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title: "What can Honeycode, AWS's new NoCode App Platform be used for?"
date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00
author: "poornerd"
tags: ["aws", "nocode", "review"]
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Now that nocode development is all the rage, I was curious to experience and rewview [Honeycode](https://www.honeycode.aws/) after AWS announced it's Beta release.

The first indication of the types of apps that would be possible glared at me from the top of the features page:

>Prepare app data in tables:
>First, set up data that your app will use in a Honeycode table. You can import data from CSV files or get a head start using a template.

![Prepare app data in the tables](/images/posts/prepare-app-data.png){:class="img-fluid w-75"}

It would be nice if the tables are at least something like CSV files on S3 which are also accesible by [Athena](https://aws.amazon.com/athena/) or by simply reading or writing an updated CSV file to the S3 Bucket.

I dug a bit further and discovered that there is no support from reading from or writing to API's. 

In terms of other features, I was able to add and use formulas in the tables like you would in a spreadsheet for calculating new values.  You can also create multiple tables with relationships - for example for lookup lists. You can also use authenticated AWS user accounts to share and manage access.

It is possible to setup simple workflows and trigger events with the **Automations** feature.

![Honeycode Automations](/images/posts/honeycode-automations.png){:class="img-fluid w-75"}

Right now it seems that Honeycode is in the same realm as other --"click an app together based on a spreadsheet"-- like [Open As App](https://www.openasapp.com/) or Microsoft's [PowerApps](https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/), although both of those are much further along, and offer more features.

So while Honeycode is still beta, it will be interesting to see how it evolves.