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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

What is the page builder?

The page builder is a drag-and-drop editor used to create web pages. It allows you to do most of the things with it that you are allowed to do with code, just in a much simpler way because you don’t have to remember all the code for creating a page. It also allows you to integrate with the data model that you’ve created so you can display all the data on your application’s pages. Backend logic is handled by the actions part of the Betty Blocks platform. We haven’t touched this part yet, but it basically allows you to create backend logic with drag and drop as well. This will be covered in another chapter.

With most no-code tools, you can get stuck because they don’t support something that you might want to do. In the Betty Blocks platform, you can add functionality and extend the functionality provided by the platform by using code. This doesn’t mean that someone who can write code needs to create this part by adding...

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