Technology and evolution go hand-in-hand. We are living in a world where technology has made our lives better than before. Change is inevitable especially for developers who have to keep themselves updated on the latest technological trends and hone their skills accordingly to survive in the software industry. In a highly competitive market where web designing and development keeps on growing at a rapid rate, it becomes crucial for web developers to adapt to the latest web technology trends to achieve desired goals. After all, web development isn’t an easy pill to swallow.
Here are 7 web technology trends every developer must get acquainted with. Without these technologies, no matter what you do, web designing won’t be effective. By leveraging these web technologies, you can design and develop a website that not only looks appealing but stand out from the rest.
- HTML and CSS
HTML and CSS are the web technologies used by web developers to build web pages. These are the fundamental framework on which websites are built and manipulated by developers to get the desired look and feel of the website. HTML is a markup language that provides you the structure of the website whereas CSS (cascading style sheets) is used for blending style and layout on the website. With CSS, you can also minimize bulky coding on each page of the website so that it runs fast and smooth. To level up your front-end design process, you can focus on Bulma and Tailwinds CSS framework as they come with tons of layout ideas and pre-defined components.
- Programming Languages
The idea of programming languages came into existence as computers cannot understand our human language. Web developers are left with hundreds of computer programming languages to choose from. It’s not mandatory to learn them all. However, there are old languages that never go out of trend such as JAVA, C and C#. Mastering a few languages is sufficient for any web developer.
The leading programming languages you can focus in 2020 are Python, PHP and Swift that have new tools and features to help you be more productive. Python is used by the Django framework to create web applications. PHP is used by WordPress for making interacting web pages. And Swift is the newest programming language for Apple products. Google’s Golang also continues to pick up the fast pace in the race. However, presently you should focus on the aforesaid programming languages to obtain great results.
- Website Framework
Website framework plays an important role in a developer’s life. They give an edge to the web developer, a starting block to minimize coding efforts required to build a website. Talk about the web technologies that will most likely rule 2020 and we have promising PHP frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, YII and Cake that come with handy features that reduce your workload. Laravel provides object-oriented libraries, artisan, MVC support, authorization technique and database migration among others. CodeIgniter includes libraries, simple interface and logical structure to access libraries, plug-ins, and other resources to maintain high performance without relying much on other components.
YII (Yes it is!) is a fast, easy and efficient framework built in PHP5 that comes with great tools for debugging and app testing. Cake is called the workhorse of PHP framework and all for good reasons. The framework is faster, requires less code, offers flexible database access layer, MVC controller, data mapping etc to develop robust web applications.
- Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites with the help of HTML/CSS/JavaScript. The technology might look daunting at first but, it’s worth checking out as it is favored by most web developers these days for building website and web-based app. Bootstrap 4 is the latest version of Bootstrap framework that can be downloaded for free. Bootstrap takes less effort than other frameworks when we talk about building responsive websites. It is certainly a trend every developer must keep their eyes on.
- Javascipt
JavaScript has been around in the industry for ages and is still one of the most-used computer programming languages in the world. The scripting language is used by developers to enhance design and functionality in website design and development. In 2020, you should check out for JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS and Node JS that are dominating web development world.
Gatsby JS is fairly a new player in the market which is catching the eyes of web developers all over the world. Angular JS is the latest web development technology for developing dynamic websites and front-end based applications without using plugins or other frameworks. Node JS is perfect for developers who want to save time on developing apps and APIs.
- WordPress
WordPress is one of the most powerful platforms in the world through which developers can customize websites without going crazy over coding. It is by far the most-used content management system (CMS) in the world with more than 80 million websites based on it. In WordPress, developers can choose from thousands of templates, themes and plugins to create versatile websites thereby reducing development costs and deployment time. WordPress is not only limited to business website development but can be used for blogs, resumes, portfolios, social networks, membership sites, forums, and pretty much anything you can think of. Using this CMS is not only sensible but fun too as you can play around with tools to create a website that makes anyone fall in love with it.
- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
AMP is a web development technology whose importance has grown over the past few years. Accelerated mobile pages are optimized pages of the website that operates fast and include simple designs with basic features when compared to fully-developed ones. These pages are extremely mobile-friendly and offer the users ease of readability of content present on it. New trends in this technology shows that businesses are now shifting their attention to mobile-friendliness of their website as statistics show that more than half of the traffic on any website comes from mobile users. AMP plugins additionally lower down the cost on UX/UI and reach users no matter how slow their internet speed is.
