Master Mendix: Low-Code App Development for All Levels-Part1

Explore no-code and low-code approaches, learn about Mendix and where to find information, and get introduced to the Mendix ecosystem by installing Mendix Studio Pro as the course development tool.

Compare no code and low code development and discover Mendix's advantages for rapid, efficient app creation with internal and external database support, easy integrations, and Java extensibility.

Explore Mendix Studio and Mendix Studio Pro as two development environments, noting Studio Pro consolidates web and desktop tools and is used throughout the course for enhanced low-code development.

Install Mendix Studio Pro on Windows or Mac, sign up with a work email, review release notes and long-term support, and complete the installation for upcoming tutorials.

Explore scrum as an agile framework for Mendix projects, emphasizing transparency and adaptation. Identify core roles, ceremonies, and artifacts like product owner, scrum master, backlog, and increment.

Learn to implement scrum within Mendix by creating a blank app, managing roles, epics, and stories on a Jira-like board, and using git and svn repositories for collaborative development.

Explore building a bike rental app in Mendix: create pages, a bikes list with filters, an edit and save workflow via microflows, and a bicycle entity with status enum.

Explore the Mendix domain model, where you define entities like shop and branch, set relationships, indexes, and event handlers. See how validation and logging enhance a bicycle rental app.

Explore the domain model as a visual database with persistent, non-persistent, and remote data hub entities. Learn relationships like one-to-many and one-to-one, and understand inheritance, security, and external OData services.

Explore micro-flow, the core Mendix structure built on the domain model, and learn how Mendix manages transactions from start to end events depicted by green and red circles.

Add the community commerce module to a Mendix project to access built-in string utilities and ORM features, then explore microflows, start and end events, and error handling.

Create and edit variables in a Mendix microflow using create variable, change variable, and show message actions. Manage start and end transactions and authorization to run the app.

Learn to implement if conditions in Mendix microflows by using decisions, expressions, and subflows to control messages and branching based on true or false outcomes.

Retrieve bicycle records from the database via micro flows and access related shop data through associations, sort by model year, debug with breakpoints, and enforce authorization when triggering microflows.

Explore Mendix loops by building a loops microflow that retrieves bicycle lists, iterates with while and for each, updates each brand, and commits after the loop to optimize performance.

Activate a UI button to run a Mendix microflow that retrieves shops with XPath constraints and demonstrate list operation types—union, intersect, subtract, and contains—to combine results.

Create and edit Mendix in-client objects with a new microflow, set shop attributes (name, location, status), use if conditions and enumeration values, and refresh the UI after commits.