The purpose of the low code platform is to enable collaboration and accelerate the speed of delivery of applications and quickly bootstrap. In addition, the low code platform also empowers application developers with pre-artificial engineering features and reusable components that will help develop and send applications that can be scaled
With many low code platforms available on the market to build applications, it is very confusing to choose the right platform that matches your current and future requirements. It is very important to understand the platform features and learning curves in your organization.
The IT department spends the month evaluating and choosing the right platform. The general approach to evaluating the low code platform is training, discovery, estimation, followed by POC.
Essential Modules
This blog provides a general description of the various capabilities of the low code platform that must make high-performance applications, which can be expanded, and ready in the future.
You can use the following checklist to evaluate various low code platforms and choose the most appropriate platform to serve your current and future needs.
The most important and minimum components that must be on each low code platform are visual development environments with drag and drop utilities, UI components that have been built & binding to data sources.
Role-based access to UI components such as widgets and pages is an important ability in the low code platform. Most low code platforms provide an easy way to hide or display certain parts of the page, or buttons based on the user’s role.
However, you must pay attention to whether this matches your use case. If you have a use case, where data must be filtered based on a role, let’s say you want to show all employees who report to managers in the organization, make sure you can achieve it without special coding.
The platform evaluation for web accessibility if you have strict requirements on the UX and Visual Guidelines to accommodate people with disabilities (adherence). Building consumer applications with luxury visual design requires a comprehensive evaluation.
If you build a company application, workflow, and process requirements cannot be avoided. Make sure the platform you choose has a way to quickly build a workflow.
Integration Modules
While standing-alone applications make good use cases for POC or MVP, integration with upstream or downstream systems to share data and events is important for corporate agility.
One case of using the low code platform is to enable building applications to improve operational efficiency. Most companies use several types of software and data systems.
The availability of catalog connectors is a feature that must be owned from a good low code platform.
Reusable Modules
The principle of Reusability states that “components must be easy to reuse.” There are many benefits with reuse including, an increase in productivity and quality.
Most low code platforms allow application developers to build modules/components that can be reused specifically.
For example, if there is a validator function address that will be implemented in several pages in the application, the UI component with address & validation buttons integrated with the API provided by vendors such as USPS.com or Google will significantly reduce code and quality efforts).
Reusable components can be used as infrastructure works than used in more than one application.
Collaboration Modules
Collaboration is the focus of the low code platform. Therefore, all low code platforms support the collaboration of team members throughout the support box for various version control systems such as GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
The successful development process requires a cross-functional team to be able to independently develop, build, disseminate, and intersection test technical barriers.
With the Drag and Drop Visual Editor to build the front end, UX designers can work on a design using a low code platform and developers can add the logic needed to make the page fully functional.
The low code platform is a tool kit that can be used by the entire team and participate productively in application development.
Deployment Modules
As I declare before, the rapid development and the deployment of applications to end-users is the main objective of the low code platform.
The ability to use applications to various environments (Dev, QA, Stage) and finally release to production must occur easily through internal deployment and life cycle management process.
Most of the low code platforms have the ability to configure the automatic spread of cloud-based. The ability to support container deployment tools such as Dockers and OpenShift / Kubernetes Multi-container deployment is to build applications that can be scaled.
Conclusion
In this blog, you learn about the Guide to evaluate Low-code platforms. This will help to understand it more clearly.
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