Web Application Development Tools for

Creating Perfect User Experience

Web is a fast growing area Now a days, there is the best and worst part of web application development, that web is constantly

changing. While the web is changing, we also have opportunities for building successful websites.

We thought to list some web application development tools and resources in this growing era that can help you to be more

productive, stay informed, and have a better application developed for your business.

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Web Development Tools And Resources For 2016

There are lots of web application developed these days, we can’t include everything, but here are some

couple of best web application tools and resources listed below.

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1. FRONT-END FRAMEWORKS

Front-end frameworks usually consist of a package that is made up of other files and folders, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. There are

also many stand-alone frameworks out there. We are a big fan of Bootstrap and the main KeyCDN website is built on it. A solid framework can be an essential tool for front-end developers.

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1. Bootstrap: HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

2. Foundation: Family of responsive front-end frameworks that make it easy to design beautiful responsive websites, apps and emails that look amazing on any device.

3. Semantic UI: Development framework that helps create beautiful, responsive layouts using human-friendly HTML.

4. UIkit: A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.

2. JavaScript Libraries

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JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages on the web. A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript which allows easier access throughout the development of your website or application. For example, you can include a copy of Google’s hosted jQuery library by using the following snippet.

1. jQuery: A fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.

2. React: Facebook’s JavaScript library developed for building user interfaces.

3. jQuery UI: A curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes.

4. jQuery Mobile: HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites.

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3. Web Application Frameworks

A web application framework is a software framework designed to aid and alleviate some of the headache involved

in the development of web applications and services. KeyCDNactually hosts a version of AngularJS, HTTP/2 and CORS

enabled, that you can use in your projects completely free.

1. Zend Framework 2: An open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP.

2. CakePHP: A popular PHP framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code.

3. CodeIgniter: Powerful and lightweight PHP framework built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

4. Ruby: Ruby on Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications, with the MVC pattern.

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4. Languages / Platforms

Behind all the web development tools is a language. A programming language is a formal constructed language

designed to communicate with a computer and create programs in which you can control the behavior. And yes we

realize some of these might not always be referred to as a language.

1. PHP: Popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.

2. NodeJS: Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.

3. Javascript: Programming language of HTML and the web.

4. HTML5: Markup language, the latest version of HTML and XHTML.

5. CSS3: Latest version of cascading style sheets used in front-end development of sites and applications.

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5. Databases

A database is a collection of information that is stored so that it can be retrieved, managed and updated.

1. MySQL: One of the world’s most popular open source databases.

2. MongoDB: Next-generation database that lets you create applications never before possible.

3. Redis: An open source, in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker.

4. PostgreSQL: A powerful, open source object-relational database system.

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6. Text Editors / Code Editors

Whether you’re taking notes, coding, or writing markdown, a good text editor is a part of our daily lives!

1. Notepad++: A free source code editor which supports several programming

languages running under the MS Windows environment.

2. Visual Studio Code Beta: Code editing redefined and optimized for building

and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

3. WebStorm: Lightweight yet powerful IDE, perfectly equipped for complex

client-side development and server-side development with Node.js.

4. Vim: A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.

5. Brackets: A lightweight and powerful modern text editor; written in

JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

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7. Local Dev Environments

Depending upon what OS you are running or the computer you currently have access to, it might be necessary to launch a quick local dev environment. There are a lot of free utilities that bundle Apache,

mySQL, phpmyAdmin, etc. all together. This can be a quick way to test something on your local machine. A lot of them even have portable

versions.

1. XAMPP: Completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl.

2. MAMP: Local server environment in a matter of seconds on OS X or Windows.

3. WampServer: Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and a MySQL database.

4. Vagrant: Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

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8. Code Sharing / Experimenting

There is always that time when you are on Skype or Google hangout with another developer and you want him or her to take a quick look at your code. There are great team tools for sharing code like Slack, but if

they aren’t a member of your team there are some great quick alternatives. Remember not to share anything secure.

1. JS Bin: Tool for experimenting with web languages. In particular HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Markdown, Jade and Sass.

2. JSfiddle: Custom environment to test your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code right inside your browser.

3. Codeshare: Share code in real-time with other developers.

4. Dabblet: Interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code.

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9. Website Speed Test Tools

The speed of a website can be a critical factor to its success. Faster loading websites can benefit from higher SEO

rankings, higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates, and a better overall user experience and engagement. It is

important to take advantage of the many free tools available for testing website speed.

1. Website Speed Test: A page speed test developed by KeyCDNthat includes a waterfall breakdown and the website preview.

2. Google PageSpeed Insights: PageSpeed Insights analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.

3. Google Chrome DevTools: Set of web authoring and debugging tools built into Google Chrome.

4. Pingdom: Test the load time of that page, analyze it and find bottlenecks.

References

• http://usersnap.com/blog/web-development-trends-2016/

• http://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/apps/18-best-mobile-application-development-platforms-tools-3375307/

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