If you’re building consumer or customer apps, avoid development systems that charge you per-user, and avoid development systems that don’t deliver native-like performance. Many (but not all) of the commercial low-code and no-code systems offset your savings on labor costs with their licensing fees or subscriptions. The major selling points of low-code and no-code development tools are that they can be used successfully by lower-skilled, “citizen” developers that they can produce apps faster than using native SDKs and that they can produce apps for less money.
They are used to build mobile apps, deliver customer experiences, streamline workflows, modernize legacy applications, automate data integrations, and support data visualizations, to name the more common uses.
Today’s low-code and no-code development platforms enable teams of software developers-and even non-coders-to deliver, support, and extend a wide array of applications.