If you have 15 apps in your development pipeline, that’s 15 new apps you have to start from scratch. But business users are under pressure to cover more market share. Back office users are being asked to process internal and external transactions faster. They simply cannot wait that long for their app requirements to be done.
Canada-based biotechnology company STEMCELL Technologies had the same experience as most companies did when it comes to application development. Development was slow, maintaining applications by different developers was taking up a lot of bandwidth, and there was little room for innovation. In their mission to help scientists around the world through cell culture media and cell separation technologies, they found that they needed to be quicker on their feet and be more adaptable to the fast-paced nature of the industry.
If you are to lead in your industry, you need to spend less time coding, recoding, and maintaining — and more time bringing new ideas to life. This is where Code Reusability comes in.
Why reuse code
Most apps would have common components: logins, integrations, maps, calendars, and more. When you reuse code, even if your developer is creating a new app, they can take building blocks from an app created by a colleague for another app. Assuming that the colleague developed a robust and secure component, this cuts down the development time of any app that will use that same module. Multiply that time by the number of modules available for reuse. When you reuse code, you open up your team for more possibilities:- Your apps will naturally follow a standard, having their basic components uniform, which means consistently good quality across apps, regardless of who developed them.
- When you need to fix or update a component, you only need to do it once and all apps using that module will inherit the changes. Maintaining dozens of apps will be organized and a breeze.
- You don’t need an army of developers working on the same app. With most of the components just waiting to be called, 1 or 2 developers can focus on designing and customizing features that will finally bring the innovation you need to make an impactful app.
