New Trends for Web Application Development
Each year, new trends and technologies emerged and form the environment that web application development companies found themselves in. We’re already halfway in 2019 and this new era of digital transformation will continue to set trend with the incorporation of new technologies such as AI and Machine Learning as well as Blockchain influencing the global economy.
As a business owner, when it comes to web technology, it’s important that you choose the right technologies in order to improve your product’s performance, and usability to provide customers with a unique, interesting, and highly personalized experience. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could offer businesses a competitive edge to stay ahead in the new era of the digital economy.
Specifically, software development companies are always looking out for ways to adapt to the increasingly competitive world of web development. Thus, it’s important that software development companies keep an eye on the web development trends that shape 2019 as well as the coming years.
In this article, we look at the new Web development trends that are expected to dominate the Web development industry in the latter half of 2019 and the coming years.
1. AI and Machine Learning Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Technologies is becoming more and more popular in web development, particularly for e-commerce companies who seeking to continually provide interesting and personalized experience to their consumers shopping online.
Successful e-commerce companies would actively seek to develop and integrate innovative technologies to their website development such as: chatbots, Voice Search, and other AI & ML powered solutions such as business intelligence and analytics. There are many ways AI and ML technologies can provide added value to business web development, including:
- Provide a more relevant and personalized online shopping experience
- Taking care of customer service better
- More effective marketing campaigns.
- Improve business analytics and intelligence
Incorporating AI and Machine Learning technologies into web development will not only make the experience better and more personalized to customers, but it also makes the navigation through the website becomes easier and more convenient – providing customers with a perfect online browsing experience.
For the time being, we also witness the rise of voice search and virtual assistants (e.g. Amazon Alexa, Echo) assist customers with their online shopping tasks and helped businesses engage with their customers easier than ever.
2. Single Page Application
A single-page application (SPA), as the name implied, is a form of web application or site based on Javascript technology (e.g. Angular or React) that fit into only one single page – offering a more streamlined and more controlled UX (user experience) to users by hiding all the complexities (e.g. requests, responses) and exchanges only the content requested users, loading the HTML data in chunk.
Also, SPA minimizes user flow interruption due to page reloading and speed-up time responding to navigations requests by not having to fetch new HTML from the server.
Overall, SPA provides users with a better browsing experience together with a better performance and is a great choice when it comes to web development – being responsive with minimal interruption and work seamlessly across a range of devices including mobile, tablet, and desktop/laptop devices.
3. Mobile-Friendly Website & AMP
In the new era of the digital economy, people are increasingly spending more time using their mobile devices to access the internet. According to Statista[1], over half of all internet traffic (approximately 52.2%) is now coming from Mobile devices and tablets. Thus, it’s important for developers to build their website mobile-friendly and meeting the mobile-first requirements.
AMP is an initiative that enables a web page to load super-fast by removing unnecessary scripts that slowing them down, providing content to users near instantaneously.
According to ampproject.org: “Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open-source initiatives that came out of discussions between publishers and technology companies about the need to improve the entire mobile content ecosystem for everyone” [2]
As web traffic and internet access gradually moving towards mobile devices, the adoption of AMP in web development is expected to increase in the coming years.
4. Motion UI
Among the new technologies for web development, Motion UI stands out as a highly promising concept due to its ability to allow smooth transitional effects on the UI (user interface). Motion UI direct user’s attention to the areas which need their focus and also helps users to easily find the information they need by pointing at the right area.
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With the increasing demand for interactive web design and responsiveness, Motion UI is a great front-end framework helping web development companies building fully responsive websites and mobile apps, allowing web developers to create effective animated content without having to be well-versed in Javascript and/or jQuery.
5. Progressive Web App (PWA)
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) provide many amazing benefits to businesses and customers as PWA is an innovative solution in web development and they are fast, compact, and reliable. PWAs provide consumers an experience very much similar to mobile-app without required users to perform any installations by logging on to the Apple app store or Google Play store. Due to those attractive features, many big companies in E-commerce and Social Media have made their transitions to PWA.
Read more about: PWA and its benefits in our previous blog post.
6. JavaScript
According to a survey conducted by StackOverflow in 2018, Javascript ranks as the most popular programming language and has been so in the last few years. Being an established programming language, Javascript has evolved together with its strong community of developers offering numerous frameworks, libraries, documentation, etc. making web developers’ jobs easier. Javascript is likely to remain as one of the most popular and adopted trends in web development in the coming years.
7. Cybersecurity
Last but not least, cybersecurity has always been one of the hottest topics in web development and it won’t disappear anytime soon – due to the fact that it is not an additional item stacked into a website, but critical in every decision and process. Data theft, malware, hacking, and other malicious attacks are some of the security threats that can cause devastation to the entire website and business.
With that in mind, development companies and developers as well as customer companies need to proactively strengthen and apply security measures into their development to protect customers’ websites from potential vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks.
Conclusion
The web development industry is constantly evolving with new technology trends including frameworks, design standards, etc. together fulfilling a mobile-first requirement that is required in the new digital economy. Keeping up with the current technologies is a good thing, but a heads-up on the new trends of the future is what helps businesses staying ahead of the competition.
With the advancement of new technologies, the web development industry is anticipated to continue thriving, innovating, and driving business growth in 2019 and the coming years.
References:
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/241462/global-mobile-phone-website-traffic-share/
- https://www.ampproject.org/support/faqs/overview/
- https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
