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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

You're reading from   Rapid Application Development with OutSystems Create applications with OutSystems up to seven times faster than with traditional technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208759
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Pereira Ricardo Pereira
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: OutSystems 101
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the OutSystems Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Components, Tools, and Capabilities 4. Chapter 3: Starting Work with OutSystems 5. Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
6. Chapter 4: Using Your Modules to Simplify and Encapsulate Your Code 7. Chapter 5: Modeling Data by Using Entities 8. Chapter 6: Server-Side Logic 9. Chapter 7: Exceptions Handling 10. Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
11. Chapter 8: Reactive UI Development 12. Chapter 9: Using Mobile Patterns for Fast Mobile UI Development 13. Chapter 10: Client-Side Logic 14. Chapter 11: Local Storage and Data Synchronization 15. Chapter 12: Debugging and Troubleshooting Mobile and Reactive Web Apps 16. Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform
17. Chapter 13: Designing the Architecture of Your OutSystems Applications 18. Chapter 14: Integrating OutSystems with Your Ecosystem 19. Chapter 15: BPT Processes and Timers – Asynchronous Tools in OutSystems 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how server-side logic works, the artifacts available, and how to combine them to obtain the intended behaviors from our actions.

We learned what Server Actions are, the concept of variables in the context of Server Actions, how to create logic in Server Actions, and the properties of the attributes used.

Something very important to remember from this chapter is the fact that we should, whenever possible, abstract and isolate the manipulation of our data in Server Actions so that we can better control their integrity. In addition to being careful in Server Actions, we must always remember to set the Expose Read Only attribute of our entities to Yes. With this we guarantee that the data in our entities is only handled by our Server Actions in the consumer modules, thus guaranteeing that no user or application can write or change the data without complying with the defined rules, preventing the existence of dirty data.

As we have seen, we are...

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