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by rchaud 1776 days ago
Dreamweaver is no-code, but you can't build a web application with it. Just a static website. Maybe there's some interactivity like being able to submit a "Contact Us" form. But that's it.

A web application has application logic of some kind, maybe like a retirement calculator. That kind of application will accept user input (e.g. "age", "monthly savings amount", "exp. rate of return"), and apply that data to a model of some kind. That results in an output "You need to save $X to retire at age Y, assuming ROR is Z%"

Bubble is a full no-code app-builder. There are other no-code tools like Zapier, but they're not used to build full apps, but rather to connect two different apps without writing API queries yourself. For example, let's say you're running a virtual conference. Your tickets are sold on Platform X, and your videoconferencing solution happens on Platform Y.

When someone buys a ticket using X, you want to auto-send an email from Y with their videoconference link. You do that by connecting the two services visually via Zapier.