While browsing through a website with an extremely easy user interface (UI), our mind inadvertently goes back to the times when just loading a web page was an enduring task. Moving from the mouse-driven computers to smartphones and tablets, web pages have adapted themselves seamlessly over the years. The year 2015 and beyond will witness some benchmark transformations in front-end technologies. Internet users will traverse this wave of change, enjoying speedier and more appealing web pages. Moving along this technological wave, we are hooked on providing the best web solutions today. Based on our expertise, here is an in-depth view of the current and future trends in front-end development. The User’s Perspective Front-end development is the face of the application. As users, we want web pages to be friendly and appealing. Here are some aspects of front-end technologies which users are most interested in: Compatibility: The ability to adapt to different internet browsers. Usability: This attribute signifies the easy-to-use aspect of the website. Complexity: This specifies the back-end of the web application, which controls the speed and security of the data. Whatever the style and time may be, engaging these aspects remains unchanged. Recent Trends in Web Development Web technologies have taken a major leap with the changing requirements. The applications that go well on a laptop screen are now also compatible with mobile phones. There are some important parameters that have implemented these changes, so let’s take a look of these: Responsive Web Design For any website, the response of users is the most imperative factor. A responsive web design (RWD) allows users to browse the website from...
While building a multifaceted and interactive web application, architects and developers are usually met with the challenge of performance, maintainability and modularity and are in constant need of a set of frameworks that can act like a backbone to their project and help them knock-out all the glitches in the process. JavaScript, a programming language that was designed to give easy access to pre-built components that serve as building blocks for a webpage, thus entered the field. Gone are the days when web development was all about uploading static HTML, CSS and JavaScript files to an HTTP server. Modern web applications are much larger and more complex than earlier and require a framework of language that provides structure, quality and maintainability all at the same time. JavaScript frameworks were created to address the need of building a stable foundation for a web application. What are JavaScript Frameworks? JavaScript frameworks are libraries of pre-written JavaScript that allow easier development of JS-based applications by providing a layer of abstraction on top of the core language. These frameworks provide a multitude of functions and help make it easier and more achievable for developers to create responsive, fluid and maintainable interfaces for web apps. JavaScript frameworks are open-sourced, released under the permissive MIT license and aim to resolve the problem of single page web apps using an MVC or MV* design pattern. Top JavaScript Frameworks There has been a great surge in MV* frameworks over the past few years and the list of new and stable frameworks continues to grow each year. Developers usually find themselves lost in choice as to which framework...
The rising popularity of HTML5 has acted as a catalyst for the increased use of JavaScript frameworks for developing rich client applications. These frameworks allow developers to incorporate enterprise complexity in client-side applications. This is perhaps the reason why server side frameworks have become a thing of the past and applications, like AngularJS, Ember and BackBone, in addition to several others, are being used. Although, this blog is not focused towards deriving comparisons between the different frameworks, here are a few ways by which AngularJS is better than the rest – Efficient Code Good documentation Impeccable developer community Google backed Small footprint Data-Binding is simple The key features of Angular JS are discussed in the sections that follow. Scope Scope is used for detecting changes in model objects. Besides, it is also used for creating expressions’ execution contexts. It performs marshalling of the model to a view and events are forwarded to the controller. Controller In order to create a model and connect it to a view, a controller is required. Therefore, the interface between the controller and the view is scope. Typically, an application is effective and efficient if the controllers are thin and services are rich. The controller in AngularJS supports inheritance and nesting. The major difference between controller of AngularJS and other frameworks is that, in this case, DOM manipulations are not supported. Model The model in AngularJS can simply be described as a JavaScript object. There is no need for you to create structures or make extensions. This allows the framework to support the functionality of nested models. View The view, in this case, is...
