TipoIT - Web Development | Web Design | Design Patterns

PHP

LAMP web stack is a de-facto most popular web application toolbox because of it's relatively simple learning curve and the ease of use for web developers. With the evolution of new frameworks like Laravel and Symfony, it can quickly become your weapon of choice for enterprise web development also. PHP ecosystem has its limitations but for standard web applications ( provided you don't use WordPress ) it is a very good choice. PHP is not a wide purpose tool though, and it can be used mainly to build web pages and standard web applications.

C#

C# ( C-Sharp ) is one of the old school, powerful server-side, compiled programming languages that was created by Microsoft, and that can be used for pretty much any type of project but with the birth of ASP.NET framework, it became a wonderful tool for developing web applications and websites. Developers can use ASP.NET to develop web applications, e-commerce platforms, web services, API-s, and dynamic content websites.

Java

Java is a powerful, compiled, general purpose programming language and Spring MVC and Spring Boot are the thing to use if you plan on creating large and complex web projects or API-s that are intended to be scalable and deal with really large and massive, corporate size traffic. These tools take web development craft to another level. With new development practices and stuff like microservice architecture, there is no need to reinvent the wheel with Spring framework and Java web development.

Python

Python is a well established server-side programming language that can be used to build web applications, with or without frameworks. Some of the frameworks like Django or Flask can perform amazing in the world wide web world. Python developers can also write their web applications using a combination of Python and JavaScript and that enables them to write full-stack high performance web applications. Python is also known for having a really simple and smooth syntax, and yet it is a high performance language, and this can make it a really good choice to be the first programming language for beginners in web development.

JavaScript

With the emergence of technologies like TypeScript and Node.js, JavaScript programming became a whole new ball game. TypeScript with its static types and generics is a beautiful way to write clear and concise JavaScript code with care. TSC compiler makes it easy to debug your app during development and it can actually feel enjoyable to write JavaScript code. TypeScript provides types and strong typing that allows you to keep everything where it should be and prevents things from getting assigned in a wrong way. Angular and TypeScript can be unbeatable when used together. It is also important to mention React and JSX. JSX is a syntax extension to JavaScript that React uses to create UI elements. For smaller projects jQuery will be sufficient for your front-end development. I'm also not going to skip mentioning Vue.js as a weapon of choice in the front-end segment of web development.

Containers

Containers are applications that serve as an additional property of existing operating system that you are working on while developing your app. They are similar to virtual machines but can be more lightweight and more efficient. A container has its own filesystem, CPU resources, memory allocation and much more. Containers are portable across cloud and OS distributions so they are a perfect choice for developing large projects that involve a lot of people. If you are still unfamiliar with solutions like Docker or Kubernetes you will soon find out about these if you stick around in web development long enough.

Hosting services

AWS, VPS, dedicated servers, are not just buzzwords. There are a lot of specialized hosting solutions out there for your web content. But choosing the right one can take some time.