From the course: No-Code Planning Principles for the Web

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How does the data flow?

How does the data flow?

- [Instructor] If you're making a website that provides information, this is where you need to think about what kind of content you'll include, how it will be organized, what kinds of themes you'll include, pull together images and other multimedia and so forth. But what if you're building an app? At this point, it's all about the data. Your app is getting data from somewhere, changing it in some way and sending the data somewhere else. Generally speaking, data might come from one of two types of sources and you might include both of these sources in your app. First, consider a database or a spreadsheet. This is a very common source of data and there are lots of no-code tools for managing this kind of data, like Airtable, Google Sheets and many others. But how does that data get into the sheet? Where does it come from? Who maintains it? The other data source is an API or application programming interface. An API…

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