In the past few years, the field of web development has grown really fast. In the early days of the internet, only a few resourceful people made websites for their businesses. But today, people do not take a business seriously unless it has its own website. The websites are considered the work portfolio of a company and help people trust them for their business. Due to the high demand for websites, the web development industry has developed new trends that make websites more relevant and interactive for the end-user. Though 2021 is about to end, it has been a year of new trends in the field of web development. Trends, which are already loved by people and are here to stay. These amazing web development trends of 2021 includes the following:
- Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence and machine learning is the most innovative and loved 2021 trend. Talking about AI in web development, it has put a similar impact on web development too and is in much demand. Chatbots and personalization through machine learning is the most commonly used feature of artificial intelligence. Websites use AI-powered chatbots to improve their customer service as machine learning help mimic human conversation to engage the end-user and find solutions for their queries. On the other hand, machine learning analyzes the end-user behavior based on the incoming data and following the patterns. Thus offer them relevant content to enhance their experience on the website.
2. Data and Cyber Security: Data is the most valuable asset today, and being on the internet, it is always vulnerable to different kinds of threats. By 2021, web developers have become more concerned about data security and safety from any cyber-attack. AI is the latest and the most reliable technology today, web development now combines AI in different forms to make the user data safer on the websites. Developers make use of AI-powered detectors to find out the threats and solutions to deal with them. Web development also includes some web frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails that help deal with many data and cyber security threats.
3. Voice Search: Voice search is a decade-old technology that has gained popularity in late 2020 and early 2021, as platforms like Google has offered voice search optimization for the websites. This way people do not have to write long keywords to search on Google, rather they can just speak and search whatever they want to on Google and see the relevant results. For this, the web developers need to optimize the websites according to voice search. The new trend of voice search optimization makes local SEO optimization even more effective and easier for the end-users as well.
4. Server-less Architecture: Cloud computing is already a hot trend in the IT industry. But it has become even more popular in the field of web development as the cloud has helped developers replace the huge servers with the cloud in the form of serverless architecture. Serverless computing has dismissed the need for server software and hardware handling for businesses. It helps in safeguarding the data, development, and deployment of the website and software at the cost of lesser human as well as machine resources consumption.
5. Single Page Application (SPA): The popularity of the JavaScript framework has also given a boost in the demand for SPA (Single Page Application). It reduces the load time for the websites when clicked on a particular link or button. It makes the websites behave exactly like an app, such that with better UX and better performance, the websites keep the users engaged. The SPAs also offer better SEO optimization and are less complex.
6. Multi-Experience: With the rise of smartphones, the responsive website design had become really popular, as the users were able to run the websites seamlessly on desktop, laptop, smartphone, and on the tabs. But with 2021, the same trend has gone even better. In 2021, we have seen people moving on to devices like smartwatches, AR/VR devices, voice assistants, and IoT devices, resulting in the popularity of multi-experience. Thus it becomes essential for web developers to build websites that run on all those devices helping businesses to easily communicate with their customers without depending on the devices.
7. Mobile-first Development: Smartphones have changed how people carry out things in their daily lives. The increase in the number of websites and apps is one of the impacts of the rise in the usage of smartphones. Almost every business is developing its websites and apps to connect with its customers. Since most of the work is done through the smartphone, designing websites basically according to a smartphone screen has become a trend. The programming is done in a mobile-first manner, such that websites and apps be ready to use on the desktop as well as a smartphone as soon the code is written.
8. API-first Development: API first development is basically used to enhance the user experience. In this approach, the focus is on developing reusable APIs to fulfill a certain task. This way the applications are built on micro-services and the developers can work parallelly on different APIs without bothering one another. This approach reduces the cost of development and is faster than the regular development process. The resultant apps are operational on every device and on every screen size.
Apart from these hot trends, push notifications, Web Assembly, Blockchain, Automation Testing on the cloud, etc. are some of the technologies that are also picking up the pace as the latest trends.
To know more about the discussed technologies and upcoming technology trends in web development, feel free to contact the team Xornor. Xornor Technologies is an India-based Top e-Learning web Development Company with years of experience in web and application development using the latest technologies.