How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Building a Low Code Development App?

They say- slow and steady wins the race. But, can we really trust this phrase anymore? 

As we live in a world with a high-paced competition! Everyone wants to win the race to achieve their goals. However, not placing this entire fable notion in doubt, the answer to the question - Well, that depends on what race you want to win.

When talking about the industry of creation- Software Development, these days, everyone is in a hurry. To keep up with the pace, companies are adopting low-code development platforms. This approach is effectively seen advancing businesses of all shapes and sizes, making them winners of the marathon.

Low-code development platforms are known to be in demand. These days as more companies opt for such platforms for software development to fetch better outcomes.

According to research by Forrester around 8% of the annual growth rate is expected to hit the market in 2020. Talking about 2021, the expected revenue from low-code development will hit the figures of $7.7 Billion, which is increased by 15%.

So, What makes a low-code development platform better? Why is it considered to be the low-hanging fruit that every business wants to get a hold of? How can you avoid the pitfalls to avail the best low-code development platform?

Relax.. relax.. we will answer ever What, Why, and How for you!! But first, let's start with the basics. 

Low-Code Development - The Essence

The Low-code development platforms or LCDP is said to be the digital solutions that allow the development of applications without having expert knowledge of coding. However, the platforms open many doors for non-tech users as well!

They can easily contribute the best to the software industry. It is because everything goes without worrying about time or complexity when compared to the conventional approach. 

Also, when comparing the software development from scratch, the low-code platforms can be less robust. But, still can drive success for your business. This platform is the best fit for companies that are focused on the forward direction. It allows them to deploy various applications much faster.

Want to build custom and robust software for your business? Set up your offshore development center of top coders across India and get started right away!

Here, with the features that come with intuitive components and roadmaps, businesses can happily create custom digital tools as per their needs.  Having the companies looking for options to expand their markets the only way to achieve the above said is by delivering the best digital solutions. To do so, the process has to be quick and efficient.

As a result, IT departments and CTOs/CIOs are generally seen trapped for time and resource management. Now, that's the time when low-code development platforms provide you with great potential to help you meet your business-related requirements. 

Let’s now take it further!!

Why To Use a Low-Code Framework?

We all know that custom code is exhausting. It is expensive and more prone to errors. The only individuals who can write it are the software engineers with high expertise. Understandably, you would badly want to avoid all that. After all, we are finally in 2021!!

Why not try and pull something off the shelf that is easy and fun to use? Moreover, saves you a lot of time.

We know... We know... That for you - Time is Money (or beyond)!!

With low-code development platforms, you can have an app that can be in the market tomorrow and get you all that matters. 

How?

There are a few pitfalls you may come across while using low-code development platforms. To make the most you must first learn to avoid them.

Read on to know how!!

How to Avoid the Pitfalls To Make the Most of Low Code Development?

Writing software is the process of taking a set of business requirements and teaching a computer how to repeat them thousands (or millions) of times exactly the same way.

Pros and cons are the two sides of the coin. As there are risks involved in the low-code platform, and a wrong choice can be costly.  

Here are some of the pitfalls and how can you avoid them while using Low Code Development Platforms. 

1. Low-Code Limits You to the Back Seat

Problem: When your project was in the initial stages, the low-code tool met the requirements exactly as you wanted. However, the moment the requests for enhancements pops up, it is more of a challenge to match those enhancements requests using the low-code tool. 

Expert Solution: According to experts, every development platform comes with its limit, but such platforms are extensible. Thus, you use several open technologies accordingly. Let's talk about the mobile and window containers, for instance.

They come with HTML, JavaScript, Electron, and more. Here, the developers execute their code in Javascript and later extend it using Javascript or even using WebSockets or more.

After having a one-on-one discussion with the professional team from Your Team in India, it was highlighted that we have a wide range of extensible frameworks.

These are generally the frontend frameworks implemented in React, so if any developer is comfortable with React, he/she can execute their own UI components.

2. Low-Code Development Platforms are Black Box

Problem: Low-code may bloat your code that can slow down your app. It may also prevent you from working with the datasets.

Expert Solution: Generally, with the software frameworks, there are certain areas where sustaining the edge cases or adding something out-of-the-box can slow down the process. 

If things are slow, the users will lose their productivity. 

According to companies like Toptal and Codepen, many developers can test the performance of the apps using real devices with large data volumes to make sure that everything is just as expected. 

From the app side, the architecture runs on a full-fledged database. The responsiveness of the apps remains the best, even by using large datasets.  Here, the professionals generally test against the most sophisticated elements, which later serve as their advanced data table. 

3. Vendor-Lock in - The Main Concern

Problem:  A black-box system is a must for the situation where it is a little tougher to move your codes. Now, it also puts vendor lock-in at risk. This is the reason why the developers hate Low-code as Peter Wayne mentions in an article.

Here, a major concern is that you just cannot get a hold of readable code from a low-code development platform. So, it gets hard to move your app to a different platform. 

Expert Solution:  Well, Low-code platforms that either:

• Do not give you any access to the source code of the app.
• Messes up with the generated code making it impossible to use.

Keeping these points in mind, you can use other platforms instead to write clean, readable code. You can even store your written code in your own GitHub integration and repositories to add to the app. 

Related read:- 8 Things you Must know Before Building an App

Last Words

While there may be many apprehensions for using low-code development platforms, it somehow has many benefits for the developers too.  However, some aspects lack customization and problems when integrating additional features by leading platform vendors. 

As these concerns are warranted for many. Therefore, developers are working hard to side-step from all the disappointments by following the solutions discussed above. Also, even the major concerns of low-code platforms can be addressed and developed easily. 

Lastly, in this digital era, Low-code is definitely a player.

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