Deciding on the Technology stack is essential when it comes to developing a Top notch web application. Small businesses and startups have a difficult time in determining the appropriate tech stack with their limited budgets. A technology stack is the most bang for the buck for both small businesses and startups to get the projects off the ground. Choosing the right stack is the key to any project success.
The technology stack mentioned here is modern variants of open source to enable lean and agile development.
A technology stack for web application development has two sides:
- Client-side: – This side of web application development is the front end that the user will see on their screens. The principal front end web application development stack components are:
HTML along with CSS and JavaScript.
- Server side programming: – This side of web application development isn’t visible to the user, but it powers the client side. The challenge is to decide to choose the server side technologies for developing your web application. Programming languages form the logic of websites and applications. To simplify these programming languages, multiple framework tools are used for faster coding.
Here are some of the most popular programming language framework:
• ASP.NET
ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework developed by Microsoft for programmers to design dynamic web pages. ASP.NET allows the user to use full-featured programming languages such as C# or VB.NET. ASP.NET has three frameworks for developing web applications. All the frameworks are mature and stable to create great web applications. Each of these three different framework targets different audience and type of application. Selection of the right framework depends upon the combination of your web experience, comfort and best fit for the types of application.
• Sencha Touch:
Sencha touch web framework is a user interface JavaScript library intentionally built for the Mobile Web. Sencha toolkit is extensive to develop the touch-based application. Developers use this Sencha for building interface of mobile web applications that look and feel are similar to native apps. Sencha SDK’s are HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript which makes it easier for developers to create user interfaces and animations. Sencha Ext JS is great for desktop apps that work in major browsers.
• Node.js:
Node.js is an open-source server environment running on various platforms of Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X and more using JavaScript on the server. Node.js can generate dynamic page content and also can add, delete, modify data in your database. It lets the developers write command line tools for server-side scripting to produce dynamic webpage content before the page is sent to the user’s browser. Its represents Javascript everywhere unifying web application development in a single programming language for server side and client side script.
Then there are others like:
• Ruby (Ruby on Rails)
• Python (Django, Flask, Pylons)
• PHP (Laravel)
• Java (Spring)
• Scala (Play)
Now that we have some understanding about web technology stack, here are some standard practices that you should avoid:
• Never choose on competitor’s experience.
• No personal preferences.
• Decision-based on past projects.
• Decisions based on online research.
Selecting the right tech sack is a real challenge to choose the technologies according to your project. Never rely upon the time-proven technologies used by large and successful companies in prominent projects. Be realistic in choices to think about the pros and cons into account as a single wrong choice of technology nay end in financial losses. The right team of web developers will be able to assist in choosing the right tool for delivering the top notch web application with all the functionality needs.