What are the top 10 web development trends in 2017? GS WEB TECH
Top 10 web development trends in 2017
that will make you a great and highly sought after developer.
1. Responsive design
This is rather obvious so I decided to do away with it first.
According to my Google Analytics results from 5 websites I run, 30% of the traffic is from mobile devices.
If your checkout form breaks when the screen size is 200px you are losing on sales. So as a web developer in 2017 make most, if not all your web page to scale according to screen size.
2. Real time notification
This used to only be embraced by chat applications. It not the case anymore, even revenue visualization dashboards need to update in real-time.
This has been necessitated by the fact that most applications in 2017 support multiple point access, so the other party needs to know what’s currently the state of things before they make decisions.
Real time notifications might not be applicable in all the circumstances, but it does in most.
3. Modular design
Yes, the use of loosely coupled components.
There are a lot of libraries and frameworks both for the front end and back end that ensure that the components of an application are not completely tied into one another.
Development in 2017 leans towards MVC design patterns both for the front end and back end. There is no shortage of libraries and frameworks like Angular.js, React.js, Laravel, RoR, Django, Playframework.
4. Idiot proof design
Gone are the days I could continue to try logging into my Yahoo! account as long as I still couldn’t bother get the password right.
In 2017 even simple sites like Quora are well prepared to deal with an idiot who wants to abuse and game the system.
You bear me witness that pretty much every page these days has that line asking you ‘Prove you are not a robot’ with a bunch of images to identify.
This is being embraced even more in 2017.
5. Live support
Even a blog nowadays has that little form at the bottom right corner labelled “Chat with us!” even when the site is owned by a single individual - in which case it should be “Chat with me!”.
More businesses are throwing their weight behind the need for live interaction as opposed to back and forth email communication with potential customers in 2017.
The good this is that there are already a handful of companies offering this service through copy/paste so you wont have to build it ground up in most cases as a web developer - unless for some reason your client/company requires you to.
6. Single page application design
If you submit a login form today and you have to wait for another 10 seconds for the page to reload then it comes with the message, “Invalid password!” you pretty much start getting irritated, right?
Yes, because a lot of this stuff can be done when you are on the same without reloading or taking you to another page.
It just saves times and serves for a greater user experience.
7. Browser based IDEs
This is even going to be more depended upon in 2017.
This is one of the few ideas I haven’t really bought into. I am rather rigid here - I will stick to my desktop based IDE for a while.
But expect a lot of this as most questions and answers on Stackoverflow now reference code from JSFiddle among many other really full features IDEs in the cloud.
8. Browser based caching
Great web apps in 2017 involve heavy use of multimedia - images, video, audio e.t.c.
Even with the widespread use of fiber internet connections, the ability to transmit huge data packets between the web client and the server in order to yield a great user experience is still wanting.
A great number of web developers in 2017 are relying on browser based cache to reduce the load on the network and render pages faster.
Google even ranks your page higher if you are making use of the browsers local cache.
9. HTML compression
This solves a similar problem the point number 8 but I put it separate because it has not been embraced widely lately. But web developers are really keen to give it a shot in this time.
And is not just about HTML. JavaScript and CSS are also being compression but this practice has been around for close to a decade or even more.
Web developers in 2017 are really looking into what options they have with HTML compression libraries.
10. Version control
Yes, version control - Git.
I know you already know about this but I can’t go before I tell you about managing your web app through a code repository and therefore a VCS.
There are a couple of options like GitHub, BitBucket, Mercurial and Subversion - I am happy as long you use any of that.
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