Introduction To Web Development & Technology

An Introduction To Web Development:

Web developers create and maintain websites. They are also responsible for the site’s technical aspects, such as its performance and capacity, which are measures of a website’s speed and how much traffic the site can handle. In addition, web developers may create content for the site.

Web development is the building and maintenance of websites; it’s the work that happens behind the scenes to make a website look great, work fast and perform well with a seamless user experience. Web developers, or ‘devs’, do this by using a variety of coding languages.

Types of Web Development:

• Front-End Web Development
• Back-End Web Development
• Full-stack Web Development

Languages Required For Web Development:

Front and back end developers work on different sides of a website. Front end development is programming which focuses on the visual elements of a website or app that a user will interact with (the client side). Meanwhile, back end development focuses on the side of a website users can’t see (the server side).

For Front-End Development

HTML provides the basic structure of sites, which is enhanced and modified by other technologies like CSS and JavaScript. CSS is used to control presentation, formatting, and layout. JavaScript is used to control the behavior of different elements.

HTML

HTML is the language for describing the structure of Web pages. HTML gives authors the means to: Publish online documents with headings, text, tables, lists, photos, etc. Retrieve online information via hypertext links, at the click of a button.

CSS

CSS makes the front-end of a website shine and it creates a great user experience. Without CSS, websites would be less pleasing to the eye and likely much harder to navigate. In addition to layout and format, CSS is responsible for font color and more.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images, and pretty much everything else.

For Back-End Development

The back end refers to parts of a computer application or a program’s code that allow it to operate and that cannot be accessed by a user. Most data and operating syntax are stored and accessed in the back end of a computer system. Typically the code is comprised of one or more programming languages.

PHP

PHP is a convenient backend programming language that is very flexible and has immaculate features. This is why PHP is considered to be the future of backend development in 2021.

Python

Python undoubtedly tops the list. It is commonly thought of as the best programming language to learn first because it is very approachable. It is a fast, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy programming language that is widely used to develop scalable web applications.

SQL

SQL is used to communicate with a database. According to ANSI (American National Standards Institute), it is the standard language for relational database management systems. SQL statements are used to perform tasks such as update data on a database, or retrieve data from a database.

JavaScript

it can be used for both frontend and backend development, JavaScript is a popular programming language. Based on many historical patterns and statistics, it can be concluded that the popularity of Node. js has boosted the use of JavaScript as a backend language for web development.

XML

JSON and XML are the two de facto standards for sending and receiving data in REST APIs. Web programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, and Java all have tools for parsing and working with XML and JSON.

Node JS

If you are looking for real-time web apps, then Node. js might be the best choice for Back-end development as it has all the above features which is very great in delivering excellent performance. It is built on a single-threaded, non-blocking event loop, Google V8 engine and low-level API.