Getting started with Web development
Getting started with web development
This article is for absolute
beginners, those who want to learn web development.
In this article, you will get
to know the different path of web development and the skills to acquire each
path.
Web development is still in a
high demand because each day everyone want to be on the face of the world, ranging
from schools, government, businesses, companies, organization e.t.c , to show
forth what they have. So learning web development will not be a mistake because
it will still be in demand for as long as the internet exists.
What is web development?
Web development can be
referred to creating, building and maintaining a websites.
A web site is a set of pages
of information on the internet usually used for communication.
Web development includes web
design, web publishing, web programming and database management. It’s divided into
three types:
·
Front end development
·
Back end
development, and
·
Full stack
Font end developer
A front ender handles the
visual aspects of how the web page looks and response to the visitor.
What is font end?
This refers to the aesthetic
portion of the website and its usability.
Front end is the part of the website users can see and interact with.
Anything that you can see when navigating the internet from font, colors, to
images, to dropdown menus and sidebar.
That is to say, front end
development has to do with designing the user interface of a site, like the
physical things that you can see when you visit a site. Front end developers
focus on making the site attractive and friendly. He has little or no business
with the functionality of the site.
A front end developer must
acquires the follow skills
·
HTML
·
CSS
·
JavaScript
A front end developer must
acquire those three skills at the early stage before learning other optional
skills like bootstraps, foundation, sass, angular js, less, e.t.c
Back end developer or back ender
The back end of wed sites
consists of a server, an application and a database. A back end developer
builds the technology that powers those components, which together, enable the
user-facing side of the website to exist in the first place.
Skills set require in becoming
a backend developer
A back end developer works
with the following:
·
Web development
language.
·
Data base and
caches
·
Server
·
API
A back end developer should at
least have one knowledge on server-side programming languages like Python,
Node.js, Express js, Angular js e.t.c
Database management system
technology is also important like mongoDB, Oracle, sqlsever, mysql e.t.c
Learning how to handle
apache, nginx, IIS servers is also desirable.
A back end developer is also
expected to acquire knowledge on Git and Github, jquery and json.
Full stack
Full stack developers works
like back end developer, on the server side of the web and also fluently speak
the front–end languages that control how content looks on a site’s user-facing
side. They’re jack of all trades
That’s to say a full stack
developer acquires both the front and back end skills
That’s it guys all you need
to know about web development.
The task is left for you to choose a path to
focus on and start you journey into web development.
Thank you
Do well to contact me for
further question and enquirers. I will also love to hear from you if this
article is helpful.
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