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Traditional software R&D methods currently cannot meet the needs of enterprises well: high personnel costs, long R&D time, and complex operation and maintenance . At this time, the emergence of low-code tools provides a better idea for rapid software development.
For those who don't know much about it, what is low-code? what's the effect? Just recently, I have consulted a lot of information and experienced related products, so I decided to write a summary article, from the concept to the principle of the low-code platform, I hope it can help you.
1. The concept of low code
Low-code is not a novel topic in essence, nor is it a recent technological breakthrough and innovation. In fact, it is a concept that has existed for more than ten or twenty years.
Low-code platforms in a broad sense include low-code platforms and zero-code platforms, both of which belong to APaaS (Application Platform as a Service). The main difference between the two lies in the degree of dependence on code:
- Low-code platform: through automatic code generation and visual programming, only a small amount of code is needed to quickly build various applications
- Zero-code platform: Business personnel with zero development experience can quickly build various applications by dragging and dropping without writing code
It can be seen from the above that the low-code platform is oriented to developers, is highly professional, and can improve development efficiency, but requires users to have a certain technical foundation; the zero-code platform lowers the development threshold, thereby extending the user range to business personnel. You can make an analogy between PhotoShop and Meitu Xiuxiu. There is probably such a difference.
2. Advantages and limitations
Compared with the native development model, the low-code development platform can significantly improve development efficiency, especially suitable for enterprise application scenarios with fast business changes, limited budget, and tight development time ; compared with the SaaS rental model that can only solve common problems in the industry, low-code The platform has a wider scope of application, can meet individual needs, and has strong flexibility .
The low-code platform also has obvious limitations. At least for now, it is mainly used to build enterprise software, because this type of software architecture has certain laws, and the product designers of the low-code platform have found this law, but It is not suitable for software development such as entertainment and social networking . In addition, the low-code platform is still in the early stages of development, and its maturity needs to be further improved.
3. Basic functions and construction
Here borrow the JNPF rapid development platform for application development!
Based on JNPF, users can build data models, views, permissions, workflows, etc. in a visual way, and then they can run in the environment provided by the platform. A small amount of compilation and deployment is more like a fool-like application building platform. The platform encapsulates various components and business logic at a higher level. Unless there is full source code, users cannot modify the interface style, interaction method, processing logic, etc. as they wish.
Official website URL: https://www.jnpfsoft.com/?csdn
This solution does not require high technical requirements for users, but requires business abstraction and modeling capabilities. The main value is to lower the development threshold and quickly adapt to changes. JNPF is a typical product of this type of solution. The following is a screenshot of the JNPF product:
We can try to open the experience environment.
1. Business process
Business process refers to a series of activities carried out in accordance with certain rules and sequences by multiple people in order to realize a certain project. The low-code platform realizes visual process configuration, and users configure trigger conditions, processing nodes, and node participants to realize custom business processes.
The following figure is the JNPF business process configuration interface:
2. User permissions
The classic RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) model is used to manage user permissions. Simply put, users with the same permissions are added to the same role. By assigning permissions to roles, the authorization of "user-role-permission" is realized. model. Since an enterprise is an organization, it generally has the concept of a department, so a department can also be added to a role to implement the authorization model of "user-department-role-permission".
The following figure shows the JNPF user authority control method:
3. Statistical charts
Everyone is familiar with statistical charts, so I won’t go into details here. It can be compared to perspective charts in Excel. Statistical charts are defined by data sources, statistical rules, and display forms. Low-code platforms follow this approach to realize statistical charts. Visual configuration.
The following figure shows the JNPF statistical chart configuration page:
4. Use experience
As an "exquisite and beautiful" enterprise management software, it is easy to use and can effectively avoid the problems existing in some standard software: many enterprises use various software, the data cannot be interconnected, and there is a data island problem; 10 minutes to complete For a basic application, it takes 2-3 hours to find out the use process and the location of the basic functions of the entire system , and the product's function integration and complex operation balance are also more reasonable.
V. Summary
Whether it is a traditional development model, a SaaS model, or a low-code platform, what changes is the software development method, but what remains unchanged is the technology-enabled business.