Internal apps – the (often) neglected child of software development
Summary
As Michael Novati at Facebook writes while talking about a company communication dashboard that he was making, “We’ve learned that effective enterprise communication tools need to be engineered specifically for our employees because our employee base and business needs are very unique.” Internal tools end up taking a decent amount of engineering time. These frameworks help reduce the amount of engineering effort required to build internal tools owing to a reusable and ever-increasing list of UI components, connectors or native integrations to data sources, collaborative features, and extensive documentation. Do check if the low code framework comes with robust and granular access control functionalities since that in most cases becomes a deal breaker when evaluating these tools for use within enterprises. Open Source low code frameworks give your team the power to control the speed of your development by reporting bugs and have a member of the community fix, it if not the maintainers. This becomes more important when you’re dealing with sensitive data and want to add an extra layer of security by hosting your applications on your own servers.