Low code development environment for GCP App Engine?

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Ray Welsh

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Oct 29, 2017, 3:37:55 PM10/29/17
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Can anybody recommend a low code development environment for GCP App Engine?


I am looking for something similar to Google's own AppMaker for G Suite, or Microsoft's PowerApps that can be used to build web applications (mobile apps to follow) without the need to write code in Python, Java, PHP or similar, and dealing with the complexity of getting this development environment set-up on GCP App Engine - I am not a full-time coder with this experience.


The aforementioned low code environments provide all the facilities I need for creating the simple database and forms-based applications, but can't be used to create stand-alone, public facing apps. I would like to host on the GCP.

Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)

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Oct 30, 2017, 3:30:54 PM10/30/17
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The Google Cloud Platform provides solutions such as App Engine that allows you to deploy your web applications written in any language to virtual machines that scale up and down to meet the needs of your traffic. 

This means that you can develop the UI and UX (user interface and experience) of your web application in any third-party application builder, connect it to the Storage source and Database of your choice (using the available Google Cloud Client Library in your language if you choose the Google storage options), then deploy it to App Engine to be served

I would recommend taking a look at the Serving Websites guide as a general overview and starting point to building your web application on App Engine. Essentially, once you have deployed a Hello World tutorial you can then use the same configuration files with your web application to deploy it to App Engine. 



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