Top Web Application Development Tools to Build a Website
By: A Smith
Tags: Tools For Design, Development, Website Development, Web Design, Web Development

The world of technology is changing at a rapid pace. Gone are those days when web developers used to burn midnight oil amidst hard drives of a stack of servers. While that may have been true almost a decade ago, these days it is hardly the case. Fast forward to today, there are a plethora of tools to streamline the web development process.

Web development in 2020 is generally done with lots of planning and collaboration between teams, and it has come out of the basement and into the light of day.

To facilitate all activity, there are plenty of web development tools to do the heavy lifting of planning, optimizing and coding a website.

Businesses are staying ahead in the league to provide customers and clients with robust web solutions. With more and more companies creating an active online virtual presence, it becomes necessary to use tools to fasten the development work. While there are several options for site owners to design and develop sites, there is an alternate option to hire a web developer.

Let’s go through the best choices to get your site up and running, and growing traffic in a jiffy.

Collaboration Tools

Slack: Team Messaging app with a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

Trello: Flexible and way to organize everything visually with anything, as well as use as KeyCDN.

Glip: Messaging real-time with integrated task management, video conferencing, shared calendars and more.

Asana: Team collaboration tool to track work and results.

Jira: Built for every member of the software team to plan, track, and release great software or web applications.

Web Application Frameworks

Web Application Framework aka “web framework” is a software framework specifically designed to support web applications development such as web services, web resources and web APIs. To put in simple terms libraries that help you develop your application faster and smarter!

Ruby: A web-application framework to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC).

AngularJS: JavaScript-based open-source front-end web framework to address several challenges faced in developing single-page applications

Ember.js: Open-source JavaScript web framework, based on the Model–view–ViewModel pattern.

Express: Free and open source, web application framework for Node.js, released under the MIT License for building web applications and APIs.

Meteor: Open-source isomorphic JavaScript web framework written with Node.js. Meteor gives options for rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform code.

ASP.net: Open-source server-side web application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages developed and backed by Microsoft to build dynamic web sites, applications and services.

Laravel: Free, open-source PHP web framework for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Zend: Open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP.

Symfony: Reusable PHP components and a web application framework.

CakePHP: PHP framework highly popular to build web applications simpler, faster and require less code.

Package Managers

Package managers track the packages you use and make sure they are up to date and the specific version that you need.

npm: Node package manager for JavaScript helps to create public packages, publish updates, audit your dependencies, and more.

Grunt: JavaScript task runner, a tool used to automatically perform frequent tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting. Use Grunt to automate just about anything.

Gulp: Platform-agnostic and simple, Gulp toolkit automates mundane and time-consuming tasks in the development workflow. Integrations are built into all IDEs, and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms.

Bower: A web package manager to effectively manage components that contain HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts or even image files.

Programming Languages

Programming language is a formal constructed language specifically built to communicate with a computer and create programs aimed at controlling the behaviour.

PHP: Server scripting language and a powerful tool for making dynamic and interactive Web pages.

NodeJS: Based on V8, NodeJS is an Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment. Open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment to execute JavaScript code outside of a browser.

JavaScript: Language of HTML and the web.

Python: Programming language to allow working quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

Ruby: Dynamic, open-source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity.

Golang: Open source programming language to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

TypeScript: Open source programming language which is a superset of JavaScript which compiles to plain JavaScript

Database

MySQL: It is considered one of the most popular open-source databases across the globe. An open-source relational database management system (RDBMS), MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is also available under a variety of proprietary licenses.

MongoDB: It is a cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON documents with the schema.

Redis: Open source, in-memory data structure store functioning as a database, cache and message broker.

PostgreSQL: Robust and high power open source object-relational database system

Prototyping Tools

SKETCH (MACOS ONLY)

Highly popular among designers, Sketch is a digital design platform. This platform includes Precision, the Inspector, Tools, Exporting, Native, and Mirror. If we take into account numbers, there are millions of designers using Sketch to realize their ideas into products. This platform gives designers the power to share and collaborate on designs, as well as designing with Inspector. This is also an option to seamlessly connect all devices for real-time sharing or collaboration.

INVISION

Ranked among one of the most preferred tools, Invision is adept for drawing and prototyping, providing the advance features to store all the projects in the cloud. It ensures your data is safe and nothing will be lost in transit due to the hardware breakdown. InVision is compatible with a wide range of tools like Trello, Basecamp, Jira, Dropbox, and Slack.

FIGMA

As a Browser-based tool, Figma allows real-time collaboration; with vector tools with the capability of illustration, comprehensive prototyping, and code generation.

Multiplayer co-editing

Style libraries to simplify the creation and update design system

Integration with Principle (Mac-only)

Web API connecting Figma to several tools, scripts, and web apps.

MOCKFLOW

MockFlow is a suite of applications that assists in tasks associated with a typical project process. WireframePro app is a perfect option for prototyping, especially if you’re exploring and testing new ideas.

Create new wireframes easily with MockFlow.

Work on initial ideas to build basic layouts quickly to get thoughts into a presentable form.

Plan better UI by rapidly sketching interface layouts in a short time without any complexity.

Finally

We hope these tools help you speed up the web application development process. If you want to include any device, do post a comment below.