1. What is a low-code platform?
To put it simply, a low-code platform requires only a small amount of code or even no code to complete system development.
In the past, developing a system required software engineers to develop through code. Therefore, the development of any system required a large number of software engineer resources, which made many companies think of high cost investment when talking about system development.
However, the emergence of low-code platforms has completely changed the traditional software development model, enabling system development to be completed with a small amount of code or even no code , and automatically published to the cloud in real time, making it easy to use .
The essence of a low-code platform is to abstract the past code development process and form various configurable components. System development can be achieved by adding components + component configuration .
We can look at the core of the past code development system, which mainly includes four parts: data input, data flow, data processing, and data output.
The low-code platform mainly abstracts these four parts and forms configurable components.
1.Data input
The most common data input is a web page, which contains various fields, and data is collected through the fields.
The core is actually the layout of each field component on the page. In the past, these components were written in code. The low-code platform defines each web page as a form. These various field components are encapsulated on the form editing page and dragged in. That's it, and then configure it to quickly generate it.
The picture below is a screenshot of the form editing of the JNPF development platform. The left side is the component, the middle is the implementation effect, and the right side is the configuration of the component and form.
This actually appeared very early, most commonly seen in various previous questionnaire collection tools. However, there is still a big gap between questionnaire collection tools and low-code. First of all, for data input, the various forms of the questionnaire cannot call each other's data as new Input, while lacking data flow, data processing, and data output.
2. Data flow/data processing
The following are some ways to implement data flow in low-code platforms:
- Data sources and data targets: Low-code platforms often allow you to connect to different data sources such as databases, APIs, etc. and create data flows between these data sources and targets.
- Data mapping and transformation: Low-code platforms often provide data mapping and transformation tools that allow you to define data models in data flows and transform data between different data sources and targets.
- Business processes and rules: Low-code platforms often allow you to define business processes and rules to control the flow of data through your application. For example, you can define automated tasks that trigger under specific conditions, such as sending an email or updating a database record.
- Integrations and extensions: Low-code platforms often offer integration and extension options, allowing you to connect to other systems or services, or extend the functionality of the platform using custom code.
3.Data output
Data output is about displaying data results. In the past, it was mainly achieved through front-end code.
Low-code tools mainly provide two ways to output display data: views and dashboards:
(1) Selective simple data display on the portal
(2) Simple display of single table data by view
(3) The large screen provides a variety of chart combination display of single table/multi-table data
2. Development prospects of low-code platforms
If a concept can become popular in the technology circle, it is often both concise and concise, and has the potential to reshape the industrial structure.
In the low-code field, not only major Internet companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have joined in, they have even listed it as a key project. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of new applications in enterprises will be developed through low-code or no-code technology, which will accelerate the overall explosion of the low-code market.
The JNPF development platform shown above is a stalker in the low-code field, and its automated processing solves almost all workplace problems. It has now helped nearly a thousand companies achieve digital upgrades. These companies, regardless of size and business, can use JNPF to develop various management systems such as ERP, OA, CRM, and EHR . So many corporate cases are enough to prove that JNPF is trustworthy.
- Jiejiawei Innovation Energy Company quickly built an MES information system by using the JNPF low-code platform. Optimize the management of the entire product production process from order placement to product completion, make timely responses and reports to real-time events that occur in the factory, and use current and accurate data to provide corresponding guidance and processing.
- Shandong Lupu Technology Company has built an equipment management system by using the JNPF low-code platform to help enterprises realize informationization, paperless and intelligent equipment management, improve equipment availability, reduce costs, and realize digital management of equipment.
- A financial company built a new mobile customer service application by using the JJNPF low-code platform. The application has functions such as customer management, business processing, and online customer service, which improves customer satisfaction and increases customer stickiness.
- ……
If you also have digital transformation needs, put the address here and you can choose to experience other capabilities of the JNPF platform and build a simple application. JNPF official website: https://www.jnpfsoft.com/?csdn
3. Write at the end
Compared with traditional development, the framework and functions provided by low-code platforms can empower developers to a certain extent, freeing programmers from inefficient and untechnical CRUD to do more valuable and More efficient software development efforts. For example: business modeling, domain modeling, data structure design, business process design, business system debugging and deployment, etc.
In addition, there are many failure cases for traditional pure code development and implementation projects. If low-code implementation can prevent failure or improve the success rate, it will be of great value to the delivery of software development projects.