1) Betty Blocks is reflecting on one year of development where they added improvements to speed, import functionality, authentication profiles, and UI builder updates while only inserting 151,649 lines of code and deleting 44,500 lines. 2) Looking ahead, Betty Blocks plans to continue prioritizing developer happiness through additional components, actions, web services, and scheduled jobs updates in the blocks store as well as test automation and special partnerships. 3) Betty Blocks also previewed new functionality including a new version of the blocks store, block permission levels, micro apps using entire app features, UI actions to enable complex interactions, responsive mobile applications with native functionality, and certification programs.

1. Betty Blocks the Product
A look back and a peek into the future

3. Daniel Willems Jelmer Kok
Product OwnerCTO

4. 365 days of development
2803 151.649 44.500
File changes Lines inserted Lines deleted

5. Building a great platform is not
always about adding big features

6. Developer Happiness
Theme

7. ● Speed improvements
2017, stuff we added

8. Speed improvements
Booting an
application
Save and
looping
Expressions

9. 2017, stuff we added
● Speed improvements
● Import functionality

11. 2017, stuff we added
● Speed improvements
● Import functionality
● Authentication profiles

12. 2017, stuff we added

13. ● Speed improvements
● Import functionality
● Authentication profiles
● UI Builder updates
2017, stuff we added

14. 2017, stuff we added

16. New stuff
Available as of today!

17. New version of the
Blocks
Store

18. ● Speeding up development is
one thing
● Not having to develop is even
better!
● Reusage at every level
New version of the Blocks Store

19. Work together
Citizen Developer Experienced Developer

20. Have one...
Prepare Blocks...
..For the other

21. No-code with
an escape hatch

22. ● Development (just you)
● This application
● Your organisation (or others)
● Public (everybody)
Works for every Block
Block Permission Levels

23. Micro Apps
Feature Blocks

24. ● What everybody expects in software development
● It never works in coding
● It works on Betty Blocks
● (Re)Use entire feature of an app
Micro Apps

25. UI Components

26. UI Actions

27. ● One page applications
● Build complex interactions
● Place them in our Blocks Store
UI Actions, the missing piece

28. Custom Development
If you think you can handle it

29. You’re No-Code, so what
can’t I do on your platform?

30. No-code with
an escape hatch

31. Experienced developers
Your average experienced
developer (what else?)

32. Custom Development
Custom UI Component + Custom UI Actions

33. And Mobile..

34. Responsive design
Native look and feel

35. ● Drag & Drop a Native Look-and-feel application
● Combine it with a portal, in one app
● Build an App Store ready mobile app
● Use all of the native functionality
Yes, all of the native functionality..
Mobile

36. Next up!

37. ● More:
▸ Components
▸ Actions
▸ Webservices in the store
● Developer happiness stuff: Scheduled jobs update
Next up!

38. Next up!

39. More up the road ahead

40. ● Testing is underrated
● Incorporated in your workflow
● Built in the platform
● 360 degree approach, ALM
● With some external help
Test automation

41. Citizen Tester

42. Test automation
Build
Define scenarios
Build testRun tests
Put it live

43. Specialisterren partnership
● Social enterprise, Autism spectrum
● Not for profit, but for social impact
● Superb quality tests
● Human readable

44. Get certified

45. Enjoy!
See you June 5th, next Academy Night