1. Low-code concept
In modern software development, low-code development platforms are getting a lot of attention. So, what is a low-code development platform? Simply put, it is a development environment that can provide a rich graphical user interface , allowing developers to build applications by dragging and dropping components and models . Compared with traditional development methods, low-code development platforms have the advantages of quickly building applications , reducing development time and costs , and improving development efficiency .
This article will discuss the application scenarios and advantages of the low-code development platform through specific cases and analysis, and give some practical suggestions.
2. Low-code application scenarios
1. Form-based/engine-driven mode
It is mainly oriented to process scenarios, by creating multiple forms, using process concatenation, defining report output methods, and building form-type light applications. The technical barriers of this type of mode are not high, and it mainly supports the development of form-based applications. The scenarios have certain limitations, and it mainly serves small and medium-sized customers.
2. The model based on aPaaS platform
It is mainly oriented to application development scenarios, and includes a variety of specific technical means and paths, such as model-driven, code generation, visual programming, etc. The underlying technology involves cloud native, metadata, multi-tenancy, etc. This type of model has higher technical barriers, finer granularity, higher complexity and flexibility, can support complex application development in a wide range of scenarios, and has the ability to serve large customers and small and medium customers.
3. What problems can low-code solve?
In the field of operation and maintenance, low code mainly solves two major problems:
1. Operation and maintenance workflow direction
In the direction of operation and maintenance workflow, low-code can be combined with process engines to greatly reduce the difficulty of work, while supporting personalization and scalability.
- Low-code platforms need to be able to provide a built-in process engine. Based on this, you can customize the orchestration process and perform common operation modes such as serial writing, parallel writing, and branching;
- The node plug-in supports scalability, and can easily and quickly connect to the original system in the enterprise;
- The cost of node development is as low as possible, and node parameters are defined through forms.
On the JNPF development platform, we have realized low-code, cross-system and other process design in some scenarios, such as approval process, release and change process in standard operation and maintenance, pipeline continuous integration process of DevOps platform, and data platform for data processing flow, etc.
2. Operation and maintenance development direction
For the operation and maintenance development team, development and operation and maintenance are very time-consuming. The core focus of the development team is how to improve the efficiency of tool research and development. In this scenario, low-code can greatly reduce the entry threshold for operation and maintenance development, allowing operation and maintenance personnel to develop various operation and maintenance SaaS layer tools based on existing platforms, thereby enhancing the value of operation and maintenance development.
- Unified development framework, specifications, and processes. Firstly, standardize the standard process framework.
- Unified operation and maintenance hosting. Deployment and hosting through PaaS to achieve one-click deployment and release.
- Popularize the low-code development model. Promote and popularize the efficient development model based on low code in the operation and maintenance team.
4. Design ideas for low-code platforms
Before designing, first determine the design goals. Through the analysis of potential low-code customers in the field of operation and maintenance, it is clear that the design goal of the low-code platform is to allow customers to develop SaaS faster. At the same time, we do not provide a simple page dragging tool, but allow operation and maintenance developers to Based on the platform, learn and master a general operation and maintenance development technology, avoiding the binding of skills and platforms, which limits the technical development of developers.
With a relatively clear user portrait and scene, the next step is to determine the features that the platform needs to have:
- First of all, the learning cost of the low-code platform in the field of operation and maintenance should be low, otherwise it will bring great obstacles to the transformation of the operation and maintenance team;
- Secondly, it must have a high degree of scalability to deal with various complex supervision and control scenarios in the field of operation and maintenance;
- Finally, allowing the operation and maintenance development team to continue to grow technically will help improve the operation and maintenance development skills and maintain the stable progress of the team.
In this regard, the JNPF rapid development platform is better. Let's start with this tool and talk about it.
Application address: Yinmai- JNPF Rapid Development Platform_Low Code Development Platform_Zero Code Development Platform_Process Designer_Form Engine_Workflow Engine_Software Architecture (jnpfsoft.com)
1. The landing form of the platform
- The front-end UI interaction page is presented:
The JNPF low-code platform adopts the method of dragging and dropping components to assemble pages + code generator. This move has good adaptability to complex interaction scenarios; it is also conducive to the introduction of operation and maintenance development technology and the improvement of capabilities, which does not conflict with pure code development technology and tool libraries, and achieves complementary capabilities.
- Background API logic development:
The JNPF low-code platform achieves the purpose of supporting more powerful functions by providing a background framework, online visual database table creation, and integrated database addition, deletion, modification, and query APIs, allowing users to complete database table design and API development online as much as possible.
2. Front-end interactive page design and implementation
Based on SpringBoot+Vue3 front-end and back-end separation mode:
Vue.js is a popular JavaScript front-end framework that allows developers to easily build web applications and UI; the framework integrates various commonly used Demos such as forms, reports, charts, and large screens for easy and direct use; integrated code generators support Front-end and back-end business code generation to meet rapid development.
Let the front-end UI interactive page display to realize online one-stop development:
- Realize multiple page management;
- Flexible assembly and implementation;
- Multi-terminal and multi-framework can be expanded;
- Extensible component library;
- One-click deployment is possible.
