A Feasible Workaround to JavaScript
As a major player in the web development space and having an enviable record of undertaking diverse projects, we have had the fortune of using many programming languages. One of the most popular programming language which we have time and again used in most of our assignments is Javascript. Of course, like any other programming language it has both pros and cons but there is a reason why it is endorsed by a 12 million strong developer community – its wide scope for deploying applications from cloud to IoT along with its simple syntax. It is also the undisputed leader in front end web development and developers love using Javascript for developing applications for their clients.
Having said that, there are also some aspects of Javascript that developers are averse to such as differential execution in different browsers, single inheritance and lack of debugging functionalities. In a world of ample choices, the developer is ever on the lookout for any viable alternatives to Javascript. So, in today’s blogpost, we make an attempt to provide our insights on the different workarounds to Javascript available in the market. Now, we do acknowledge that these tools transpile another language to Javascript. Nevertheless, these are some noteworthy alternatives
Typescript
Typescript, developed by Microsoft, is an easy recommend for it not only improves upon Javascript but also adds a lot more features, making it an awesome alternative. It has support for static typing and Node.js, among other things. This open-source tool can be used in any browser with any host and any operating system. Clients hiring a programmer can especially use Typescript for developing large enterprise applications. It goes without saying that coding in this language requires a certain level of expertise.
Kaffeine
Kaffeine can be thought of as extensions to Javascript that enhances the latter’s functions in many aspects with a special focus on debugging. In fact, debugging has never been simpler. It adopts a practical approach, often doing away with over the top features of Javascript. The main pro of using this tool is its ease of use both for developers and end users, making the case for a smooth user experience.
Dart
‘Paint your UI to life’ is what this Google developed Dart VM proclaims and rightly so. Having support of type inference, Dart improves upon Javascript by removing some of its common irritants. It also comes with Google’s own kit, which enables Dart to go a step further and helps developers to design standalone web and mobile applications. At the same time, we also ask developers to tread cautiously, for there is not much of online resources in case of programming trouble.
Elm
Are you looking for advanced front end web development? Then Elm might be for you. It is not the typical general purpose language like Javascript. It proclaims itself as that friendly tool that seek to help in every which way – from displaying error messages and hints to eliminating runtime exceptions. However, given its capabilities, the learning curve is steep, thereby making it difficult for newbies to develop applications in a short period.
Coffeescript
Coffeescript is a decent attempt in bringing out the best of Javascript, especially improving on the latter’s readability. The execution is faster when compared to Javascript and having support for Node.Js is yet another advantage. However, the downside is that developers still need to be an expert in the original language and also has limited features. Moreover, the recent updates (ES6) of Javascript means that developers need not think twice about going back to Javascript itself.
No alternative in the above list is complete and has its share of pros and cons. For one, almost every tool requires some level of expertise to master it. At HireIndianProgrammers, we still believe that a true heir to Javascript is yet to arrive at the scene.
Upping your UX game
As experienced and committed developers, we are aware of and understand the importance of user experience in any web application including in mobile ecosystems. In fact, in many cases, UX becomes the compelling factor for users to access the web more in the context of smartphones. This is because of the increasing adoption of smartphones and tablets. A bad UX can break the business of the client and result in erosion of brand equity too. We have come across clients sharing their frustration of hiring a programmer for developing their business website only to end up with a not-so-elegant UX that in turn wasn’t able to take off in a meaningful way. In this blogpost, we will share our insights on how to upgrade your UX design skills. This assumes greater significance in the face of increased competition among UX designers and the need to stand out from the crowd.
Skilful Sourcing
One of the first and important things that UX designers need to remember is to gather as much inputs as possible, both from the client side and the user side. Getting multiple perspectives can help developers to design better in terms of both functionality and aesthetically. Gathering inputs in itself requires meticulous planning that includes asking the right questions to the right people through means like questionnaires, direct interviews etc. Secondly, developers must know that UX designing is a multi-stakeholder process involving agents like marketers, team leaders, testers, colleagues, clients etc. Having said that, they will need to deliberate on the various feedback given to/by them through different channels. Smart prioritising is of the essence. As you might have figured it out, communication plays a key role in both these stages.
Constant Reinventing
Next, developers would do well to stay abreast of the emerging trends and technologies like AI, AR/VR, IOT and so on. Why, you ask? Because, UX designing is strongly linked to business and we are seeing massive overhaul of businesses aided by these technologies. Therefore, developers would need to constantly upgrade themselves in order to stay relevant and be ahead of the competition. The advent of internet driven applications has another side to it – addiction. We have all seen the impact of social media and mobile games on teens and young working adults. More often than not, it can prove to be harmful for them, especially in the long term. This also needs to be taken into consideration while designing such intensive applications for the greater good.
Getting the message across
This in our opinion is crucial, given that there are many others who are working on your project – coders, testers, marketers, clients. Often, developers will need to don multiple hats effectively to get their message across. This also means putting efforts to understand others’ work. It will also give a complete picture of the business in its entirety. Ultimately, it goes a long way in producing great user experiences because of this one crucial factor and that is empathy. In fact, it would not be farfetched to conclude that empathy forms the basis for web development in general and UX designing in particular.
Now that you have gone through our post, what do you think is required for a great UX? Let us know your ideas below.
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Colour – a Cornerstone of positive UX
A holistic web development calls for equal attention to be paid on different aspects ranging from functionality to engagement. This includes colour too. While it might be insignificant for some clients hiring a developer, in our experience at HireIndianProgrammers, we have found that colour affects user experience in indirect but surely critical ways. Therefore, clients hiring a programmer would do well to concentrate on this, for it can make or break visitor engagement. Colour is strongly linked to the kind of business and the positioning that the business hiring programmer wants to cater and project.
In light of this, our company, given that various clients hire developers from us for different projects and the resultant experience, thought to share some of the insights and issues pertaining to colour in user experience.
Targeting your demographic set
Whether it is a website or an app that the company hiring coders is designing, they need to get the right colours for the targeted demographic. This can be accomplished by consulting with both marketing teams and developers alike. For instance, men tend to engage more with dark themes while women have an affinity towards medium shades. This again changes with the culture – relevant in the context of a company selling in multiple markets.
Exhibiting ideas with colour
Ultimately all businesses that hire a web developer to develop their website have a single goal – convey an idea and make that a compelling reason for customers to buy that idea (goods or service). In other words, businesses want to build brand equity. Colours are a key part in reinforcing these ideas in the customer’s mind. Different colours mean different things for people. For example, if the business is selling eco-friendly stationary, then hiring a programmer with the right expertise would probably result in a green themed website. In the long term, colour plays a major role. Can you possibly imagine a red coloured Internet Explorer logo?
Enhancing accessibility with colour
Colour also plays the other role of enhancing user accessibility. User accessibility is part and parcel of user engagement in a website. Therefore, a client hiring a coder, needs to incorporate colour design elements that improve navigation and engagement. This can range from simple links, buttons to sliders, transitions etc; Hiring a developer with good experience will ensure that visitors to the client’s website thoroughly enjoy the browsing experience. Having a knack for placing contrasting elements is an art in itself and provides for maximum convenience – leading more conversion rates.
We hope that this blogpost allayed some of your concerns. Frustrated about hiring a programmer who is a right fit for your web development project? Don’t fret, for you have come to the right place. At HireIndianProgrammers, you can now hire a developer to concretise your business dreams. All you need to do after hiring a coder from us is to stipulate the requirements as per your vision. Consider the rest done with the highest standards of quality, transparency and dedication.
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Smart App Development with MVP
In recent years, there has been a spurt in the number of businesses in the mobile space. As part of HireIndianProgrammers, our developers have been undertaking mobile app development projects both in Android and iOS. With every complex project, our developers have found that many clients are most often underfunded. This leads to a struggle for developing mobile apps in an effective manner. The projects are delivered ultimately but often we find that they could have been achieved in a simplistic manner.
In this blogpost, the developer team at HireIndianProgrammers discuss the what-how-when of MVP and its associated benefits. Clients who want to start off in a small way, owing to a fund crunch, can hire an android developer to develop a MVP for their android apps.
What is a MVP?
An MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is essentially a bare-bones, no-frills approach to developing a mobile app. Some clients may be low on funds or may want to target and build on their small business. For example, suppose a client wants to start his own online cake delivery shop on iOS. He can then hire an iOS developer to work on an MVP, a prototype of sorts and then release to a selected user market called early adopters or evangelists.
In this kind of mobile app development, the biggest onus lies on getting valuable feedback on the most essential functionality, which is what makes the entire MVP. The clients hiring an android developer need to work closely with the developer team in deciding the vital features, how to deploy them, round on a pilot group of adopters, arrange a medium for getting feedback from them and work on the subsequent development stages.
How to build it?
Our experience in providing mobile app development services enabled us to realise the importance of articulation and understanding of the client’s project. While building the MVP, the core purpose of the client’s business must be reflected in it. The next step is to locate the possible target segment – who is most likely to use the app and where are they largely residing. This must be found to start the pilot testing as they are a good representation of the larger target market.
The format for the MVP can be anything, again, it depends much on the client’s business that is hiring an android or iOS developer. It can be a basic application incorporating the essential features or it can be a landing page seeking feedback or it can even be an information page (text, audio, video) explaining the purpose of the application. In this type of mobile app development, developers have to tread cautiously to go full on with minimalistic development.
Clients hiring an android developer (or iOS) will do well to take seriously the feedback generated and deploy it in the final version. This is of course a continuous process. At the same time, in providing such mobile app development services, we have found that making sense of the different data – number of signups, number of users retained, specific feature data – will pay rich dividends in the course of developing the final version of the mobile app.
Benefits of MVP
Clients hiring an iOS developer to build a MVP are most likely to save time and costs – both critical for a mobile app development project. Why? Because the stakes here are high. Developers need to take account of time-to-market criteria. Many a time, android developers can go off the path building a bloated mobile app and end up in failure to attract user downloads.
What’s more? There may even arise the possibility that users are more than satisfied with the early product (MVP) itself. No need for further development. It is sort of a quicker enhanced development driven by the users themselves. MVP, as an integral part of mobile app development services can lead to better targeted applications quickly. For instance, clients hiring an android developer to deploy a niche app, by going for a MVP, can reduce the uncertainties and increase the probabilities of success.
Hope you found this article to be useful.
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Vue.js Tools and Libraries
Vue.js is a very popular JavaScript framework that is used for building beautiful user interfaces and single page applications. It has several advantages over other frameworks – some of them being – small size, flexibility, ease of use and so on. Given its rising popularity, web programmers need to master this software so that in case, a client want to hire a programmer, they may have the edge among their peers.
Our experienced coders at HireIndianProgrammers come up with this blogpost recommending some of the best Vue.js tools. If a small business wants to develop a simple integrated application with scope for expansion, all they need to do is to hire a coder who is well versed in Vue.js. Some clients hiring web developers would emphasise on certain niche functionalities and it is for this purpose, we come up this list of tools, libraries and plugins.
VuePress
VuePress is a great tool for those businesses hiring a developer that want to deploy a rich magazine of sorts. This tool was initially used for technical documentation but now, given its powerful blogging features and custom themes, web developers can design a rich single page application that has the provision to include even Vue code. This means that developers can develop a website akin to a Vue app.
Vuetify
Vuetify is a redefined framework for those clients hiring a programmer for developing a website with a material design. In short, it is a powerful UI component library with a massive collection of unique components. What can it be used to build? Businesses that want to build SPAs and mobile apps can hire a programmer who can make use of this tool. What makes it special is that it has both free and premium themes and also comes with great set of documentation and examples.
Eagle.js
Online businesses in the interactive learning segment hire a coder to develop web demos with animations, slides and presentations. Eagle.js takes on the mandate of providing freedom to develop highly complex and interactive presentations. One highlight of this tool is that it allows coders to replicate slides into other presentations with ease without having to start from scratch again.
Nuxt
This particular tool is used among web developers for developing modular applications on the server side. Some clients may hire a programmer to develop a very fluid web application. In such cases, programmers would do well to not get caught in an unnecessary tangle of optimising constantly. Better to leave it to Nuxt, for it proclaims to enable programmers to decisively develop an app with a no-frills framework.
Storybook
Finally, we have Storybook that we recommend for those clients looking to hire a dedicated developer for developing UI components in an elegant, simplified environment. Hiring a coder that makes use of Storybook also has an added incentive. It also allows a developer to manage and test these components. The development and showcase of the components happen in different environments, thereby removing the need to worry about dependencies. What’s more? Storybook is flexible enough to allow coders to customise using an API and add-ons with good features like exporting to other servers.
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Things to do before embarking on a Web Development Project
Getting a web developer on-board for your web development project without any untoward incidents is the dream for all clients. Who doesn’t want a smooth functioning throughout the software development cycle? Our experienced programmers at HireIndianProgrammers couldn’t agree more. But issues always creep up. After all, it is a human relationship. If proper mechanisms are not developed and put in place, web development can stop for all practical purposes.
Clients hiring a programmer or coder need to lay down some ground rules or a mechanism, if you will, before embarking on the said web development project. In this blogpost, our dedicated coders will go over some of the these to enable quality web development.
The Importance of Communication
The underlying core to all of these pre-development actions is communication. In fact, one of the first and foremost thing for clients hiring a developer is to plan the kind of communication between them and the developer. Work out the modalities with respect to communication such as – frequency, subject, stakeholders etc. Too much or too little communication can both hamper web development. Maintaining an effective communication can establish a good rapport needed for the successful execution of project.
The next thing to agree upon for clients hiringprogrammers, especially for large scale web development projects, is the stakeholders and management of data. Easy tracking of essential data is can boost efficient. For instance, developers and the client can maintain and access a spreadsheet on deadlines. As for stakeholder management, both the parties have to work out the who and what with respect to project requirements.
Staying on the Same Page
Hiring a programmer from a dedicated web development company means that the client is obviously properly stating the project details and project implementation procedure. This includes but is not limited to variables, milestone deadlines, scope, contract and most importantly payment structure. Many a project have languished in developmental hell because of misunderstandings over payments. To avoid such scenarios, our experienced coders exhort clients to state the above and get into clean agreements. With regard to timelines, clients hiring a developer will need to discuss together on the various milestones, their priorities including their testing time.
Finally, we can’t emphasise enough that micro-management in most cases doesn’t augur well for good web development. Clients hiring experienced programmers will do well to give web developers their freedom with ample room for assumptions. A fine balance between design and performance must be agreed and implemented.
You can now contact our Developer team at HireIndianProgrammers to hire our programmers for any web development project that you conceive. We assure you that you can hire a web developer from us for quality web development services throughout the software development cycle without any messy contracts, no questions asked.
The Ultimate Testing Tools For Responsive Design
As a team of dedicated developers and programmers, we understand the importance of testing – one of the crucial stages in the software development cycle. Over the past decade, various clients from the U.S and other markets have time and again hired the services of coders working at HireIndianProgrammers. With that experience, we know that websites and business websites in particular cater to different segments of people. In addition to that, the proliferation of the internet powered mobiles mean that client’s website and applications must run efficiently across devices.
In this blogpost, our programmers seek to list out the top tools to test your application with ease. All these tools satisfy certain criteria in some or the other way and have different levels of user control. Experiment around and opt for the tool that is most suitable for your needs.
Screenfly
With Screenfly, programmers can test their client’s website on any screen size including desktops, tablets and mobile phones etc; Developers can also add any custom size they want. The provision of simple tools to rotate, scroll and click makes this tool an easy recommendation for us. What’s more? If you are working as a team of developers hired by a big client, you can share your designs across and work on it together in their browser itself.
Responsive Design Checker
This is a great tool for programmers preferring to manually tweaking the controls. It displays your creation i.e website into a window under different orientations without really having to changing the browser size – be it mobile or desktops. Developers will also find it useful to take screenshots for later assessment.
Google Mobile-Friendly Test
SEO is no more a technical term. Tech savvy clients who are starting their online business are very much aware that their website must follow Google’s standards so that their page ranking may improve. Clients hiring dedicated programmers expect them to invariably incorporate it. With this tool, developers and coders can see for themselves the visibility of the webpages that they have developed. This tool is also useful for programmers in that it has the mechanism to recognise those issues and places where the website might be sluggish. It allows for easy fixes. However, it is limited to only mobile devices.
Responsive Web Design Testing Tool
The emphasis of this free tool is ease of use. This simple tool allows developers to type in the URL in the space provided and compare your output across orientations within a few clicks. Developers can also use this tool for testing in a set environment.
Lambda Test
With two versions of this tool available for programmers – the lite one and the paid one – LambdaTest is one of the better options in this list for the following reasons. In addition to making it possible for programmers to take screenshots, this tool can achieve a lot more. It allows the programmers to test in a holistic way checking all parameters – compatibility, user experience and so on in a real time scenario. The paid version enables programmers to debug errors, if any.
Designmodo Responsive Test
This tool is loaded with a lot of features and toggles. Another reason for developers to really check out this design testing tool is the clean interface. Programmers hired along tight deadlines will find this small thing to be a boon. The free tool also has colour accessibility options and bootstrap templates to improve the overall website design.
XRespond
XRespond allows programmers to check the consistency of their websites. This will be especially useful in cases where the client has a large base of customers of different kinds. For instance, suppose a client is hiring a programmer or hiring a developer to develop or improve an e-commerce website. Now, regular customers do online shopping from different devices, increasingly more of smartphones – be it android or iOS. In such a scenario, programmers would find it extremely useful to test their design responsiveness across devices at the same time.
Hope this article gave programmers of different calibre an idea on how to go about choosing a good tool for testing design responsiveness.
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How to Hire the Best Programmer for your Project?
In this highly competitive market, it is important for businesses to go the extra mile in order to make a mark in the long term. Software Programming plays a major underlying role in most of the businesses of the 21st century, irrespective of their size.
HireIndianProgrammers is a leading player in this domain that seeks to help businesses in their technical support, new launch of applications and so on. You can check out our work here.
Without further ado, let us take a look at how to go about hiring a Programmer.
Clear Vision
Remember, a quality software product is the result of the good nexus between the client and the developer. You need to therefore have a very clear idea of what you are trying to build (a visualisation of the end product) and communicate the same to the programmer. Communication is extremely important, to say the least, thereby providing clarity to the coder. A clear vision coupled with timely communication will inevitably result in quality execution – the end product.
Awareness of Technical Basics
You may not be a hands-on technical person but it would always be helpful for you to be aware of some of the technical basics and jargon in the computer programming domain. For example: Having a basic knowledge of software development cycle and certain programming concepts like PHP/Magento would help in understanding your product’s technical needs, helps you find a right talent and also provides some quality assurance once the project is completed.
You can start with reading up on some of the major programming languages and what they are specifically used for and you will be good to go. After all, hiring the right person for the right programming language is essential.
Timeframe
If you are clear in your business vision, then it also means you should have a proper timeframe in your mind. When do you want your application to be launched? Providing a timeframe will also invariably set in motion a goal-oriented process.
Evaluation of their Expertise
This can be done in several ways ranging from traditional programming tests followed by interviews or a qualitative analysis of potential candidates’ previous work. Chances are that the potential candidate may have already worked on a similar project on a previous assignment. This is where documentation will come in handy and it tells a lot of the candidate herself. This will further save time and you could probably test on the candidate’s soft skills. Asking them to talk about a prior project will give insights into their working style, thereby making your decision easier.
Agreement
Patience is key in the entire software development process. Convey your role expectations with respect to the project and agree on means of getting timely updates. Be as much involved as possible, provide clarity to your programmer and ask for demonstrations whenever possible.
On the other hand, Micromanagement is a big No. This will end up with leaving no space for your programmer.
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