Low-Code and No-Code: The Revolution
The movement towards low-code and no-code methods of development is nothing short of a game-changer. Here is a brief recap of how it works, what it means for our jobs in the IT ecosystem, and what opportunities you should keep an eye on.
What are no-code and low-code exactly?
No-code
Can you build an application without writing a single line of code?
The answer is yes.
No-code means quite literally that there is no coding involved at all during the entire development process. Instead, you’ll use a UI to build your application via drag-and-drop tools.
These UIs offer you a visual modelling experience during development: you will be able to visualize how your app is structured every step of the way. This drag-and-drop process works in a manner akin to building with Legos. You will be able to connect many different interlocking pieces. You can connect your application to every tool you might need: Slack, Twitter, or a payment system like Stripe, for example.
Low-code
Low-code development works on almost the exact same premises: everything is built using drag-and-drop UIs. The only difference is that you might need a developer to manually handle integration between the different ‘Lego pieces’ you are working with. It is a matter of passing data from one point to another, and manually coding those bridges where data is exchanged.
One example of low-code development is?Not Real Twitter, a faux-Twitter platform that operates just like its namesake. It was built using a drag-and-drop tool called Bubble (a low-code tool). Because Bubble is low code, this means that there is still some integration work to do. But even this work has the option to be done with a set of drag-and-drop tools.
The Low-Code No-Code Revolution
When we say revolution, we mean it.
Imagine that you want to create a company today. The biggest roadblock from the previous era of app development was,?that I have an idea for an app but no developers. With the low-code and no-code revolution, you will be able to create your app yourself.
The market will explode with new creators. All of us will be able to enter the market as developers, without any training at all.
In terms of web apps, we can create beautifully responsive CMS-driven websites with Webflow. With Webflow the website is not so rigid: the design is able to be assembled, changed, and shifted around with ease. No-code sites are thus extremely fast to create.
The Tech Jargon website is no-code. It was built from scratch by a designer with no coding experience in only less than a week. All functionality is available without touching a single line of code: to book a?training,?for example, you can enter your information, which we then automatically receive in our database in the backend.
There were two people involved in the whole website design, one designer and a marketer. What took them five days without any code at all would normally take a month?with?code. This makes sense because most of the work of creating a website is in design. That is not what developers should be (or will be) focusing their energy on!
A look into low-code and no-code tools
You can build many things yourself without code using the following tools:
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What’s next for clients and recruiters?
The low-code no-code revolution is about building tools that make business easier in a different way. In this new era, businesses will not need a developer until they want to scale, and maybe not even then.
We need to consider several questions to comprehend the impact on our IT ecosystem.
Obviously, this greatly changes the needs of your clients, and who you will be scouting to meet those needs.
Clients will no longer need developers to run marketing campaigns, build corporate websites, and extract data. Instead, designers and data analysts will be responsible for this.
With a designer’s three main tools Figma, Sketch, and Adobe HD, a designer will be able to meet almost all a client’s needs!
Clients?will?still need developers in some capacity, just not in the role they currently occupy today. Developers can build no-code tools and create integration possibilities that do not yet exist. They are artists and need space to think outside the box in this new paradigm. For example, Salesforce is a software company that employs thousands of highly qualified software engineers to develop no-code tools.
Right now, it is a bit too early to tell your client,?I’ll find you an amazing developer who knows Webflow, and we’ll have your website ready in two weeks versus a developer’s three months.
If your clients are open-minded toward this idea, however, there are many more growth opportunities available to them. The more a company grows, the more complexities will arise, and it will need developers to fix them. Thus, developers will always be needed.
Whenever a new technology becomes available, it creates more opportunities for more people. For example, when JavaScript entered the market, many more people became developers than when C+ and Java were the only programming languages in existence. Still more people became developers when Python was released. The more technologies exist, the more the market is extended.
This revolution is in progress now. All kinds of startups and scaleups are using low-code and no-code tools. You can greatly accelerate your clients on the market if you help them shift to a low- or no-code way of development.
At the end of the day, the shift to low-code and no-code should not be scary. From a creator's point of view, the opportunities are huge, and as a recruiter, you can be at the forefront! We urge you to read more about it and how you can help your clients into this new reality.
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