Application development involving instant prototyping
A system for developing software provides a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, the graphical user interface displaying features from a library of features for a custom software application, implements simulations of a plurality of the features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface, stores blocks of source code for each feature in a source code repository wherein the blocks are adapted to provide an actual application when compiled by developers, receives from the client device, by a server running a software building component, one or more selected features for the software application, automatically integrates, by the software building component, the one or more selected features to generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, and generates an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.
1. A system for developing software
comprising: at least one processor; and
at least one memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to acquire computer readable instructions stored in the at least one memory and execute the instructions comprising instructions to cause the system to:
provide a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, the graphical user interface displaying a plurality of features from a library of user-selectable features for a custom software application and implement simulations of a plurality of the features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface;
store blocks of source code for each feature in a source code repository,
wherein the blocks are adapted to provide an actual application when compiled by developers;
receive from the client device, by a server running a software building component of a software development application, one or more selected features for the software application;
automatically integrate, by the software building component, the one or more selected features that generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, wherein the system sends a query to a graph database implemented using nodes and edges and storing a history of projects and controlling connections between features using the graph database, and
generate on the graphical user interface an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inter-feature rules set define relationships or associations between features of the library of features.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the system is configured to include an embedding pipeline that responds to queries.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the system to automatically identify and add a new feature from the library of features to the selected features based on the inter-feature rules set.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the attributes of a feature comprise a first set of attributes configured to regulate how the feature may be called, and a second set of attributes configured to regulate which features the feature may call.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the feature comprises an interactive region configured to host an interactive element, the interactive element being configured to link to another feature and call that feature when the interactive element is actuated.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the system to generate a screen flow view of the integrated features set, the screen flow view comprising the features of the integrated set interlinked by connectors that represent the relationships between the features.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein both the features of the integrated set and the connectors between can be edited on the screen flow view.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the graph database is used to control actions in the system.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the system to generate source code for the software application based on the integrated feature set and using the blocks of source code.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the system to provide the user with the opportunity to select a template from one or more templates, wherein each template comprises a set of predetermined interconnected features, and subsequently provide the user via the graphical user interface the opportunity to select to add features to the template, and in response, the system is configured to automatically interconnect the selected added features with the set of predetermined interconnected features by using the inter-feature rules set, which provides an interactive prototype within the graphical user interface.
12. A computer-implemented method of a developing software comprising:
providing a graphical user interface on a display of a client device, the graphical user interface displaying a plurality of features from a library of user-selectable features for a custom software application;
implementing simulations of a plurality of the features available for demonstration through the graphical user interface;
receiving from the client device, by a server running a software building component of a software development application, one or more selected features for the software application;
automatically integrating, by the software building component, the one or more selected features that generate an integrated feature set based on attributes of each of the selected features and an inter-feature rules set, wherein the system sends a query to a graph database implemented using nodes and edges and storing a history of projects and controlling connections between features using the graph database; and
generating on the graphical user interface an interactive visualization of a navigable prototype of the software application based on the integrated feature set.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the inter-feature rules set define relationships or associations between features of the library of features.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the method including an embedding pipeline that responds to queries.
15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising automatically identifying and adding a new feature from the library of features to the selected features based on a recommendation from the graph database.
16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the attributes of a feature comprise a first set of attributes configured to regulate how the feature may be called, and a second set of attributes configured to regulate which features the feature may call.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the feature comprises an interactive region configured to host an interactive element, the interactive element being configured to link to another feature and call that feature when the interactive element is actuated.
18. The method of claim 12 , further comprising generating a screen flow view of the integrated features set, the screen flow view comprising the features of the integrated set interlinked by connectors that represent the relationships between the features.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein both the features of the integrated set and the connectors between can be edited on the screen flow view.
20. The method of claim 13 , wherein one or more rules of the inter-feature rules set are updated based on a history of selection of features for the software application.