Re:Ask HN: Problems worth solving with a low-code back end?
by whalesalad on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:16AM
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The code part of low code is the easy part. It's integration with other things: API's, database engines, etc. The point of low-code is to give people without a coding ability the ability to connect systems together and perform transforms on the way, wrapping a SQL database with unique business logic and routines, or respond to real world events in an easy fashion (user purchases product, object state transitions from X to Y, a file appears in an FTP directory or a cloud storage bucket, an email is received, etc)
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Re:Ask HN: Problems worth solving with a low-code back end?
by jarirajari on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @03:36PM
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Well, integration is one aspect, and there are low-code tools like node-red etc. for those use-cases. One category of low-code tools is workflow automation tools, which maybe you are describing mostly. For me, I am interested in writing the business logic using functions. And what comes to the actual backend the data flow is the "normal" one:
User <---> API <---> Business logic <---> Database