Low-Code/No-Code and APIs: Make the most out of your API Landscape

Low-code/no-code is a class of tools that has been around for a long time. Sometimes they are called "visual programming" and the general idea of these tools is that they make programming easier and more easily accessible to non-developers.

Sometimes people talk about "citizen developers" or "citizen coders", and it is the same general idea: With so much information and so many services available, it should be possible for a larger set of people to build new things based on these resources and services.

This category of tools has been around for a while, but with the increasing investment in APIs and API landscapes, now we have many more resources and services that we can connect with them. Therefore, giving this space a fresh look can help you to see new opportunities how to better use the APIs that you have.

Shubham Sharma is an expert in the low-code/no-code space and runs a YouTube channel dedicated to this topic. Shubham walks us through the two big classes of tools (app builders and automation tools) and shows us a few tools and their goals and capabilities.

👉 Shubham on YouTube: youtube.com/@shubham_sharma
👉 Make (formerly Integromat) automation tool: www.make.com/
👉 n8n automation tool: n8n.io/
👉 node-RED automation tool: nodered.org/
👉 Glide app builder tool: www.glideapps.com/
👉 Bubble app builder tool: bubble.io/
👉 FlutterFlow app builder tool: flutterflow.io/

The image of the tool ecosystem is from this source: medium.com/@unigram_labs/the-low-code-no-code-ecos…

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00:00 Hello Shubham Sharma
00:40 The promise of low-code/no-code
01:48 Explaining low-code/no-code: High-level abstraction programming
03:42 API landscapes as low-code/no-code foundation
04:22 Categories of low-code/no-code tools
04:57 App builders
05:47 Automation tools
07:35 Make automation tool
11:32 n8n and node-RED
12:23 Making HTTP requests in Make
13:27 Glide app builder
15:50 Bubble app builder
15:50 FlutterFlow app builder
16:50 The app builder tool market
18:48 Wrap-up and T-shirt s