Rapid Application Development with OutSystems: Create applications with OutSystems up to seven times faster than with traditional technologies

Discover best practices to create simple, robust, and scalable software solutions quickly and securely, and focus on what's important - the business and the end customer

Key Features

• Discover strategies and tips for low-code and no-code development with the help of useful examples
• Build enterprise-scale reactive web and mobile applications
• Explore the benefits of low-code development

Book Description

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates.

The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case.

By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with the OutSystems infrastructure
• Develop reactive web and mobile applications in OutSystems using best practices in Service Studio
• Define and design Architecture Canvas (3-Layer Canvas) for your applications
• Integrate with external systems in OutSystems
• Enhance applications with BPT
• Manage and monitor your applications in the OutSystems infrastructure

Who this book is for

This book is for back-end developers, tech leaders, UX/UI developers, frontend developers, (in general, full-stack developers), tech companies, and enterprises looking to learn how to develop web and mobile software quickly and disruptively by leveraging OutSystems, one of the most low-code platforms in the market. An IT background is not mandatory; however, experience in SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and C# is required to get started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Exploring the OutSystems Platform
2. Components, Tools, and Capabilities
3. Starting Work with OutSystems
4. Using Your Modules to Simplify and Encapsulate Your Code
5. Modeling Data by Using Entities
6. Server-Side Logic
7. Exceptions Handling
8. Reactive UI Development
9. Using Mobile Patterns for Fast Mobile UI Development
10. Client-Side Logic
11. Local Storage and Data Synchronization
12. Debugging and Troubleshooting Mobile and Reactive Web Apps
13. Designing the Architecture of Your OutSystems Applications
14. Integrating OutSystems with Your Ecosystem
15. BPT Processes and Timers – Asynchronous Tools in OutSystems

Ricardo Pereira is passionate about programming, software, and technology. Coming from a computer science background, he has become, in the last 5 years, a strong bettor on OutSystems learning, holding all existing certifications of the platform. Furthermore, in 2020, he was named OutSystems Champion, participating in several events and following the mentoring program as a mentor. His time is distributed between software projects, learning, studying, and spending time with family. Ricardo lives with his wife and their two children in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. His greatest influence in the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement and being the best version of himself is his grandfather. Paulo Moreira, born in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, started his professional career with an airline company, back in 1988. While working as an aircraft maintenance technician, this was when IT was first introduced to him as a potential future career. And so it happened. He bumped into OutSystems a while later, in 2008, and since then it has been a permanent presence in his professional career. Again, (re)starting as a junior developer, Paulo quickly improved his technical skills with this low-code platform, on all skill sets applicable, including development, delivering, engaging, and more recently, training. He's currently a technical team leader at Nexllence, where he's also in charge of the OutSystems team's talent and training.