An appealing and interactive user interface grabs the attention of many people and retains them for a long time. Frontend developers play a crucial role in creating outstanding user interfaces that make the best first impression and convey the right image of the brand in their minds. Hence, developers use an array of tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular JS, React and other toolsfor frontend web development that suit their project requirements and enable them to achieve their objectives.
Here is a checklist of 5 front-end technologies that developers use to help businesses get websites or digital products with appealing user interfaces.
- Angular JS
Angular JS is a JavaScript-based open-source framework that helps in creating single-page applications. With powerful features like two-way data binding facilitated by Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architectural setup, declarative UI, easy-to-use and consistent, reusable coding, Angular is the preferred choice for more than 44% of software developers.
- React
Developed by a team of software engineers in Facebook, React has emerged as one of the most popular tools for the development of UI and UI tools. Its features like the classic Model View Controller (MVC) architecture, Virtual DOM (Document Object Models), Better Code Stability and fast rendering makes it suitable for the development of various dashboard apps or other high-performing web apps.
- Vue.js
Vue.js is the most popular JavaScript-based progressive framework that developers love to use for the frontend web development of websites or apps. Being developers’ friendly, highly scalable and flexible, it brings together DOM and VueInstance data that makes UI development easier. Front end developers can easily use computing capabilities, and employ animation features making the UI more interactive, compelling and responsive. Power-packed with an array of in-built solutions, Vue.js saves a considerable amount of time and effort for developers.
- Ionic
When it comes to developing hybrid mobile apps, Ionic is one of the most preferred choices of web and app developers. Developed in 2013, Ionic is an npm module (node package manager) that facilitates in developing cross-platform compatible iOS and Android apps using a single codebase. The most important thing is that the latest version Ionic v.4 is framework-independent and marks a shift to using web components. You can deploy web components on any mobile browser and these components enable developers to use Ionic with any framework.
- CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) along with HTML and JavaScript is one of the foundational web technologies used for organizing the layout and visual presentation of a document written in a markup language. CSS3 an updated version of CSS 2 comes with modules like selectors, box model, animations, User Interface, multiple column layouts, text effects, and 2D/3D transformations enhance the flexibility to use the same.
The list of popular frontend web development tools is not all-inclusive as there are other tools, such as React Native, Flutter, npm, Tensorflow, Grunt, Meteor, Sass, Backbone, and CodePen. Developers can choose the most suitable front end development tools as per the project requirements to gain maximum leverage from these tools.
