Low-code Development — Future Trend For Digital Businesses

Trieu Lam
Sheetsu
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4 min readJan 17, 2018

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Developing on decades of computer science and industry collaboration, low-code development refers to the fact that such platforms offer simplified and visually guided forms of programming. Low-code development tools are now enabling organizations to create reusable software components that represent business services. Non-technical users can assemble these into their enterprise applications to fulfill a variety of business goals. According to the Low Code Snapshot Survey, 82% of IT organizations say that they are willing and ready to try low code revolution in their teams.

The high code development is defunct … and costly

The low-code market, which has been researched by Forrester, initially began as a toolset for developers that served as an alternative to coding. According to Forrester Research, hand-coding is too slow to develop and deliver many of the applications that companies use to win, serve, and retain customers. Because of this fact, a growing number of organizations are turning to new low-code platforms that accelerate app delivery by dramatically reducing the amount of hand-coding required.

The benefits of low-code revolution for digital start-up

When you create a digital strategy, develop a deeper understanding of how to improve customer experiences, rationalize the potential impact of new digital competitors, and consider strategic implications of leveraging emerging technologies. As a result, all these and other analyses that go into a digital transformation program and you’ll soon realize that a significant part of executing the plan will involve modernizing legacy and develop new applications.

Low-code platforms offer simplified and visually guided forms of programming that allow many more people to participate in coding. In contrast to high-code development, where you have an unlimited degree of freedom to code anything, the low-code revolution offers a more accessible approach to how everything is done. If that plan fits what you want to do, you can go fast.

Low code revolution brings down great benefits to digital businesses in many ways:

  • Lowering the cost of maintenance and increasing the pace of innovation,
  • End users quickly adapt and leverage the applications to deliver business value,
  • Higher return on the platform investment with more applications developed,
  • Platform’s productivity impact around rapid development,
  • Avoid vendor locking and to ensure applications developed can be easily supported.

Building truly website without any coding skills

For many businesses, a site is just the business’s online presence, an URL to be found. For other start-ups, however, the website is the business. In the world where a site was a complete entity in and of itself, entrepreneurs who want to build this kind of website business either have to employ software engineers or be software engineers. Bubble.is, a cloud-based tool, may change that.

Bubble.is is for users who have never written a line of code. With Bubble.is, the programming is done visually by dragging and dropping individual elements onto a page. The workflow-based programming enables you to define exactly what happens, action by action. You can build your own data structures, develop your own logic, and allow your users to upload their own content.

bubble.is — visual framework for creating web applications

Bubble.is also integrates with a bunch of other popular services, like Sheetsu — a platform that implementing any Google Sheets to your Bubble app using Sheetsu API to read and write data. These are excellent tools combined for those who are looking to launch a website or app seamlessly.

It’s no secret that hand-coding mobile and web app development is being switched to a new class of tools called low-code that enables non-programming “citizen developers” to meet the unlimited demand for apps with a sparsity of coding pros. By such typical feature functionality such as point-and-click programming, drag-and-drop composability, cloud-based workflows and similar techniques, those low-code platforms like Sheetsu and Bubble.is can power all users’ capacity in building apps.

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