Web Development 101
Web development is the process of building software that lives on the web, from simple web pages to more complex web applications. There are two facets to web development: front-end and back-end development. Front-end developers build the parts of an application that a user will interact with, written in programming languages such as JavaScript and ASP.NET, while back-end developers focus more on the underlying infrastructure.
There are several tools, frameworks, and processes that web developers utilize on a daily basis. Among the most popular web development frameworks are React Native and Angular.
Mozilla’s Pyodide becomes an independent and community-driven project
Pyodide, Mozilla’s open-source project for running Python inside a web browser, has become an independent and community-driven project with a new home on GitHub. The company also announced the new 0.17 release as part of its announcement. The project aims to bring the Python runtime to the browser via WebAssembly along with NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, … continue reading
Six crucial tips for becoming a better React Native developer
React Native, a framework for building cross-platform applications, has been in the news lately for the right reasons. It is backed by a renowned team at Facebook and the whole JavaScript community. The framework aimed to reach record-breaking heights with the slogan “Learn Once, Write Everywhere.” Once Facebook made React Native open source, there were … continue reading
Angular Console introduces simpler UI for Angular CLI
A new developer tool is being introduced into the Angular ecosystem to provide a simpler UI for the Angular CLI, the command line interface for the open-source front-end web application platform. Angular Console has been under development for the last three months by Angular development consultation company Narwhal and the Angular team. It was designed … continue reading
Angular 7.0.0 released
The latest major release of the mobile and desktop framework Angular is now available. Angular 7.0.0 makes updates to the entire platform, core framework, Angular Material and CLI as well as provides new features to the toolchain and several partner launches. “Early adopters of v7 have reported that this update is faster than ever, and … continue reading
Microsoft introduces project references in TypeScript 3.0
Microsoft released version 3.0 of its JavaScript plugin TypeScript today, which brings static types, type declarations and type annotations to JavaScript users. Though the company says the update is light on “breaking” changes, TypeScript program manager, Daniel Rosenwasser highlighted the new features such as project references. According to Rosenwasser, project references were one of the … continue reading
SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: CSS Blocks from LinkedIn
When the web developers at LinkedIn were considering the site’s presence in markets with more limited bandwidth allowances, they realized every bit of data used counted. While there are plenty of factors to site performance, senior staff engineer Chris Eppstein and his team focused on streamlining CSS stylesheets, resulting in this week’s highlighted GitHub project, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Bugsnag’s Releases Dashboard, Google’s PageSpeed Insight, and an Adobe security update
Bugsnag has launched anew Releases dashboard designed to provide teams visibility into their releases. Bugsnag is an error monitoring solution for web, mobile and server apps. This new dashboard will also enable development teams to put out releases faster and more often, according to the company. It has a crash rate indicator to show the … continue reading
SD Times news digest: ComponentOne Studio for Xamarin in 2018, Intel addresses Meltdown and Spectre, Wi-Fi Alliance’s security enhancements
ComponentOne Studio for Xamarin has announced its upcoming plans for 2018. Its next release with feature improvements to existing controls. New features include a new Dashboard sample, better project templates with .NET Standard support, column reordering for FlexGrid, dragging interactions with the Gauge controls, animations and expanded zooming and panning functionality for FlexCharts. “All of … continue reading
npm finds React is leading the JavaScript web development framework pack
npm has just released the first State of JavaScript report for 2018. The series of reports will offer a complete review of JavaScript development trends and practices. “The JavaScript community is growing at a rate unprecedented in the history of programming languages, and the npm registry is growing right along with it,” said Laurie Voss, … continue reading
Versioning: A social network for Web developers
A new social network targeted specifically at Web developers and designers aims to use voting-based popularity rankings to promote and share developer-specific content. Versioning, created by Australian book and online course publisher SitePoint, began in 2014 as a daily newsletter for Web developers and designers reaching more than 10,000 subscribers in the past year, according … continue reading
