Low-Code is a fascinating tool. I once measured the productivity difference between a Low-Code scaffolding system such as Magic and a human software developer, and Magic is arguably several billion times faster than a human software developer. Simply because it creates rich and complex web apps in seconds, instead of months required for a human to do the same. In addition, Low-Code also allows for mere mortals to create rich web apps, resulting in that a human being with some basic IT knowledge can create complex web apps in seconds. The recipe found below could probably be executed in 5 minutes after a couple of dry runs getting used to the process, so let's get started and create a rich and complex web app, and let's try to do it in 5 minutes. However, before we start, let's look at what we are going to create.
If you want to try out the app, you can find our Sakila example app here. Login with "admin/admin" and play around with it as much as you please. Then realise the above app was created in literally 2 seconds. Adding the requirements to deploy the app and we are up to some roughly 5 minutes in total before you have the above app created and installed into production on a URL of your choosing. So let's get started. Before we start, realise the rest of this recipe was first published here, and it might change over time, since we are constantly trying to improve and simplify the process. Hence if you are reading this article some amount of time after it was published, please visit this link to make sure you are using the latest version of the tutorial.