Week 6
Week 6

Intro to No/Low-Code Frontend Tools

Intro to No/Low-Code Frontend Tools

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What is a Front-End?

If an App was a house 🏠, the front-end would be the interior design.

The front-end is the part of the app that the user 👤 interacts with.

When we were building wireframes, we were building a front-end.

Front-end is typically built using a combination of

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

The Structure

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

The Design

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Javascript

How it all interacts

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"Everything you’re seeing on this website right now was made possible by a front-end developer. A designer created the logo and graphics, a photographer took the pictures, and a copywriter wrote the text. But a front-end dev assembled all of those pieces, translated them into web-speak, and built the experience you have with each page."

What are No/Low Code Tools?

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“No-code” tools are software development platforms that allow even non-technical employees to build and deploy their own applications without writing a single line of code. - the Internet

No-code platforms can build software without the user having to modify the underlying codebase. They typically use a visual interface that guides users step-by-step through the development process. In many cases, these tools use drag-and-drop functionality.

Low-code platforms may call for limited amounts of coding, requiring non-technical users to work together with developers during some or all of the development process. The solutions may have a mixture of visual interfaces and coding sections, so they do offer some guidance.

No-code/Low-code solutions both have their uses, so choosing between them requires understanding their strengths and weaknesses. You could also end up using no-code platforms for some teams and use cases, and low-code tools for projects that require greater customization.