here are more than 1.5 billion websites live today on the internet. With so much competition, businesses and startups have to add unique features to their websites. Startups or businesses can make their website stand out from the competition by constantly upgrading their websites with the latest web development technologies out there. Being a leading web development company, we know that a few technologies would prove to be game-changers in the coming year.
In this article, we have detailed the most popular web development technologies that will help businesses and startups to take their expansion and reach to the next level.
#1. API-first Approach
The APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are software intermediaries that enable efficient communication amongst different software tools. APIs help web developers to create complex functionalities easily.
APIs are like waiters in a restaurant who take the customer’s order to the kitchen and bring the meal they ordered.
An API takes the requests of the users to a system and returns an appropriate response. And API-first web development methodology is very popular amongst web developers today.
There is a wide range of benefits of an API-first design methodology. An API-first web development methodology allows web developers to reuse the same code between projects, thus reducing the development cost.
The API -first approach also increases the speed to market of the project as the web developers do not need to redesign the API architecture whenever they want to add new features to the website. The API approach provides a high level of stability to the website which improves the user experience.
The API approach proves to be a boon for startups as it allows them to benefit from technologies that would otherwise be out of their budget. The Google Maps and Twitter APIs are good examples of how APIs help businesses. The websites can use the API of Twitter to display the tweets from Twitter and Twitter, which in return, gets the benefit of improved traffic. By using the Google Maps API, a website can save a huge amount of money and time that is spent on drawing a map and in adding routing functionality.
#2. Motion UI
To make a website more appealing to the users, web designers use attractive animations, graphics, and transitions. Motion UI is a library with the latest front-end technologies and a large number of attractive animations. Motion UI also allows the designers to build custom animations. Motion UI is especially helpful in increasing the user engagement of the website visitor, which translates into better revenues.
Using Motion UI, the designers can build an attractive welcome screen. A good welcome screen has a positive impact on the customers. The designers can also build beautiful animations to keep the users engaged while the page is loading.
Motion UI allows the designers to play with elements like velocity and bounce to help retain the attention of the users and add to the user experience. Various activities like deleting a message, uninstalling an application need attractive confirmation animations. These attractive confirmation animations make sure that the users do not make any mistakes while completing these activities.
A lot of websites add fun animations to gain popularity. The users like to visit such websites repeatedly to watch the fun animations as they make the content more enjoyable. Using Motion UI, the designers can easily add such fun animations to the website. Motion UI can help websites create a lasting impression on the minds of their users.
#3. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
As seen in the below-mentioned chart, the share of mobile phone website traffic has increased substantially in the past decade.
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a project launched by Google in October 2015. The aim behind launching AMP was to help web developers build mobile website pages that could load very fast. The enhanced HTML technology behind AMPs helps the developers build really fast websites and web apps.
AMPs prove to be very useful for eCommerce websites as nobody likes to wait on an eCommerce website. According to a study, even a 1-second delay in uploading a website can lead to a 16% reduction in customer satisfaction.
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