Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
The use of no-code tools may be effective for building a simple MVP or landing page, but learning web development will allow you to have more creative and technical control over your website.
Exactly, totally agree! No-code / low-code tools are great for new projects, small startups, with a small team, and a small budget, to build a nice and professional website.
I have been working with WordPress, which can be customized with no code depending on themes and plugins (which can make the website slow and hard to understand and configure), or by a web developer, adding custom CSS on top (workarounds rather than elegant codes) or developing (child) themes which gives you full control over style, markup, JavaScript and even PHP backend code and possible custom fields in the database. But you have to understand, extend and tweak an existing system.
I have also used WebFlow, which has a very appealing user interface that looks like a design tool and offers UI controls to tweak CSS settings and add functionality like web forms processors, and it even has preview and custom styles for adaptive breakpoints.
But to me as a developer, using WebFlow is like a nightmare. You can't do tasks in parallel, can't open mutiple editor tabs at the same time, and it always takes a lot of clicks to achieve a goal. As soon as you try to add more than a few lines of JavaScript, it's time to eject the application and continue to work on it as a project without WebFlow (never tried yet, but they say it is possible).
web development is still going to generate opportunities for developers in the near future.
Definitely! Customers need developers for complex projects, and no-code tool vendors need developers to code the tools. So no-code tools are valuable software for specific situations, but we will never lose our jobs as developers just because no-code solutions exist.
Yes, agreed. And also taking into account the fact that web3 is being eyed by aloot of companies while being a new field within computer science and web development, it almost seems like there is always more to learn and the nocode tools will still lag behind. I am gratefull that our future as webdevs is looking bright. :)
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Exactly, totally agree! No-code / low-code tools are great for new projects, small startups, with a small team, and a small budget, to build a nice and professional website.
I have been working with WordPress, which can be customized with no code depending on themes and plugins (which can make the website slow and hard to understand and configure), or by a web developer, adding custom CSS on top (workarounds rather than elegant codes) or developing (child) themes which gives you full control over style, markup, JavaScript and even PHP backend code and possible custom fields in the database. But you have to understand, extend and tweak an existing system.
I have also used WebFlow, which has a very appealing user interface that looks like a design tool and offers UI controls to tweak CSS settings and add functionality like web forms processors, and it even has preview and custom styles for adaptive breakpoints.
But to me as a developer, using WebFlow is like a nightmare. You can't do tasks in parallel, can't open mutiple editor tabs at the same time, and it always takes a lot of clicks to achieve a goal. As soon as you try to add more than a few lines of JavaScript, it's time to eject the application and continue to work on it as a project without WebFlow (never tried yet, but they say it is possible).
Definitely! Customers need developers for complex projects, and no-code tool vendors need developers to code the tools. So no-code tools are valuable software for specific situations, but we will never lose our jobs as developers just because no-code solutions exist.
Yes, agreed. And also taking into account the fact that web3 is being eyed by aloot of companies while being a new field within computer science and web development, it almost seems like there is always more to learn and the nocode tools will still lag behind. I am gratefull that our future as webdevs is looking bright. :)