Businesses need a digital platform to showcase their product & services, and a website is the best digital platform to drive business. Web development has become one of the most sought services among local businesses. That means new tools and more resources are available for the engineers to make the development process easy and fast.
Web Frameworks is one of the useful resources that help deliver a smooth, consistent and responsive website to end-users. A web development framework is a library of prewritten code that allows developers to create web applications and websites and easily deploy them on the web. There are two types of web development frameworks one is Frontend Development Frameworks, and the other is Backend Development Frameworks. Frontend involves coding the front of the page, i.e. how a web page appears in different browsers and screens and how users interact with it. Backend is the functional coding and how the frontend interacts with the database and backend business logic.
Popular Frontend Web Development Frameworks
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React
React is a widely used open-source frontend framework created by Facebook. It is known for its flexibility and high performance. The primary concept to make React was to handle code maintainability issues due to the constant addition of new features to the Facebook app. According to Vikram Seth, Co-Founder of Simpalm, a web design and development company in Chicago ” We are using react for most of the our web projects. Some of the advantages we discover using React for building user interfaces are a Faster development process, mobile responsive design, cost-effectiveness, and a huge developer community. It is the best choice for developing the website anticipating high traffic, and a stable platform is needed”.
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Angular
Angular is one of the popular frontend web development frameworks maintained by Google. It is a single framework that is based on TypeScript and JavaScript. Angular supports the two-way binding feature that allows real-time synchronization between model and view. So, if the developer changes anything in the model, it instantly shows in view and vice versa. Some of the advantages of using Angular are high performance, fast testing, low maintenance and support MVC architecture. It is the best choice for developers due to its ease of use, large community, and comprehensive documentation.
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Vuejs
Vuejs is an open-source progressive JavaScript framework. Vuejs has gained significant popularity due to its ease of use and straightforwardness. The framework is created by integrating the best features of existing frontend frameworks. It offers major benefits to developers like Virtual DOM and Component-based programming that eliminates the complexity faced using angular. Some of the advantages of using Vuejs are it is fast, lightweight, easy to learn and maintain. It also has a two-way data binding feature.
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Ember.js
Ember is a Model- View View-Model(MVVM) architecture-based frontend development framework. Ember offers two-way binding similar to Angular. You can use Ember to build a website with rich UIs that work on all digital devices. Some of the main advantages of Ember are it provides a powerful development environment, high performance, well maintained, and is widely documented. However, Ember has one disadvantage, it is hard to learn because of its conventional and rigid structure.
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Svelte
Svelte is the latest frontend open-source framework for web development. It has excellent APIs that make the framework more popular among developers. Svelte is the first compile-time framework that offers less coding. Some of the advantages of using Svelte are Excellent APIs and support, Responsive, and Intuitive coding.
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Popular Backend Web Development Frameworks
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Ruby on Rails
Ruby On Rails is one of the most popular backend frameworks for web application development. It’s free, open-source, and dynamic, perfect for making a high-speed web application. According to Rosie Allabarton, Technical Analyst “The web applications built using ruby on rails are generally ten times faster. Some of the advantages of using ruby on rails are offering localized code options, a Wide library of resources, Excellent coding tools, and a Vibrant Community. It is also known for its security and its scalability”.
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Django
Django is a reliable backend web development framework that helps in creating a robust web application. It offers tools and technology to developers for developing a secure website. It uses ‘Convention over Configuration,’ as well as the DRY pattern. The web applications that are built using Django are secure, scalable, versatile, and very fast. Some of the advantages of using Django are that the framework is easy to learn, well documented, and easy third-party integration.
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Laravel
Laravel is an open-source PHP backend framework. It is a most popular backed development framework, so there are several tools and resources available for developers. Laravel has several benefits, such as it is scalable, secure and easy to learn. Laravel works on MVC architecture. Laravel has many features, some of them are dependency injection and server-side rendering.
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Express
Express is another popular open-source backend framework that provides several features for website and mobile app development. Express functions in JavaScript, which makes the development process more manageable. It is widely used by developers. Some of the advantages of using Express are lightweight, minimal, scalable and built in caching. Additionally, Express helps to develop competent APIs.
