Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Blocks Within Blocks



Most no-code platforms offer you two choices when you decide to create a new app: start from a pre-built template and customize it or start from scratch. Betty Blocks will soon be able to provide you with a third choice - create your app by assembling "Blocks" from their "Block Store". 

No-code apps are built with interface elements, actions, and other objects that are "black boxes", chunks of program code developed by professional programmers. So why not take that concept a step further? With Betty Blocks, if you develop a nifty routine of some kind you can (in the near future) convert that routine to a "block". Then other developers on the platform can insert one or more "blocks" in their app to shorten the app-building process.

The "Block Store" is a little different from a library of plugins in that each block is something that any user could create using the standard features in the platform. However, some program routines can be complicated and time-consuming to construct and blocks could save you time and spare you the headaches involved in creating that routine yourself.

For an overview of what Betty Blocks envisions for the "Block Store" go to: https://docs.bettyblocks.com/en/articles/1786537-block-store-overview.

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