6 Best Node.JS Frameworks for Web App Developers
JavaScript was one among the many players that scripted the success of companies at a time when the internet was booming. It enabled developers and programmers to fashion great websites with newfound interactive elements like embedded video players, animations, and maps that ultimately sought to enrich user experience. Like any other programming language, JavaScript too evolved with different versions and additional layers launching at different times – one among them was the Node.JS framework.
It is essentially a broad environment with extensive libraries for developing advanced applications and taking web development to the next level. More importantly, they can be used to run JavaScript code outside web browsers. Clients that hire Indian programmers have taken a liking to Node.JS especially because it can be used to develop rich and efficient applications on the server-side that is also scalable.
This is why, in this blog post, we will list out some of the best Node.JS frameworks in 2021 that dedicated Node.Js developers could check out.
Top 6 Best Node.Js Frameworks For Developers:
1. Meteor–
As proclaimed by the platform, Meteor is an open-source framework that is compatible with web, mobile (both iOS and Android), and desktop. Many international companies like Mazda and Qualcomm use Meteor and rightly so – there is integration with Mongo, Vue, Angular; build applications for multiple devices; lightweight and integration of technologies. Yet the best feature of Meteor is its thriving community support that addresses developer questions on forums and hosts events.
2. Koa –
Koa is a next-generation framework designed by the people at Express with the mandate of providing a robust and lithe framework to build apps. It does away with complex code and instead incorporates an array of middleware functions that are executed in a progressive manner. Therefore, it ensures interoperability while making coding hassle-free for developers. Because it has a small footprint – meaning that it produces greater output with less input, developers would surely be enthralled working with it.
3. Socket.io–
This framework is primarily used by clients to design bi-directional and situational communication mechanisms. Boasting a web-socket architecture, this tool is all about reliability and speed –this can be leveraged in generating insightful analytics and work collaboration by multiple users. What’s more? Socket.io also helps developers to design smart chatbots for clients looking to address customer queries in a proactive manner.
4. Adonis –
This Adonis framework screams ease of use, doing everything in its power to make the developer’s work easy and bring about stability. There is a great set of documentation blogs that includes code samples for developers to get started quickly. With seamless authentication and robust database management of SQL, we are sure that developers, especially freelancers can get a hold of Node.JS.
5. Sails.JS –
It is one of the most popular MVC (Model-View-Controller) frameworks out there, that works akin to Ruby on Rails. One of the best features is the auto-generated REST APIs that help developers kick-start the backend operations without much coding. Besides many companies like Microsoft using Sails.JS, it also comes with ORM that allows it to connect any two incompatible type systems. Having support for multiple front-ends, this framework is fully written in JavaScript, allowing for speedy module development.
6. Nest.JS –
This Nest.Js is yet another progressive framework that is both versatile and extensible, as the framework incorporates adaptability and flexibility to build any sort of application with access to other libraries. One thing to note is that it helps clients, particularly big clients, that our programmer for building scalable solutions for future enterprises. The framework’s modular structure makes for smart development, testing, and maintenance of apps.
There are several Node.JS frameworks that cater to different purposes and we did find some of them interesting such as Hapi. dev, Diet.JS, Flatiron.JS, and many more. The above frameworks are just some of the favorites that we thought are worth sharing.
Have you come across any framework that we may have missed out on? Let us know your thoughts below.
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Obsolete Web-designs That Developers Must Phase Out
Web developers who have been in this field for more than a decade, like us, would have undertaken several software projects for their clients across platforms. In the course of this period, they might have taken a liking to some design elements and used it extensively in these web development projects. It could have even gone on to become their trademark or touch with every project. However, as with most things in life, design elements can also become obsolete. It is therefore important for developers to remember that they need to constantly reinvent themselves with the passage of time. In this blogpost, we will look at some of the obsolete trends in web design that developers would do well to phase out.
Image Sliders
These were quite popular among many clients hire a programmer to develop their first business websites. Having the ability to convey more visually in a limited screen real estate was considered a big deal back then. However, clients run the danger of suffering from sluggish page load times and bounce rates. Image sliders can be heavy and tend to distract users from browsing the other parts of the site. Moreover, in this era of information clutter, it would augur well for clients to develop a clean website.
Pop-Ups
One of the major irritants of website browsing for users are pop-ups. While pop-ups can be effectively used on a need basis, they can turn out to be disastrous for clients depending on the reason, frequency and time of appearance. We have all come across that website that repeatedly sends pop-ups on every return visit and end up getting frustrated. Better to phase it out than face the destructive ‘wrath’ of users.
Flash Support
While Adobe has already stated that it would stop support for flash, some websites still continue to use it. It has certainly gone out of fashion in 2019, given its many flaws that includes ease of use. It makes little sense to insist on using them because that would leave a big void literally and figuratively.
Scrolling
By scrolling, we really refer to the non-traditional means of scrolling like horizontal scrolling for instance. While many forms of user navigation may have developed, especially in smart handheld devices, it hasn’t really translated the same way on the desktop. While non-traditional scrolling can help in getting attention, it doesn’t make up for ease of use. When it comes to the regular users, ease of use is all that matters, isn’t?
Media Auto-play
We have seen this across many media websites like blogs, news, magazines and forums. For the average user looking to consume meaningful content, nothing frustrates as much as this media suddenly playing out of nowhere automatically. Some even consider it as a violation of consent, dampening their browsing experience.
These are some of the top design trends that developers need to make an effort to phase out. There are more such design elements that are either obsolete or make for an unpleasant browsing experience such as using stock photos that really don’t make an impact, not optimising website for speed and so on.
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Making for ‘Missing Out’ digital experiences
The rise of social media has been an epic phenomenon by itself – both for the good and bad. While it has connected people in hitherto unthinkable ways, it has also resulted in a certain kind of anxiety and negative emotions. This has been witnessed across the world and cultures, an increasing trend particularly with the boom of photo sharing networks, online shopping and related trends. In fact, a term was even coined, going by the abbreviation – FOMO – standing for ‘Fear-Of-Missing-Out’.
Defining FOMO
Consumers, especially millennials, are prone to experience FOMO – a persistent anxiety mixed with negative feelings of jealousy because they are cut off from so called rewarding and gratifying experiences that others might be enjoying. Whenever one experiences FOMO, they do everything it takes to get/purchase that experience in order to stay connected with the ‘mainstream’. In the event of missing out, this fear can grow into something potentially dangerous such as depression.
In a bid to grow their sales, businesses think of different ways to market their products and services. Sometimes, they have the tendency to overdo it under a deceptive discount veil, in order to keep clear and replenish their inventories. For instance, some big clients that hire a programmer from us to maintain their e-commerce portal, organise massive sale days where dedicated products are sold at deep discounts on selected days with countdowns! It is a perfect recipe for making decisions under pressure or for FOMO. Many a time, those purchases may be irrational on the part of customer, who realises this later and regrets for the same, thereby adding a negative sentiment towards the business. Certainly, businesses do not want to get on the bad side of customers. In this blogpost, we will discuss on how to eliminate the fear factor in FOMO and instead foster and create gentle ‘missing out’ digital experiences.
Eliminating the fear factor
One of the simple ways to strike balance between generating sales and not contribute to FOMO in customers is by perfecting the art of nudging. What is a nudge? It is a gentle (or in this case professional) push to the customers that they have to purchase their compelling product/service. This can and should be done on a need basis – that is informing customers on the limited availability of that particular purchase which is strictly desirable. It makes for less stressful purchase decisions rather than a hasty, impulsive and later regretful decision. Ultimately, it also exhibits professionalism on the part of the business that cares for its customers. Even simple layout designs like separate pages for offers and wish-list can reduce tension as compared to laying it all out in the homepage itself.
Another positive way to induce just the ‘missing out’ factor is to build upon the rewards/points generated by users. These rewards when accumulated to a certain level, can be spent on future purchases within a cut-off date. Suppose a customer has earned a good number of points from her last vacation booked online and is planning for another upcoming tour. The customer can be reminded on this regard on a periodic basis so that she can encash it when the time comes. Couple this with an attractive deal, then clients got themselves a very satisfactory purchase by a very happy client.
But perhaps the best way to positively market a ‘missing out’ experience is through the referral program from friends, family and colleagues. Even at HireIndianProgrammers, when we take over existing product websites and expand its scope, we check for any referral mechanisms and implement the same, if absent. What do we mean by referral? Crudely put, it is marketing done by customer’s social circle – they recommend using the product through the invite feature (referral) by sharing their experiences. This proves to be beneficial for all stakeholders including the business – by virtue of more sales. Finally, clients can take care not to fall into the pitfall of displaying ‘mainstream’ or ‘gratifying’ media to induce customer purchase. It doesn’t bode well for a healthy customer relationship. Rather, clients can work on displaying natural and real environment images. This reduces the anxiety caused by mismatch of expectation and reality post purchase.
Web Development under Artificial Intelligence
Lately, Artificial Intelligence has been making waves across fields ranging from automobiles to government services. Given the strides the technology has made, it is safe say that that AI is no more an emerging technology but very much on progress and growing. While it has virtually limitless applications for different industries, what does it mean for web development? Is AI in that stage where it can design applications and be a potential threat to developers? Currently, AI has restricted applications within which it can pretty much enhance the web development functions like basic facial recognition, keyword identification and so on. In this blogpost, we will see how and whether AI can make a significant impact in the web development world in the near future.
So, is it possible for Artificial Intelligence to ever don and execute the role of a web developer?
Clients hire a programmer to develop websites and interactive applications for their business. More often than not, this requires a stringent adherence to deadlines and satisfying key project requirements. In this kind of web development, web developers typically work on similar kind of projects, gather expertise in it and master the same over a period of time – the uncertainties and imagination levels are low. Within this context also, AI, at the best can enhance the work of the developer by bringing about efficiency and effectiveness, attributed to its machine level accuracy.
For example, consider the task of displaying media based on hashtags. AI can easily achieve this collating all the similar hashtags posted by users across the world and display the same for other people looking for such hashtags on multiple devices – efficiency and effectiveness on point.
However, this is far from the real and big picture. This is because Artificial Intelligence can never be used as a substitute for human beings, let alone design like them. Why? There is no machine in the world as adaptable and complex as the human brain. Human beings perceive their world in different ways, possess different attitudes and opinions and follow different norms. They differ not only between individuals but also across countries and cultures. In addition to that, people have emotions that shape their world views. Designing an AI web developer would need to take into consideration all the above factors which are just too many to even think of. Added to this complexity is the temporal factor – human beings change over time.
Long story short, there are just too many variables to account for, if a dedicated AI system to function as a web developer is to be designed. But perhaps, the biggest constraint in teaching AI is the unique human characteristic of empathy. Every client and project that a developer undertakes is unique, coming with their own scope, expectations, target market, industry scenario, economic viability, brand equity, channels and so on. Therefore, there arises a need to think imaginatively sometimes, which cannot be mimicked by AI, even after accumulating information over several projects. In fact, this becomes the need of the hour in this era of intense online competition and increased visibility and awareness among customers.
Consider the task of bringing maximum number of people to the checkout point in an e-commerce site. Engaging the customer to stay in a website is a challenging task as such. The AI would also need to equip itself to understand the whims and distractive mind of customers. Beyond this, it needs to implement optimal and humanistic solutions in the face of untoward crises. These are all outside the purview of Artificial Intelligence.
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Design awesome websites with these CSS libraries
Most of us web developers and programmers would be familiar with CSS frameworks. Many a time, clients with an intent to hire a programmer expect a solid, responsive and accessible website. In an effort to deliver upon such expectations, programmers work round the clock deploying their best methodologies that also includes effectively leveraging the power of CSS. What is the beauty of CSS you ask? Front end web development plays a major role in attracting users to the website and CSS is a significant part of the same. CSS frameworks provide a robust and standardised platform for programmers to address the common and recurring issues of front end web development without having to start from scratch every time while designing applications for clients. After all, time is of the essence for web developers. CSS libraries on the other hand provide greater control to the developer.
There are several CSS libraries available on the internet which forms the basis for this blogpost. In our collective endeavour to better satisfy the clients, our developer team at HireIndianProgrammers came up with a list of cool CSS libraries that will definitely make the client’s website stand out from the competitive crowd.
CSS Wand
True to its name, CSS Wand empowers the developer to customise websites creatively with an easy copy-paste mechanism. The library is a simple CSS tool that allows for deploying cool animation effects on the client’s site. For example, designing buttons with a ripple effect and deliberating on the perfect loading animations.
Atomise
Atomise is a very minimalistic CSS library more suited for those clients that want to keep things simple or make an apparent understatement. As the library proclaims, Atomise is style neutral letting developers to define their own margin and grid classes and breakpoints. Perhaps the main highlight of this tool is its emphasis on human-readable classes.
Spectrum CSS
Coming from the stables of Adobe, this CSS is along the lines of Adobe’s design language. It is a CSS-only library meaning that only simple things like typography, checkboxes and the like are designed. Developers can access the demo from their website, thus giving an idea of different elements.
Woah.css
Having the ability to install either via npm or bower, Woah.css is for those clients that want to exhibit quirkiness in their website. While this may not appeal to serious business entrepreneurs, we are sure that there are some start-up clients with wacky sense of humour and serve their customers in the same manner. The different animation effects available on Woah.css speaks for itself in this regard. There is even an infinite class for repeating animations forever.
Denali
This CSS library is perfect for the serious formal business websites that want to project a highly professional image. Based on its own design language, the denali design language, this CSS is lightweight and flexible. Developers have the ability to design with custom variables there by making it easier for the tool’s components to adapt to any business brand.
relaxCSS
We would recommend this library especially for the beginner developers looking to easily deploy simple CSS animations on their client’s website. There are several components such as backgrounds, buttons, font weight, tables, text containers, margins and more. There is also a dark theme available. Adding these styles is not a difficulty which can be done by a grid layout.
Raisin CSS
This is a utility library that certainly requires some amount of expertise on the part of the developer to indulge with different classes. There are pre-built modules like CSS Grid, breakpoints, overflow and so on which allow for high levels of customisation.
There are many more such CSS libraries such vov.css, animation library etc. Having gone through the list, what do you think would be a great CSS library for your web development assignment. Share us your comments below.
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Choosing the Best Frontend Frameworks for Web Development in 2022
The front end of a website plays an important role in attracting and retaining customers to buy client products and services. It is not only important from a brand perspective but also plays a functional role right from accessing content to payment checkout. In that respect, clients would need to hire a programmer that accords prime priority in choosing the right and most effective front-end development framework.
There are several best frontend frameworks in the market but there are only a few that really make a mark in terms of quality and reliability. After all, what more does a developer want? Some of the best front-end frameworks are used by many successful companies like Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, etc. according to the state of JS report, 2020.
What are Front end development and Frontend Frameworks?
Front end development is the development of what you first see in their browser and it can manage everything that users first see visually in the applications or browsers. It includes the design part, looks, and feel, of the site.
The front-end framework is the CSS framework to build interactive web apps with complex, unique, and scalable features. It helps to develop a web app with complex operations and seamless features for the pleasant look and feel and easy-to-use functions.
The best web front-end development frameworks are the software tool or product that serves as the basis to develop the front-end parts of the web solutions. Nowadays multiple frameworks are available and ruling the market that’s why it is quite difficult to choose the best frontend frameworks to use for web app development. To help you out, we come up with a list of the top 5 popular web front-end development frameworks in 2022 that help you to build and design seamless apps.
Top 5 Popular Front End Frameworks of 2022:
In this blog post, we will take a look at some of the better and more prominent best front-end frameworks to use for web app development that is also typically popular amongst developers. While every framework has its pros and cons, developers would do well to be informed of the client’s project requirements so as to select the most appropriate framework. Sometimes, it may be that the project may not be too complex which removes the need for using a sophisticated framework.
Let us start with the most widely used framework – Bootstrap.
1. Bootstrap Framework:
Most developers would be familiar with Bootstrap for it is known to help build superior websites for a long time. In fact, even some clients come back to us to use Bootstrap for their next website or allied websites, because they prefer it for the intuitive interface the framework promises and delivers. As per the Twitter Bootstrap statistics 2020, Bootstrap ran 18% of the top million sites.
Bootstrap is also a modular and mobile-first framework – meaning that selective components can be deployed and adapted to the mobile ecosystem. Perhaps, the greatest advantage of Bootstrap is its open-source credential, exhaustive resources, and the availability of powerful plugins that developers really need to develop a decent website.
Pros of Bootstrap:
- Bootstrap has a shallow learning curve
- Come up with many pre-style components
- Compatible with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and other modern browsers
- The community support is excellent
- Comes with extensive built-in components (Sass, mixins)
Cons of Bootstrap:
- Similar looking elements are created.
- Results in buggy websites because of so many anti-patterns
- Manual deletion is required because of heavy file generation
Top-rated websites and apps built by Bootstrap
- BscScan
- PayPal
- Ahrefs
- Font Awesome
2. Foundation Framework:
Next, we have Foundation. Developed by ZURB, this enterprise-level mobile-friendly front-end framework delivers true to its name – builds a strong foundational best front-end framework. It enjoys patronage by many big websites like Facebook, eBay, National Geographic, and so on.
With good documentation, developers can get started easily with frontend development. Foundation proclaims to enable developers to design for any medium – be it mobile or desktop – and with a constantly increasing set of resources and templates, one can even build dedicated mobile-first websites.
Pros of Foundation:
- Can create responsive and lightweight websites
- Grids are more flexible
- Authenticated library is formed with HTML5
- Mobile friendly front end framework
- Come with GPU acceleration features
Cons of Foundation:
- Fewer support platforms and community
- Hard to learn for freshers
- Not good for contender framework (Twitter)
Top-rated websites built by Foundation
- ADIDAS
- Vans
- Fandango
- Kawasaki
- iStockphoto
3. Ulkit by Yootheme:
Third on our list is UIKit, a very light and modular fastest customizable front-end framework developed by YOOtheme. Having a set of ready-to-use and customizable components is for those developers that want to get into manual mode and develop fast, powerful websites.
Also advocating the mobile-first approach gives space for developers to create their own styles, taking inspiration from the framework’s community. Although not quite popular, developers can try this if they want to elaborate on a basic style and build upon it by innovative customization.
Pros of Ulkit
- Easy to use, and flexible
- Possible to customize manually
- Useful to create a powerful WordPress website
- Mobile-first and responsive framework
- It can be extendable with themes
- Off-canvas navigations by supporting RTL
Cons of Ulkit
- Sometimes Ulkit codes can break after article saving
- 2 versions are quite difficult to use simultaneously
Well-known websites built by UIKit
- Igg-games
- Uptime robot
- Extend office
- Webempresa
4. Semantic UI:
We have other front-end development frameworks like Semantic UI. This modern front-end development framework is invented by Jack Lukic, released in 2014. This is the best JavaScript front-end framework supported by jQuery and LESS and it is new in the market. While the former emphasizes human-friendly code using natural language principles the latter CSS framework advocates minimal footprint in terms of coding.
Ultimately, it all boils down to the preferences, compromises, needs and wants, can-do-away with and cannot-do-away-with features decided by both the developer and the client jointly. Of course, we do have some basic guidelines that developers can follow to make their decision easier.
Pros of Semantic UI:
- Easy coding to learn for novice
- It offers support for a wide range of 3rd party libraries
- Help to reduce the load times because of small size files
- Powerful, flexible, and quick customization is available
- Rich in receptiveness and UI modules
Cons of Semantic UI:
- Packages are quite larger
- Not easy for learners without Javascript knowledge
- Low popularity
Websites built using Semantic UI
- App Codility
- Readm
- Discudemy
- Arts P
- Oschina
5. Pure by Yahoo:
Pure CSS framework by Yahoo is an advanced base theme, responsive, HTML5, mobile-first framework developed by Dr. Radut. This framework is using a responsive powerful Yahoo Pure.CSS framework and includes fully-featured, 2 fine-tuned, end-user themes. You can choose this front-end CSS framework as the fastest and tiny one. This framework is compatible with cross-browser by HTML5 validating themes. This is the best frontend framework designed as per mobile and SEO compatibility.
Pros of Pure Framework:
- Ideal for small projects
- You can customize the responsive grid as per your need
- Standard and responsive grid systems
- CSS with a minimal footprint
- Multi-level drop-down menus
- Lightweight, easy to use
Cons of Pure Framework:
- Slow development
- Not suitable for beginners
- Messy code classes
Top-rated websites built by Pure Framework
- Knowledge.Autodesk
- Synology
- Flickr
- Testbook
Choose the best Frontend Frameworks for your Business:
As many of us might be aware, this is an era of disruption. Almost in every field, there is disruption and web development is no exception. There is huge competition among businesses and therefore there arises a need to be the best in a consistent way which means that they need to be able to quickly grasp any new trends or customer preferences and adapt or adapt accordingly.
Having said that, clients and developers would do well to choose that framework that is popular, evolving, and one that has an extensive documentation with some factors to consider while choosing your front-end framework. Because, in our opinion, documentation can speak volumes about a framework – it reflects the professionalism that guides developers to adopt their framework.
So which is the best front-end framework do you think would serve clients better? Contact us and leave us your thoughts with our developer team at Hire Indian Programmers.