What Are The Emerging Web Technologies?
We all need to keep up-to-date with the latest web technologies.
Running a small business leaves very little time for research, especially into technology trends. We have compiled these articles to assist small businesses in keeping to date with new and emerging website technologies.
So what are the emerging web technologies?
[1]Over the past few years, many new frontend technologies have leaked onto the market. The web design landscape has shifted radically, and it’s now much easier and much more technical to build websites.
I’m always interested in the latest tools & best practices because today’s new tools often become the must-use tools of tomorrow.
I want to share what I believe are the top 10 most prominent emerging tools for web developers. These tools aren’t mandatory for a web dev workflow. But they can improve the speed and codebase of how you build your websites.
1. Web Components
You may have heard this term thrown around but haven’t really looked into the details. Web Components are a new style of elements for HTML5 that are working their way through the W3C standards committee.
These components allow you to make custom reusable elements for dynamic page features like tabbed widgets, image sliders, and dropdown menus. Rather than building an entire dropdown menu with unordered lists, you’ll eventually be able to use a <dropdown> tag(or something similar).
On the Web Components main site, you can find many practical examples but very little explanation as to why this is useful. If you’re a bit confused, check out this guide full of tips and predictions for the future.
Right now, it’s a bit too early to use Web Components in real projects. But this may change in a few years. That’s why I think all web developers should at least familiarize themselves with web components so that they’re ready to use them once the W3C fully adopts the specs.
2. Polymer
Once you’re familiar with Web Components, you might want a library like Polymer to help you get started. Google spearheads this project, and it’s an open-source initiative to create standardized Web Components.
This library makes development easier if you’re working with the Web Components API. You get pre-built elements for embedding features like videos, sliders, and even Google Maps widgets.
The goal of Polymer is modularization. That’s why you can even create your own widgets based on the Web Components API. This way, you can add multiple widgets to the same page without re-writing the same block of code.
Polymer should go hand-in-hand with Web Components, and these two technologies are dramatically changing how we modularize websites.
3. AMP
Google is always trying to improve user experience and make browsing the web a much simpler task. The Accelerated Mobile Pages project(or AMP for short) allows Google simplifies any webpage into a standard template on mobile devices that make certain page optimized for reading.
You add a bit of code onto your page and let Google do the rest. If your site is AMP optimized, it’ll load faster, pre-fetch images/videos, and streamline the reading experience, so it behaves more like a native application.
With mobile users growing every year, this is a technology worth watching. It doesn’t work for super interactive websites, but the AMP technology might revolutionize mobile web consumption for blogs and newspapers.
4. Gulp
Automation is the key to reducing menial labor and building projects in record time. With a task runner like Gulp, it’s so much easier to automate the annoying tasks so you can focus on what you do best: create awesome websites.
Gulp can compile your Sass into CSS, add templates or browser hacks into your code, and auto-refresh pages after making changes to the code. It can do a lot more, too, and this guide is an excellent place to get started.
5. TypeScript
Google’s frontend framework AngularJS has recently adopted TypeScript as its preferred scripting language. This makes TS even more alluring because it can save you time writing basic scripts for the web and detailed Angular projects.
TypeScript actually isn’t a new language but rather a superset of JavaScript. So if you already know JS, then you’ll have an easy time learning TS. It can help you work with ES6-style syntax but without choosing from different compilers.
If you’re looking for the next stage of JavaScript, then you should definitely look into TypeScript. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed, and once you get used to the workflow, it can become the most powerful scripting tool in your arsenal.
6. Three.js
If you’ve followed the hype of WebGL and 2D/3D web graphics, then you should know about Three.js. It is the #1 most powerful JS-based rendering engine you can use for web graphics.
I’ll admit those very few websites actually need 2D or 3D graphics online. But these cases are growing, and this is easily one of the best JavaScript libraries you can use for creating detailed canvas elements and data charts.
Best of all, Three.js is free and open-source, so it’s constantly being improved alongside the WebGL API.
7. [2]WebAssembly
WebAssembly is another huge accomplishment in the web improvement world. This is viewed as the closest companion of JavaScript, with some announcing the up and coming age of Javascript, which is a little and quick parallel configuration that guarantees close local execution for web applications. WebAssembly can assist designers with building rapid web applications that are especially required in games, music, CAD applications, video altering, and transferring.
8. Movement User Interface (UI) Design
Clients today request remarkable client experience. A better UI plan that is simple than use with natural, safe data progression is the mystery of drawing in target crowds. Site pages created with appealing and intuitive components and intriguing page format will have clients running to website pages and convey expanded harp time on site pages. Innovative enlivened headers and pennants, vivified outlines, foundation liveliness, and drift impacts offer life to pages and draw in clients are some of the best technology to build a website.
9. Dynamic Web Applications (PWA)
Dynamic Web Applications is the following enormous thing in the realm of versatile Apps and web development solutions. It’s an application that can be gotten to without downloading a portable application. PWA gives applications like understanding to clients directly in their programs through its advanced web capacities. This is slanting and picking up its force due to its ability to work disconnected and match up substance to different gadgets.
10. Blockchain
Blockchain has changed advancement effectiveness and changed security and information innovations. Blockchain is an appropriate record innovation and makes it conceivable to store information all around on various workers. Allowing everyone on the system see every other person’s entrances in near-continuous. Making it inconceivable for clients to change or control the system.
11. Single Page Applications (SPA)
A solitary page application is a web application or site that interfaces with the client by progressively changing the current page instead of stacking whole new pages from a worker. This methodology will abstain from intruding on client collaboration between sequential pages. SPA saves guests from the troublesome route and twirling menus and adjusts to any gadget.
12. VR and AR
Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual reality (VR) advancements look encouraging later on because of their capability to change how associations happen among the sites. There are different top web development companies like Google, Samsung, and Microsoft, spending a ton of their income on these most recent advances.
You can submerge your clients in the virtual world with the assistance of computer-generated reality innovation. Then again, Augmented Reality (AR) shows the vision of a virtual world in this genuine world while significantly improving the client experience.
VR and AR have surpassed the constraints of versatile applications. Their aggregate market is evaluated to add up to about US $ 215 billion constantly in 2021.
13. [3]The ‘internet of things
Whereas the internet-connected information, the “internet of things” refers to inter-connectivity being incorporated into more products, devices, appliances, and processes. Each IoT-connected item has an embedded computing system that can be controlled or provides information to other devices or websites via the existing internet. These can be home appliances, medical monitoring devices, electronic transponders, and countless other things that use data or sensors.
Cisco predicts one million new connections per hour will be added to the internet of things by 2020, and Gartner forecasts nearly 20 billion devices will be connected by then. 2018 could be a breakout year for the internet of things devices, with uses going far beyond controlling the thermostat and ordering supplies to deployments in health care, manufacturing, and other business products and workflows requiring real-time analytics.
Due to the complexity of the internet of things platform, most companies will not want to create one from scratch. Instead, it is more efficient to use a pre-built platform, develop specifically for the analytics tier, processes data, and the end-user tier, which the consumer uses to interact with the organization. Additionally, websites that display the usage information and allow people to control the devices will be needed.
14. Customer service chatbots
Customer service chatbots (those pop-up chat boxes that allow users to get real-time help) are a smart investment with a discernible ROI. Customers want problems to be addressed immediately. Instead of staffing a 24/7 customer service department, companies and organizations add chatbots to their sites to assist customers and improve processes without human help. If not there yet, websites will be getting a chatbot to answer questions, direct people to the appropriate page, help them to select a product, and proceed to checkout. Eventually, customers will prefer websites where they know help is instantly available. Gartner predicts that 85 percent of customer interaction will take place without the involvement of humans by 2020.
Chatbots are becoming increasingly sophisticated. With natural-language processing, they connect with customers in everyday language, be programmed to take on a company’s brand personality, and use artificial intelligence to connect with users and quickly discern how to help them.
Conclusion:
It is best to at least have an overview of where Website Technology is heading so you can make decisions before it is too late. If you need help determining if your website is out of data or if new website technologies could improve your website presence, please call hughesagency.ca today.
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