Front End Development - An Introduction

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Front End Development - An Introduction

Front end development is one of the two legs of the web development industry. A front end developer builds awesome and good looking User Interfaces through which the users can interact in the web page. Now, the most important things, which are required for a successful front end developer are his/her creativity, curiosity, experimental skills and patience. A front end developer must have creativity to build better user interfaces, he/she must be curious about learning different technologies that are evolving day-by-day, he/she must have the skill to experiment the things by creating the things by their own.

The above discussed were the behavioral things which must be present inside a front end developer. And apart from these things, the technologies, languages, libraries and all the other technical aspects that a front end developer should know will be discussed very rapidly.

                        

Languages for front end development

Some languages are mandatory for a front end developer to learn and those basic languages are mentioned below:

1. HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language, is a standard markup language (not a programming language) used to make web pages. The basis of all the web pages is basically HTML, i.e. the most basic component to build a web page is HTML. A web browser receives an HTML document from the web server or local storage and renders them into the multimedia web pages. The HTML elements/tags are the building blocks of HTML page.

2. CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, is a style sheet language(not a programming language) which is used for describing the presentation of a document written in markup languages like HTML. Basically CSS is used for styling purpose, we can style and render the elements of HTML in our own way with the help of CSS.

3. JavaScript

 Often abbreviated as JS, is a high level, interpreted programming language. It is famous for it's versatility and performance. It is a language which is also categorized as dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based and multi-paradigm. Apart from HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the three core technologies of World Wide Web. JavaScript enables interactive web pages and hence it is a very significant part of web development. In fact, nowadays JavaScript is most dominating programming language in the planet (according to a survey in StackOverflow).


The above mentioned languages are not sufficient for developing enterprise level web applications, apart from the above mentioned languages, some frameworks and other technologies are also required for becoming a successful front end developer. Some of the frameworks are given below.

Frameworks for Front-End Development:

Apart from the basic 3 programming languages, a successful and experienced front end developer must have knowledge about some of the front end frameworks which are very useful in developing enterprise level web apps which are highly scalable. But a question always arises in the mind of a beginner that what actually is a framework? Well, a framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user written code (very complex definition). In simple words, a framework is an abstraction which is written over a programming language and which provides us a standard way to build and deploy our applications.

Some famous front end frameworks are mentioned below: 

1. Angular -

This framework is based on TypeScript programming language developed by Google.
This framework is very famous for building Single Page Applications(SPAs). It is modular and  currently one of the most dominating web frameworks. It has a very powerful community  support. It is very helpful in building highly scalable and deployable applications.

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Angular 7 - Latest version of Angular
                 

2. React - 

This framework is developed by Facebook and is based on JavaScript programming                language. This framework is famous for building Multi Page Applications(MPAs). It is also very modular and is also one of the most dominating web frameworks present in this planet. As it is developed by Facebook community, so it has a very good community support. The React framework is entirely based on JavaScript XML (JSX).

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React 16 - Latest version of React
                 

3. Vue.js - 

This is a very famous open-source web framework developed by Evan You in Feb, 2014. It has gained a lot of attention and attraction of the web developers towards it. It is also one of the most popular and widely used web frameworks.
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The Vue js Framework
                               


4. Electron - 

Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) is an open-source framework developed and maintained by GitHub. Electron allows for the development of the desktop GUI applications using front end back end components originally developed for web applications: Node js runtime for the backend and chromium for the backend. Electron is the main GUI framework behind several notable open-source projects like GitHub's Atom and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, etc

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The Electron framework


5. Bootstrap - 

Bootstrap is a free and open source front-end framework for developing websites                  and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS based design templates for                        typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as extra JavaScript extensions. Bootstrap is the second most-starred project on GitHub, with more than 129,000 stars.


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The Bootstrap Framework

The above mentioned web frameworks are the most popular and widely used web frameworks which are widely used throughout the world. To start a career as a front end developer you should learn at least two of these frameworks. There are more frameworks in the market but these were the most trending frameworks.


The last Words

This blog is a beginner's guide on how to start a career as a front end web developer. The above mentioned details about all the frameworks and technologies are very helpful and the above mentioned technologies are the trending ones and you can excel your career by learning these technologies as a front end web developer. If you found this post helpful then please give your valuable comments.




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  1. ictstudyhomeSeptember 8, 2019 at 11:13 AM


    Greetings! Very helpful advice in this particular article! It is the little changes that will make the greatest changes. Thanks for sharing!
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