Top Web Application Development Trends

Web application development is no longer the same old school things. It is evolving every day and with each day, it is getting better. In fact, this change is an impeccable part of the modern business development process, which cannot be driven forward unless you are ready to make it unique. The changing market and the evolving needs of the consumer makes it necessary that you bring about a change to all this web application development process that you are part of.

The world of web application development has never experienced such a surge in its technologies and methodologies owing to:

The evolving trends in the world of online business:

As we have already discussed, the web application development needs to be accessed along a different frontier as the business is moving on across a different sphere dragged by the thread of growing requirements and new trends.
Your competitors are playing it high, so if you need to be in the competition, your presence on the web must be advanced and unique. If you have nothing new to offer, you are digging a grave for your business.

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The organizations that stay up-to-date and include all the latest trends while implementing their web application for the people are the only ones that will stay while the rest will fade into the dark forever.

Change is inevitable:

As every other industry, change is an inevitable part of the web application development. If you are ready to bring about visible changes, it is clearly visible that you are ready to embrace the change. This is something that paves your way to success in the ever-evolving industry of change. There are new tools, libraries and technologies, which you need to be aware of and you should ensure that these are an inseparable part of your web-based business, if you want it to succeed in the long run.

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Power changes everything:

Now you are evolving while embracing the mother of all necessities, that is, change. Therefore, when you are changing, you are launching “power” that will change the lives of your people forever. Yes, in fact, we utilize a number of web apps on a daily basis and no one can neglect that these have an unimpeachable influence on our lives. All thanks to the excellent team of web app developers and the technology that is available to make it happen.
Can we think about a day without using any of these meticulously designed, technology-driven miracles from the web?

No. People are tech savvies and it is not easy for any of us to live without these miraculously life changing web apps.
For instance, take your Facebook app. We are all part of the Facebook world and it is really difficult to stay cut off from Facebook or for a matter of fact, any of those web apps that have been influencing us all this time.

And, thanks to the web app researchers and analyzers who strategize new ideas, helping the team of web app developers to come up with newer techniques every time.

In-house team can often result in a negative or poor impact of your business owing to the following reasons:

1.Things happen at an unprecedented speed:

Users are craving for speed. They are in need of fast and instantly available solutions. But, when businesses fail to deliver these at an undisputable speed, the transition from one business to another happens.
No customer is going to wait for the business to think, research, strategize, develop and deliver great ideas, which will happen after ages.

2. Growth in third-party solutions:

If the solutions are not available at the desired time, businesses are getting these licensed by themselves, using Shadow-IT services.

These are reducing businesses’ inclination toward IT, which brings in the need for self-service. A user-driven development platform is the result of such an inclination of the businesses, which gives IT the control over data while users have the liberty to create the applications of their choice.

3. Shortage of skills:

The existing application developers have been working and developing same kind of applications for a long time now. This makes them used to the trends on which they have been working until recently. But, these can’t stop you from getting new ones developed.

There were days when we were developing apps for just one single device or single screen. However, now needs are changing. People want it developed for multiple devices and multiple screens.

So, to accommodate the shortage of skills we need newer and technical experts to take up the platform and implement magical solutions.

4. The relation between the speed of applications and HTTP/2:

Yeah, as you know, the pages that have a higher loading speed than the ones with lower or average loading speed are bound to do better than all others.

This is because people want only those apps that are faster and suffice their needs.

The speed of the application: the time it takes to load, to respond, to interact and help perform a particular action, all needs to be taken into consideration when building your applications; as these are the factors that will determine how longer people will stay on your app.

5. Applications are vulnerable to security risks

This is one of the concerns that leaves a consumer in doubt when they choose a service provider. A lot of modern day applications are vulnerable to security breaches.

Many a time, it happens that people fail to work on the security part as the other areas of the application and these results discrepancies in the application.

Once, the application is found to have loop holes, no one would want to use it again.

Be careful when you are developing an app because you are people want it free from all kinds of security concerns.

6. It should evolve every day:

You have developed a web app that has received appreciation from your people and has even posed serious threats to your competitors. But, if you stick on to the same thing without changing or revolutionizing it for better, do you think your people are going to stick around?

Your competitors would take a page from your book and develop their app further incorporating newer and fresh ideas, which will ultimately turn all heads toward them.

It is necessary to utilize the power of progressive apps to create developing, engaging and reliable applications for the entire mobile, desktop and web users alike.

So, what could be the emerging trends in the world of web app development? Let’s take a look at these:

1. Help yourself:

Owing to the growing needs of businesses, the IT department sphere is slowing down and finding it difficult to help them with all that they need.

This could be anything starting from self-service development, citizen development to low-code development. IT department might not be able to power these as and when required, so they are ultimately failing and displaying themselves as weak service providers, which might lead to a transition that is happening from the IT to business units.

Why this transition

It could be because:

• Things happen at an unprecedented speed here:
  We are craving for speed. The users are in need of fast and instantly available solutions. But, when IT departments fail to deliver these at an undisputable speed, the transition happens.
  No customer is going to wait for your IT department to think, research, strategize, develop and deliver great ideas, which will happen after ages.
• Growth in third-party solutions:
  If the solutions are not available at the desired time, businesses are getting these licensed by themselves, using Shadow-IT services.

These are reducing businesses’ inclination toward IT, which brings in the need for self-service. A user-driven development platform is the result of such an inclination of the businesses, which gives IT the control over data while users have the liberty to create the applications of their choice.

2. Shortage of skills:

The existing application developers have been working and developing same kind of applications for a long time now. This makes them used to the trends on which they have been working until recently. But, these can’t stop you from getting new ones developed.

There were days when we were developing apps for just one single device or single screen. However, now needs are changing. People want it developed for multiple devices and multiple screens.

So, to accommodate the shortage of skills we need newer and technical experts to take up the platform and implement magical solutions.

3. The relation between the speed of applications and HTTP/2:

Yeah, as you know, the pages that have a higher loading speed than the ones with lower or average loading speed are bound to do better than all others.

This is because people want only those apps that are faster and suffice their needs.

The speed of the application: the time it takes to load, to respond, to interact and help perform a particular action, all needs to be taken into consideration when building your applications; as these are the factors that will determine how longer people will stay on your app.

4. Is your application vulnerable to security risks?

Yes this is one of those questions that you need to be asking yourself often when developing your apps. A lot of modern day applications are vulnerable to security breaches.

Many a time, it happens that people fail to work on the security part as the other areas of the application and this kind of ends up creating discrepancies in the application.

Once, the application is found to have loop holes, no one would want to use it again.

Be careful when you are developing an app because you are people want it free from all kinds of security concerns.

5. It should evolve every day:

You have developed a web app that is hit amidst your people and has even posed serious threat to your competitors. But, if you stick on to the same thing without changing or revolutionizing it for better, do you think your people are going to stick around?

Your competitors would take a page from your book and develop their app further incorporating newer and fresh ideas, which will ultimately turn all heads toward them.

It is necessary to utilize the power of progressive apps to create developing, engaging and reliable applications for all the mobile, desktop and web users alike.

Now, let us take a look at some of the web application development trends that we should be implementing into our systems for better:

1.Artificial intelligence (AI)

We have been hearing the usage AI for quite some time now. But, hardly a few businesses have implemented it, while there were a huge population dependent on old school methods. It is time to revolutionize the old ideas and replace with new ones wherein AI would find a pivotal role to play. Starting from the education, health care, hospitality to the gaming industry, AI would soon be a part and parcel of our daily lives.

The industry, specifically IT, is struggling with their aim to implement automation and related processes which is driven by AI and machine intelligence. The shortage of experts and professionals is actually leading them to a dead end as they fail to design ground-breaking solutions. But, there are a number of businesses that have already benefitted from AI as it helps in a number of ways, such as identifying emotions or sorting out content that is offensive.

2. Chatbots

Just like AI, chatbots is another name that has created quite a stir since the year 2016. It has been actively around and will stay forever. The major objective of web developers is to ensure that chatbots are fortified to such an extent that they will enhance engagement and improve conversion rates. Chatbots are here to provide 24*7 customer support with their ability to guide users in the Q&A format, voice support and others.

3.Yarn Package Manager

Developers, undoubtedly, prefer this yarn package manager for the variety of features that it provides them with, including installation, update or edit, configuration and even uninstallation of codes present in your apps. The two commonly preferred managers include NPS and Bower. Apart from these, Facebook collaborated with Exponent and Google to create Yarn, which helps in sorting out concerns related to security, performance and even consistency.

4.Rails 5

It was introduced in the year 2016 and since then, it has been gaining popularity across the globe. It has evolved over time in collation with newer additions or updates, including Action Cable and Turbo links 5. Developers have been utilizing the power of Turbo links 5 by combining it with apps within Rails stack, which further helps in creating single pages – for abstracting HTML pages that do not require interference from the client-side Javascripts.

5.Laravel

Laravel is one of the most preferred option for developers when they choose PHP Frameworks for web app development. The object-oriented libraries along with the other in-built packages speeds up the web app development. These web apps are easier and secure. Developers also prefer this because of the streamline that it offers between logic and presentation. Laravel 5.5 has a huge community support, which is updated with new and streaming ideas to help the developers keep their apps updated.

6.Virtual Reality

Undoubtedly, virtual reality forms an important part of this discussion pertaining to the web app development trends in 2018.  The gaming industry is driven by the awesomeness of virtual reality and very soon, we can witness its transition over Google and Mozilla, which will bring about APIs that will take users into the virtual world that they have always dreamt of. This year, we will be witnessing the emergence of virtual reality-based apps in the real estate, travel tourism and IT industry and others as well.

7.Static websites

When we hear the term or usage ‘static websites’, we unknowingly travel back in time when there were no dynamic websites but only static ones. But, they are coming back. We can create awesome static websites using generators, such as Jekyll, which will help developers to save on loading time, make it easily deployable and increase security. Though it might lack the lustre of dynamicity, it still comes with extended functionalities. The plus point is that you need not collate these with databases, but just the text saved within files.

8.Internet of things

A connected world wherein you can create, store, share and program data to devise decisions, which will help in developing cutting-edge solutions for the developers over time. The new technologies, including two-way data communication process near field communication and ultra-low-power chips for cleaning up the environment will transform the way we interact with computable components.

9.Progressive web apps

Progressive web apps (PWAs) introduced in the year 2015 are still continuing as a trend and will stay for long. They are similar to the native mobile apps when it comes to the features and functionalities they offer. PWAs can be considered as websites or web pages that enlist a number of aspects across web browsers. Some of the advantages of using PWAs include fast loading, reliability, offline availability and ability to receive push notifications.

The wonderful user experience is another aspect of PWAs that is driving people to using this in their development process.

10.Motion UI

The user interface (UI) of a website is one of the major concerns of any web developer. Many a time, it happens that though the design of a website might be appealing, it might still fail to attract people in terms of functionality, while failing to provide information that users need. This functionality will further allow people to customize options to add a lot of color and life to their projects.

So, what do you think is missing in your web app development process, which is preventing it from creating history?

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