The pace at which the web application development industry is growing is hard to match. A developer and a product owner must continually update and bring in new changes and fresh innovations to compete.
Many business owners owe their success to the online space they utilized to enhance their business spectrum. To be honest, if we rewind to ten years, it would have been almost impossible even to imagine that we would be able to create powerful applications in the browser- the ones we see in 2020, apps like Netflix, Airbnb, Facebook, and Spotify.
As the demand to provide better web app development services is increasing day by day and is becoming more complicated, web developers need better and more versatile tools to match with the rising expectations.
Fortunately, we have many options to choose from, thanks to the established and community members. They are continually racing to create better frameworks, libraries, and tools to make this task a lot easier than it could’ve been.
As the expectation of web application development has evolved over time, so has the expectations of a developer. A developer has to be the “jack of all trades” and regularly collaborate within different product teams and incorporate new and new technologies from time to time.
What helps the developer make their way?
It has a lot to do with the web app development frameworks that are an integral part of the developer’s toolbox.
What are Web Application Frameworks?
Web application frameworks are libraries designed to help you build web applications, APIs, and web resources.
Choosing the right framework for your project is a significant decision that must be well calculated and analyzed.
This is because, with the time your project may become more complex and complicated, at that time, switching to a different framework may cost you a fortune, and time.
What are the choices?
Below we have listed some incredible web app development frameworks (Front-end and back-end) you can choose from and use in your next project.
Note: Before you decide to go for one option, make sure you do your research too.
- Django:
Django is a python framework. It is considered to be a high-level framework used in promoting rapid development and well organized, practical design solutions.
It is recognized as one of the most secure web frameworks since it can very well react to the new vulnerabilities in the quickest possible way.
The community of Django is a part of the broader community of Python. The community actively contributes to providing various useful utilities and packages.
If you need proof of how many Django packages are there in the market, just search “Django” in PyPI, you will find around 4000 packages that are ready to be used.
You can learn more about Django from:
- The official Django Tutorials
- Youtube series on Django
- The Django book by Nigel George
- Ruby On Rails:
Ruby Rails is popularly mentioned among Java, Python, or Javascript- but if you do a little researching, you will find out that it’s not an independent coding language but a web development framework written on Ruby, the programming language.
Ruby is famous for the ease of maintenance and the opportunities of dev collaboration it provides to the developers.
This is the result of the core principles Rails has been built on:
- Convention over Configuration:
The convention over configuration means that the Ruby On Rails environment used by the developer by default assumes the logical situations.
This principle decreases the number of decisions a developer has to make, thus, eliminating the overall complexities.
- Don’t Repeat Yourself:
According to the pragmatic Programmer book on Ruby On Rails, the principle is defined as “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.”
Simple, this implies that duplication is waste and must be eliminated through abstraction.
The framework is a “novice-friendly” technology that helps beginners to create dynamic web apps. It also has strong community support that boosts the popularity it currently enjoys.
- ReactJS:
ReactJS is another popular JavaScript application framework enjoying strong support from developers, users, and product owners worldwide.
Facebook created the framework to support UI development; React is still maintained by the organization.
The reason contributing to ReactJS’s popularity is React Native, the platform that allows a developer to code once and use the same for creating Native UI android and iOS apps.
- MeteorJS:
The framework is free of cost and open-source isomorphic (runs on both front-end and back-end) JavaScript web framework written in NodeJS.
Meteor is one of the best frameworks for rapid prototyping, thanks to the integrated JS stack, which extends from the database and goes to the end user’s screen.
Another great thing about MeteorJS is that it allows the developer to use the same code in all kinds of applications. It doesn’t matter if you are developing a web app, or a desktop app or an Android/iOS application, the same code can be used in all of them.
With time, Meteor has lost the “popularity battle,” However, it still remains one of the best and most loved web app development frameworks in the market.
Conclusion:
There are many web development frameworks out in the market. However, these four remain to be the most popular ones.
If we observe the pattern of the web app development services over the years, we’ll notice that some incredible changes have been incorporated into the current web development frameworks. It would be ignorant to say that it stops here.
Web development has a long way to go. All we have to do is match up the pace, and we will get there.
