Developers may be highly skilled and experienced, but they still realize that hand-coding is outrageously time-consuming. When businesses need to meet growing needs, it’s difficult to retain enough software developers to fulfill demand. Applications miss their deadlines and quality suffers. As a result, the popularity of low-code is on the rise. Further, citizen developers are already using low-code to create custom business apps and more. According to Gartner, low-code will comprise over 65% of application development by 2024. So, what is low-code and why isn’t it just for citizen developers?
What is low-code?
As people live and manage more of their lives digitally, the demand for new software will continue to rise. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned remote work from a niche trend towards becoming the new normal. Invariably, the demand for new applications is skyrocketing.Low-code uses automation to manage coding, debugging, testing, and application deployment. The low-code platform, or Integrated Development Environment (IDE), creates the application and offers the workflows and features to automate testing, debugging, and deployment either on premises or on the cloud. Then, after deployment, the application is managed and run by the platform.
Using a low-code platform can flush out high quality applications
Low-code platforms offer visual diagrams, drag and drop interfaces, and connectors to create workflows, entities, and relationships. In addition, they provide event, action, and process definition. In the background, the platform writes the software, backend databases, business logic, and designs the user interface. Next, the applications can be built, tested, and deployed in the cloud.It’s similar to rapid application development (RAD) tools like Visual Studio or Delphi where developers can access a visual designer to drag and drop a list of visual objects and then configure properties, actions, events, and data models.
