Users need their experiences to be unique, intriguing and engaging. They need the content to be easily available and accessible in all the available formats, real time as well as mobile. Many new programming languages like Hello Vue JS! are being introduced to facilitate improved user experience. There is increase in number of frameworks available. Extensions and real time web apps are increasing in popularity. In the field of Web Development, the only thing constant is “Change”. Web development is changing all the time. It is important to stay in touch with these changes and make the best use of latest resources available. It helps to know about latest trends and start incorporating them at the earliest in your work in order to avoid becoming obsolete due to inability to apply latest updates.
Top Trends of Web Development
Web development is taking place in a fast manner and there are new updates in every few months. These updates help in improving user experiences and decrease errors.
Few important noteworthy trends include…
1. Progressive Web Apps
These web applications started development process in 2015. It has taken two years to develop these applications into latest trend. These are the web applications which resemble mobile applications on the basis of how they feel and according to user experience. These work reliably and increase user engagement. They provide many advantages like offline work ability, easy loading and these are able to receive push notifications. Much of the data is stored in cache form which helps in quick loading of web page and decrease frustrating wait time for the user.
2. Motion User Interface, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence
Motion user interface, bots and conversational interface are few development trends which are becoming popular. Motion UI works through flexible CSS. These features can help in improving online support and provide 24-hr customer service to users. Chatbots are computer programs which can have online conversation and provide answer to common questions and help with search features or online transactions. In recent future, it will become a common feature and every website will be expected to have one. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping amateurs in making creative websites by using program named Molly. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and Wikipedia have already started using AI.
3. Vue JS
It is a lightweight framework which was created in 2014 and is getting popular. It is independent unlike other frameworks like React or Angular. React has a major company Facebook and Angular has Google but Vue JS does not has such similar background. It was developed by Evan You. He explained about it in his blogs as an open source project. It is being used by many big companies and becoming more popular.
4. Functional Programming
It describes the whole process of constructing software on the basis of fundamental principles. In it, software is built by composition of pure functions. Things being avoided in functional programming include shared state, mutable data and side effects. Functional code is simpler to work with and makes it better to work on a program by decomposing it into small functions. Recent improvements in Javascript help in functional programming which include arrow functions, object/ array spread and async/ await.
5. Extensions
These are becoming more compatible. These are basically bits of code which improve web browser functions and can change content or appearance of websites.
6. Real-time Web Apps
These are based on websockets. These apps help in fast interactions as they facilitate instant information transfer. In these type of apps, connection between user and server is left open and server sends in all the new information the moment it is available thereby decreasing their manual effort of finding out about recent developments.
7. Mobile Web Development
For better user experience, web content needs to be easily searched by one hand. For this, it is important that navigation is streamlined to allow the thumb to do the required work.
8. Material Design
It is an attempt at combining visual material with the motion. It was first developed by Google. It works on Materialize CSS framework and contains Materialize and Sass. It helps in improving user experience and can be used with many browsers.
9. JavaScript
It is most popular among web developers and it helps to learn this language in order to be successful as web developer.
10. Static Site Generators
Hugo is an open source static site generator. These can help in creating websites. These generators help in decreasing loading time of the website and improving security.
11. Ruby on Rails 5
It has many features like Turbolinks 5 and ActionCable which make it appealing to web developers.
12. Internet of things
The household appliances can be controlled by internet through apps on the smartphones. Few examples include turning heat on, light timers or timing kettle settings to get warm tea or coffee, everything done remotely through apps.
13. Angular JS
New updates keep on coming which help web developers with creating websites with videos and animation.
Discussion
Web development tools are constantly improving. New trends in web development keep on coming and it becomes important for web developers to learn and implement these trends in order to ensure satisfying user experience. These developments are making it easier to work and communicate in real time, wherever we are. The improvements in framework and mobile development designs help in meeting or exceeding user expectations. So, it is very important to know about the recent developmental trends. This can help in getting comfortable with these updates and increase overall productivity.