With the development of the Internet in China, online R&D efficiency and business application software are not behind the pace of progress of the times, and the Chinese software industry has never stopped continuous innovation.
In 2022, business application development is being simplified, and R&D efficiency is also improving. Among them, the development of software (platforms) such as collaborative promotion of software, integrated management of R&D, and business templates has to be mentioned. What are they?
From the perspective of front-end business application development, we have witnessed the birth of many software tools or platforms to solve front-end development efficiency:
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Solve the business efficiency problem of fast online marketing activities – HTML5 marketing template tools, such as Yiqixiu
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Solve the conversion efficiency of the front-end page from the design draft to the front-end CSS code level, such as Code.FUN
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Solve the problem of component reuse in the process of applet page development – WeChat applet components, Tuniao UI components
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Solve the development problems of front-end complex charts, such as: uCharts plug-in
In addition, the development of front-end business applications is relatively low-level, that is, low-code or zero-code platforms developed everywhere, such as: Tencent Cloud Micro Build, Baidu Ai Speed Build, etc. The above tools (platforms) are further reducing the application development threshold for developers and accelerating the R&D-launch cycle of business applications.
Looking at the backend, with the arrangement of backend services such as mongoDB and the emergence of container technology, many visual server-side management tools have emerged as needed. The emergence of these tool platforms is to solve the problem of lowering the threshold of backend development and speeding up business. The effect of the on-line cycle.
In the R&D process, the front-end and back-end development is only a part of the R&D process, just like the sales of porcelain. The front-end and back-end development is like completing the 0.1 stage of porcelain. There will be testing and online management processes in the future, and then expand to the front. There will also be steps such as product requirements refinement, prototype design, and high-fidelity design. Ever since, the so-called "R&D efficiency management platform" appeared, such as: PingCode, Ones, etc.
There are too many tools, but the efficiency does not increase but decreases?
Just like a home, one or two pieces of furniture that can facilitate life, such as beds, tables, chairs, or some necessary white goods (refrigerators, washing machines, rice cookers, etc.), can indeed greatly improve the convenience of life. But if there are too many things, when doing everything, you may subconsciously think about whether you need to use some useless tools that you bought back, and people will be hesitant, resulting in more or less internal friction.
Enterprises are made up of people, and the use of tools in the software development process is similar. If there are too many tools to solve problems in different scenarios, let’s not mention that each tool has training and learning before it is used by employees. Cost, each tool has a visual management background, the login account and permissions need to be reconfigured, the business configuration process is configured again, and then based on the use of the software, the existing silky workflow may need to be fine-tuned... How painful it is At the same time, the energy of enterprise personnel is also spent on meaningless software applications.
The development of small program technology has brought a lot of room for imagination to the research and development field
At the technical level, in the more than ten years since the evolution from Web 1.0 to 2.0, mobile apps have been the main battlefield for major software providers to compete for consumers' fragmented time. HTML5, a standardized and universal text content encoding format, has been widely used and eventually became one of the cornerstones of the Internet. During the evolution from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, the extension of software technology standards, the coding and content format of small program technology, are based on HTML5 as a whole, which is lighter, more open and more viable.
From the perspective of standards, almost all the small program technologies on the Internet have borrowed from the specifications of WeChat, the pioneer in this field. It can be said that the WeChat Mini Program is the "fait accompli" standard in this field. Therefore, W3C, the maker of the Internet series of global standards, is also formulating international standards through its Mini-Apps working group.
At the level of business ecology, starting from WeChat’s first launch of mini-programs in 2017, after four years of development, major Internet giants have launched their own mini-program application platforms one after another, and mini-programs have become the real “Internet new technology standard”. As of the first half of 2021, the number of mini-programs on the entire network has exceeded 7 million. Among them, WeChat mini-programs are the mainstream of the industry, with more than 4.3 million, accounting for about 61.43%.
There are not only the support of technical ecology and surrounding hardware and software, but also the vigorous development of business ecology. As the so-called "long time must be divided", does the R&D management tool no longer develop in a "schizophrenic" style, but takes into account both business and R&D attributes, and provides a real business-R&D integrated management platform?
"New" business - research and development of collaborative weapons
The "new" here does not mean the innovation that really wants to subvert the market technology, but that the tool management platform can take into account the business-R&D on the same platform, and the collaborative management of the real online business.
I recently tried out the FinClip applet management platform and found that it already has a prototype of a similar concept:
reducing the cost of application development. From the perspective of research and development, the FIDE debugging tool it provides can upload the small programs developed by the enterprise for online debugging and compilation, and manage the small programs required by the business in a one-stop manner. At the same time, there will be some preset plug-ins in the IDE tool for easy activation during development, or self-developed by using a custom API to better call the App's own capabilities. From this point of view, as a decoupled development of hybrid apps, it is a very good development management platform: develop once, run at most social platforms and apps, and even multi-terminal devices with different screen sizes and different scenarios.
Improve business management efficiency. From the perspective of the business side, the small program management background it provides can conveniently remove and remove existing small programs (whether self-developed or third-party) and connect the application side to meet the needs of business personnel in actual operations. , What business needs to appear in what cooperative App for personalized control of business delivery. At the same time, the function of its gray-scale release is to control the crowd, to personalize the crowd for business marketing, and to ensure the fineness of the marketing granularity.
write at the end
It seems that there is no near-perfect product on the market that takes into account R&D and business collaboration, and can also pay attention to ecological connection tools. Of course, everything is constantly evolving, there is no best, only better. I hope that in the near future, we can see more management platforms that can take into account the integration of R&D and business operation processes. The original intention of this kind of management background that takes into account the operation of multiple roles must be based on the keynote of "connection" and "openness" to design product functions and expand capabilities. market value and business value.