1. What is Low-Code? The term low-code was coined by Forrester in 2014, but the idea have arguably existed for decades, and can to some extent be seen in 25+ year old software systems such as Access, Excel, and Visual FoxPro. Although often used interchangeable, the terms low-code and no-code have some differences. Where no-code is typically often associated with “citizen development”, enabling non-software developers to create software systems, by dragging and dropping visual elements on the screen - The term low-code is more often used to describe automating repetitive software development tasks, having the computer automatically create the code,...
In this article we will go through the following concepts. The pub/sub design pattern, also known as “the Hollywood design pattern” Basic web socket theory, and how to publish and subscribe to socket messages Authorisation to prevent malicious users from intercepting our messages How Magic automatically solves a lot of your socket related problems Finally we’ll show and tell with a video how Magic’s web socket implementation is tied together Web Sockets allows for a bidirectional communication channel, through which your server can “push” data to the client, triggering events on the client when something occurs on the server. This...
When you first start Magic you will have to configure it. Before I guide you through this process though, please realise that Magic’s frontend dashboard was created to be able to manage multiple backends. This is the reason it asks you for a “Backend” as you start it. If you’re using the source code ZIP download of Magic, you should provide the following in the backend textbox. http://localhost:5000 If you use the docker images you should provide the following. http://localhost:4444 If you have installed Magic on a VPS, you need to provide the backend primary URL to your backend, whatever...
I’ve got the best software development team on the planet. If I ask my backend head of development to split the atom, his answer will be; “Do you need it before lunch?” - And if ask my frontend team lead to do something that’s never been done before, nobody knows how to do, and everybody says is impossible, her answer will be; “Challenges! PARTY!!” However, instead of me using words to explain the difference, I’ll let her work speak for me. The above is a screenshot of the brand new frontend, in its entirety done by our frontend girl, in...
Before I tell you our plans for the next 5 months, let me bring you down the memory lane in regards to what we’ve done the last 7 months. Why the last 7 months you may ask? Because I quit my day job in June of 2021, so what we’ve done so far should give you a nice pointer in regards to how much we’ll be able to do over the next 5 months. Also realize that until 1st of December I was literally alone, and we’re now a team of 3 full time working developers pulling in the same...
