Good Software Practices Still Matter — Even in No-Code 🛠️

The client had made a lot of progress — but when I opened their workflow, it was clear that a few fundamentals were missing.
🔒 Credentials were stored in plain text instead of the secure credential store.
🐌 SQL queries fetched every row from the database with zero filtering.
It worked, sure — but it wasn't safe, efficient, or sustainable.

It’s easy to think that tools like n8n, Zapier, Make, etc. mean you can skip "traditional" development practices.
After all, you’re dragging and dropping, not writing code, right?
But here’s the truth: No-code still builds real software.
And real software needs real care.

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Things like:

• Securing sensitive data 🔐
• Using efficient database queries 📦
• Structuring workflows logically 🧩
• Thinking about error handling ⚙️
• Keeping things maintainable for the future 🗂️

These aren't "nice-to-haves" for programmers — they're best practices that apply to anyone building with tech, code or no-code.

No-code tools lower the barrier to entry (which is awesome! 🙌), but they don't change the fundamentals of building good systems.

If you’re just getting into no-code, my advice:
Take some time to learn basic software development principles too. It’ll save you (and your clients) a lot of headaches down the road. 💡