Web technology industry is moving
very fast and is a tough job for both developers and businesses to come on
track. It can be regarded as both a good
and a bad thing to the web developers. A good web developer must be always
up-to-date with the new techniques or programming languages. To meet business
requirements adapting existing frameworks, testing a website , or optimizing
and scaling a website to better perform with the back-end infrastructure are
some of the features of a good web development tool.
We may have to change the
technologies according to the fast changes in nature of web. There are so many
newly forming platforms for HTML5, CSS3, and JS that comes with the new
generation of web technology. This constant change is very difficult for new
developers to find a stable platform to build a site from. Listed are five
platforms that have proven themselves as great web development tools. To speed
up and refine your development practices,these tools give a big hand.
HTML5
Boilerplate
HTML5 Boilerplate is a front-end
template based on HTML5. it’s a template, not a framework. It include HTML,
CSS, .htaccess (Apache web server configuration), Crossdomain.xml, some
Miscellaneous (ignore file, gitignore and so on).One of its feature is it has
no JS. The project was launched by a team of developers and is now supported
and developed by a large community on GitHub. It’s an open source system which
is the result of the work of hundreds of developers. Actually it is a single
hyper refined system that is fast, easy to use, and easy to understand. It is
mainly used with UI based frameworks. So that it is a great tool for new
projects.
Boilerplate is filled with features
such as:
- It is a HTML ready template. That means it uses all of HTML5’s new elements.
- It’s designed with progressive enhancement
It includes:
- Normalize.css for CSS normalizations and common bug fixes
- JS extensions like JQuery and Modernizer are included out of the box using Google CDNs, with local file fallbacks
- Optimizing server configurations is done easier using Apache Server Configs .It helps to improve a website’s performance and security
- Placeholder CSS Media Queries
- Useful CSS helper classes
- Default print styles
- Performance optimized
- Optimized for Google analytics
- “Delete-key friendly”—it’s easy to strip out parts you don’t need
- Extensive inline and accompanying documentation
Twitter’s
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is an open source HTML,
CSS and JavaScript framework that is used in front-end web
development built by the developers at Twitter. It focuses on UI/UX and
rapid development. A large parts of the CSS/JS development phase of a site is
automated by using this framework.
Bootstrap is mainly used to create
mobile-first, responsive websites quickly and easily. Responsive website means
to scales the website to the size of the view-port of the device a person is
using . Mobile -first means that the website design is primarily intended for
the mobile devices and then built up to suit the larger view-port devices.
The Mobile internet on the go has
been increasing exponentially over the years and will continue to do so. And in
phones and tablets, while viewing websites, the user has to zoom in and out to
get a proper view and in turn it will lead to a poor user experience. So the
websites must adapt itself to the particular device we use. It must be viewed
in both landscape and portrait mode. Bootstrap is a great tool which helps to
rectify such technical glitches.
Bootstrap consists of components that
you can use to build the websites. These components have default styles. By
using Bootstrap’s contextual and utility classes (or by using custom CSS that
you can include in your markup) these styles can be altered. This also has
JavaScript components .It uses jQuery plugins for components like tooltip and
popovers. An cool character of Bootstrap is that if you don’t want to use
JavaScript or jQuery in your project you just don’t need to include it.
Features:
- Responsive mobile design out of the box
- It has a powerful base CSS files & UI, including multi colored buttons, forms, notifications, and much more – all comes in CSS3/HTML5
- Out of the box JavaScript UI Framework.
- All elements controlled through markup so you don’t have to touch the CSS/JS files
Underscore
JS
Underscore.js is a JavaScript library
that extends common functionality of JavaScript. It is basically a JavaScript
toolkit. Underscore describes themselves as the “Tie to JQuery’s
Suit”.Underscore adds a large amount of functionality to vanilla JavaScript,
and in doing so, automates functionality that would generally take many hours.
Some core features that underscore
offers are:
- It has a full JS template system – for dynamic data pulled from an API this comes handy.
- Advanced string functions, search functions, and JSON parsing
- Expanded JS functions including indexOf, filter, foreach, and many more
Cake
PHP
CakePHP is one of the most popular
among the various frameworks of PHP. It is a clean MVC framework and templating system that allows you to
deploy and build your dynamic websites fast and efficiently. The two powerful
features of CakePHP is - its built in Database Handler and PHP security
features. It also include a localization framework, XSS/SQL Injection
safeguards.
Cakephp has following features:-
- Strict naming conventions
- Better validation
- Have authentication in its core
- Supports ORM
- Bake tool for creating models, views and controllers
- Validation occurs in model i.e. before and during saving etc.
- XML-RPC is used as web service
- Looks similar to ruby on rails
Initializr
Initialize is a really cool tool that
automates the initial steps of a project for web developers. It is actually a
web app. Initializes web app uses Boilerplate and Bootstrap technologies
together and can form a template you can use for your website. This is an
innovative idea and amazing app.
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