Nicolas Hili
ABSTRACT
The design of Web information systems undergoes a number of complex activities each one requiring specific skills. For instance, the design of the front-end requires human factors and ergonomic skills. In contrast, the design of the back-end requires particular knowledge on network traffic performance or protocols, or data management requiring database concepts' knowledge. All of those have one point in common: programming skills are needed in order to develop and integrate all these different layers to create a system. We propose a low-code approach to alleviate the need for programming skills at the back-end level. The approach allows one to define a meta-model of the Web information system concepts, from which a fully-functional administration user interface is generated. In addition to the user interface, REST routes are also generated conforming to the meta-model specification, along with customization capabilities provided by the low-code platform. This paper presents the approach through a proof of concept implementation.
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- A light-weight low-code platform for back-end automation
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