Low-code development is a visual application development method. Through low-code development, developers with different levels of experience can create Web and mobile applications through a graphical user interface, using drag-and-drop components and model-driven logic. The low-code development platform relieves the pressure on non-technical developers and helps them eliminate coding work. At the same time, it also provides support for professional developers to help them extract the cumbersome underlying architecture and infrastructure tasks in the application development process. Developers in the business and IT departments can collaborate on the platform to create, iterate, and release applications, and the time required is only a fraction of the traditional method. This low-code application development method can develop various types of applications for different use cases, including upgrading original applications to smart applications that support IoT.
Although low code allows you to build valuable solutions as quickly as possible, as with any tool, it needs to be used correctly to get the best results.
We have defined the following nine low-code application development principles , so that developers from enterprises to amateurs have the ability to build unique software.
Nine development principles for low-code applications:
1. Model-driven development
Through abstraction, automation and openness, ideas are transformed into applications that can provide business value.
2. Collaboration
Use a shared visual language to support the exchange of knowledge and ideas between business domain experts and developers.
3. Agility
Use agile workflow to manage the entire enterprise application development life cycle, eliminate bottlenecks, support iterative delivery, and deliver the shortest value realization time.
4. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing can achieve the convenience and speed of application deployment required by customers.
5. Openness
Anything can be integrated with a technology-agnostic enterprise application development platform, which eliminates restrictions on what can be built.
6. Multi-user development
Multiple developers should be able to work on the same application at the same time. The platform must support and synchronize their workflow.
7. Experiment and innovation
Development tools need to be affordable and flexible so that innovators everywhere can experiment, explore, and create.
8. Management and control
Sound management and control procedures and agreements are essential.
9. Community
A platform without a community cannot be counted as a platform.