I. Introduction
The popularity of low-code continues to increase, and the most obvious move is the investment of real money.
Alibaba launched the "cloud-nail-in-one" strategy to provide enterprises with full life cycle IT solutions; Tencent integrated the low-code platforms of various business units and launched the OTeam platform. NetEase has its own low-code platform, Huawei's AppCube has formed a collaboration with Huawei's ecosystem, Aisuda, a subsidiary of Baidu Smart Cloud, and WeDa, a direct cloud platform of Tencent, are both in the public beta stage. JNPF, a subsidiary of Inma Information, has emerged as a "dark horse" potential. Platforms owned by Microsoft and Siemens have also entered China in the past two years. Entrepreneurial companies that choose the low-code track have sprung up, and Internet giants have also begun to deploy low-code.
Under the trend of digitalization, internal IT, sales, finance and other departments of enterprises have the conditions to seek higher communication and collaboration efficiency. In particular, business personnel can rely on low-code platforms to build the product systems they need, which is more accurate and has lower development costs. .
Therefore, practical needs are the fundamental reason for the development of the low-code industry.
2. The low-code technology stack is not special.
First of all, low-code runs on technology stacks that are familiar to developers, and these technology stacks themselves are similar to low-code. For example, the server side of the JNPF code development platform is developed using .NET Core/JAVA Boot. jnpf-java-boot adopts the J2EE technology system and is a rapid development platform encapsulated based on the Spring Boot framework. It includes a variety of out-of-the-box functions, including RBAC functions, Xss cross-site attack prevention, automatic generation of front-end and back-end codes, and multiple storage systems. Multiple functions and modules such as multi-tenancy support parallel development of multi-business systems and parallel development of multi-services. The platform design is flexible, scalable and portable, and can apply high concurrency requirements while taking into account localization, private cloud and public cloud deployment. Support SaaS model applications.
The core technology adopts Spring Boot, Mybatis-Plus, MinIO and other major frameworks and middleware, and the front-end is customized and developed based on the vue-element-admin framework. Provide strong support for enterprise service-oriented middle-end integration and digital middle-end transformation.
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These technology stacks ensure the stability and reliability of the low-code development platform itself. More importantly, the platform's programming interface is also based on these technologies. Therefore, developers can use existing server code, SQL views, stored procedures, and styles to Tables, etc. are added to projects developed using low-code.
3. Do Java programmers need to understand low-code?
Gartner predicts that by 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will use at least four low-code development platforms for information application development. By then, 65% of app development will be done through low-code. Low-code will be a major trend in enterprise services, and Java programmers are encouraged to understand and master low-code.
The ultimate pain points of low code are:
For non-IT people, low-code can meet 80% of business needs, because low-code focuses on building and customizing enterprise personalized applications with "little or no code".
The low-code deployment process is as follows:
- During the development period, business personnel build the application bottom layer independently.
- During use, you can independently meet individual needs.
- Once established, keep updating iteratively.
During the use process, secondary development or gradually increasing personalized needs are required. Without the assistance of professional Java programmers, once a critical node is reached, users are likely to have to pay more than 80% of the cost to complete it. More importantly, developers understand the basic principles of software, computer architecture, databases, web terminals, etc. This knowledge reserve enables them to improve work efficiency, optimize the platform, and avoid detours.
Therefore, civilian developers who have not received professional programming training can use low-code development platforms to build simple applications for specific scenarios. However, for higher-value large-scale systems such as ERP and MES that are designed for core application scenarios, it is still difficult to The main stage for professional developers.
The rise of low-code has instead provided an idea for the growth of enterprise performance under the digital trend. Its original intention is to improve efficiency and lubricate joints. The Inma team has always believed that low-code will be beneficial to programmers' work in the foreseeable future. In addition, say things that everyone can understand and do things that everyone can understand, that is, empowerment rather than replacement. This is the application goal of low-code, and it is also the direction that low-code companies should work hard.