6 Develop Your Application
To develop your application, you must have a visual application. The visual application provides all the resources you need to start building your application.
If you're already in the Designer (with your screen looking something like this), that means you have a visual application and can get to work:
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If your screen doesn't look like this, you need to create a visual application and add web (and mobile) apps to it.
To develop your web (or mobile) application, you create and edit the building blocks that determine how your application looks and behaves. The basic building blocks of an application are user interface components, variables, action chains, page flows and page navigation, JavaScript functions, and data access through REST endpoints.
Visual Builder doesn't impose any particular order for developing your application. How you proceed is entirely up to you and determined by the way you planned your application. If you already know the structure of your objects or the data sources you want to use, you might want to start by defining business objects and service connections. Alternatively, you can start with your application's pages and create the artifacts that add functionality to your pages. For example, you might start by defining page variables and creating action chains, in addition to positioning components on the page. All of this can be done effortlessly in the Designer. Keep reading to familiarize yourself with how apps are structured, what scopes are, and which editors you'd use to work with different artifacts.
- Learn how to manage a visual application,
- Optionally, integrate your visual application with a Git repository,
- Take steps to test and debug your app,
- When you're done making changes, stage and publish your app to deploy the app's resources to the Visual Builder runtime environment.