5 Featured Web Development Frameworks in 2022
This blog prunes top 5 web frameworks (frontend + backend) that will be popularly adopted across applications in the upcoming year!
Frameworks underline every simple or complex web development project. A web app is twofold with — the front end (client side), and the backend (server side). Therefore, there is a need to discern both client-side and server-side frameworks for web development. Frameworks save coding effort, and time, and only show the necessary details. It removes redundancy and unnecessary complications. These have templating capabilities, libraries, browser access, session management, libraries for database access, and code reuse capabilities.
What is a web development framework?
A framework is a programming language derivative that speeds up development. It comprises libraries, APIs, and web services and is a standard way to create web applications. Frameworks provide a common structure so that web developers do not have to do it from scratch. Frameworks have libraries for database access, templates, and session management — that can be called in the application to avoid redundancy.
What are web frameworks used for?
They set the control flow of the program, define authentication, manage sessions, cache documents, access database, map database, configure the database, and map URLs. Built-in functions of Web Frameworks include automating processes, writing codes, simplifying programming languages, etc.
Which website technologies/trends will feature in 2022?
We saw an upsurge in the usage of mobile phones during the pandemic, simultaneously website users also picked up amassing the latest frameworks in web development like Next.js, React Remix, Laravel, Vue, Angular, and Ruby on Rails, React.js, jQuery, Express, Angular, Vue.js, ASP.NET Core, and Flask.
This year will surface Web frameworks working in conjunction with (1) Web assembly, (2) Blockchain technology, (3) Automation, (4) Minimalism, (5) User research, (6) Web Frameworks, (7) Responsive websites, (8) Headless UI libraries, (9) Progressive Web Apps (PWA), (10) Voice search optimization.
List of Top Web Development Frameworks 2022 (In No Particular Order)
Let’s consider both frontend and backend here:
Laravel (Backend)
Language: PHP
Source Link: https://laravel.com/
Laravel Github Link: https://github.com/laravel/laravel
Current Version: Version 9
Laravel has pre-built features to simplify programming. It is based on an object-oriented approach. Based on MVC, it brings in the best of many web frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails. It is secure, scalable, and can be utilized with very little coding. It supports many databases like SQLite, PostgreSQL, Microsoft BI, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB.
Laravel features 9000+ packages and has extensive compilers for package distribution and management. It simplifies the authorization logic and controls access to resources. It supports object-oriented libraries that come with many pre-installed features. Laravel comes with tools like artisan that help simplify programming tasks which have to be otherwise manually performed. Laravel also features exceptional error handling.
Vue (Frontend)
Language: JavaScript
Source Link: https://vuejs.org/
Vue Github Link: https://github.com/vuejs/vue
Latest Stable Version: 3.2.33
Vue is amongst the top Javascript frameworks that have held its position high and have achieved top position by Statista, CAGR, TSH.io, and Stack Overflow. It is easy to use which makes it preferable for creating user interfaces of web applications. While Google, Facebook, and Amazon does not trust Vue.js, BuzzFeed, Grammarly, Nintendo, and Trustpilot deeply trust it.
It is the most suitable framework for single-page application development, features two-way binding, progressive design, ease of integration, excellent documentation, and a huge community.
Angular (Frontend)
Language: JavaScript
Source Link: https://angular.io/
Angular GitHub Link: https://github.com/angular/angular
Latest Version: 14.0.4
AngularJS follows Microfrontend architecture + MVC architecture. It closely loops in low toolchain libraries, is written in JavaScript, has a steep learning curve, bi-directional binding, and follows document object model, and client-side rendering. Suitable for building large web applications, it is easier to maintain and has a large community. It is therefore being used by companies like Upwork, Netflix, PayPal, and Lego.
React (Frontend)
Language: Java Script
Source Link: https://reactjs.org/
GitHub Link: https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org
Latest Version: 18.0.0
React is the favourite framework for web development for companies like Facebook, Facebook Ads, Airbnb, Instagram, Walmart, GLITCH, Skype, Tesla, Uber Eats, Discovery VR, Wix, Bloomberg, Myntra, Soundcloud Pulse, WalkSafe, Shine, Pinterest, Adidas, Huiseoul. React features JSX, Virtual DOM, one-way data binding, performance, simplicity, components, documentation, and resources making more sense with the emergence and need to have a single code for multiple platforms, and cost-effectiveness.
It combines with Javascript to create multi-platform reusable user interface components that act as a bridge between iOS and Android applications. React is easy to set up and is a stable framework with fewer version upgrades. React renders fast, reduced costs, server-side rendering via native APIs, can reuse components with component-based architecture, declarative coding supports third-party plugins, and open-source community. The component-based structure allows developers to build apps with a more agile approach than most hybrid frameworks.
Ruby On Rails (Backend)
Language: Ruby
Source Link: https://rubyonrails.org/
Rails GitHub Link: https://github.com/rails/rails
Latest Version: 7.0.2.4
Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework based on the Ruby programming language. It is a popular backend framework that is being used by Github, Airbnb, Hulu, Shopify etc. Rails has a steep learning curve, a wide library of resources, and a vibrant community. It is open-source, secure, reliable, and scalable.
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We tried justifying 5 top frameworks (frontend and backend) in this excerpt, but many similar options are available — Ember.js, Backbone.js, Svelte, Preact, LitElement, jQuery, Semantic UI, Foundation ASP.NET Core, and many more.
You need to understand the framework architecture classification while determining which framework to use. They can be one or more of these — Model View Controller, Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), Push-based & Pull-based, or Three-tier organization.
Once we have deciphered major frontend and backend frameworks that web development companies utilize in their websites/web apps, we need to understand why it is pertinent for modern app development. It makes for easy debugging and maintenance, reduces code length, improves security, bootstraps the development process, improves code efficiency and reusability, are easy to modify and performs easy bootstrapping. Hope you had a good read, come again!
Originally published at https://www.itsmypost.com on July 29, 2022.
