore, we can always rely on the fact that the OutSystems world is not static but dynamic, simple, fast, and efficient, just like the product available to us.
