Learning requirements for web development
Developing a web application includes building UI, routing user requests or user actions to application endpoints, translating the user input data, writing business logic for user requests, interacting with the data layer to read or write data, and serving the results back to users. All these development components may require different platforms and sometimes even use different programming languages for implementation. In this section, we will understand the components and tools required for web development, starting with web application frameworks or web frameworks.
Web frameworks
Developing web applications from scratch is time-consuming and tedious. To make it convenient for web developers, web application frameworks were introduced in the very early days of web development. Web frameworks provide a set of libraries, directory structures, reusable components, and deployment tools. Web frameworks typically follow an architecture that...
