What is Web Development

Intro

The creation and maintenance of websites on the internet using a variety of coding languages is known as web development. It primarily involves working with coding and writing markup for smooth functioning instead of focusing on the design of the websites.

The work that a web developer does is behind the scenes to make sure that the user experience is flawless. It is a well-paying and great career option as web developers are in high demand all across the world.

Languages:

Web developers use a diverse range of coding languages to do their work.

HTML or Hypertext Markup Language is the core upon which everything is built. Using markup language is only used to create the front end of websites like the page layout, format, and primary components. HTML only cannot be used to build a complete website as you will need CSS and JavaScript to add further functionality to the website.

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are used to make the websites more visually pleasing. It makes the process easy for then web developers to apply changes across the whole website, they only need to do a little bit of editing in CSS

JavaScript is a programming language that is used to design the part of the website that the user interacts with and its job is to make sure that the user has a smooth experience when they visit the website: the dropdown menus drop when the user wants, animations are smooth, etc.

Bootstrap, a CSS framework is used to make responsive websites and make sure that the layout of the websites is uniform across all the platforms and browsers for example desktop, mobile, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.

Categories of Web Developers:

Front-end web developers:

Whatever the user sees and interacts with, is the result of the work done by a front-end developer. A front-end developer uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to take an idea from the drawing board and turn all the visual aspects like the layout, design, interactivity, drop-down menus, and all the text to be seen on the website into reality. All this work is done on a browser.

Front-End Frameworks and Libraries:

1) AngularJS

2) React.js

3) VueJS

4) jQuery

5) Bootstrap

6) Material UI

7) Tailwind CSS

8) jQuery UI

Back-End Web Developers:

The back-end of a website is the server side where all the data of the website is stored, the very data, without which there would be no website as the front-end cannot exist without the back-end. The server that hosts the website, an application to run it and a database to store all the data are all that the back-end consists of.

The work of a back-end developer isn’t seen by the user. You can say that, in a way, back-end web developers are the unsung heroes of web development as they are the ones who make sure that behind the scenes, everything on the website’s server runs smoothly and, in turn, the front end runs smoothly.

Back End Frameworks:

1) Express

2) Django

3) Rails

4) Laravel

5) Spring