Basic Web Development Languages
Tags: javascript, webdev, html, css
Published: 2020-09-26 00:07:03

   <p>Web development as the core aspect of a website is no doubt broad, but when broken down it can be easily tackled with everyone taking their parts.</p>
<p><I>Web development</I> has three different categories i.e</p>
<p><up><li><strong>Front-End/Client-Side Web Development.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Back-End/Server-side Web Development.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Full-stack Web Development.</strong></li></up</p>
<p>So I will categorize each language to the category of which they belong in web development.</p>
<p>Follow me.</p>
<h4><strong>Front-end web development Languages:</strong></h4>
   <p><up><li><strong>Markup Languages</strong>: Markup languages are purely about the pages/contents on websites. With markup languages, you can display a “Hello World” or more on your website. They contain the page’s semantic content and structures.</li></ul><p>
<p>HTML5 is the updated and current version of HTML, I recommend you learn it. I will let you know where to learn it from later in this article.</p>
<p><up><li><strong>Style Sheets</strong>: Style sheets are computer languages used to style web pages/contents. With style sheets, you can change the content’s color, font, size, etc. You can also add animations in a website with style sheets</li></ul></p>
<p><strong>Examples of style sheets are</strong></p>
<p><ul><li>Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),</li><li>Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass) etc.</li></ul></p>
<p>CSS is foremost popular and easy to learn. Where and how to learn it will be stated later in this article.</p>
<p><ul><li><strong>Scripting Languages</strong>: Scripting languages contains a series of commands within a file that is capable of being executed without being compiled. Sounds complex but this is it, scripting languages control the behavior of web pages/contents.</p>
<p><strong>Examples of scripting languages are</strong></p>
<p><ul><li>Actionscript,</li>
<li>JavaScript,</li>
<li>Dart,</li>
<li>TypeScript etc.</li></ul></p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: <I>Scripting languages</I> are the only programming languages in all of the front-end web development languages. The others can be referred to generally as just languages or computer languages. When you dive deeper, you will know more about this.</p>
<p>I recommend learning JavaScript or Typescript. But if you must go for TypeScript, then try getting acquainted with JavaScript.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, to be a front-end web developer, languages you should know are HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript, with just these three; you will flourish in front-end web development.</p>
<h4>Back-End Web Development Languages:</h4>
<p>Not many languages are necessary to learn here; with the knowledge of JavaScript you can become a successful back-end developer, you just need to be exposed to run-time environments like <strong>NodeJs</strong> and <strong>Deno</strong> as well as a lot of packages to learn.</p>
<p>More on these run-time environments will be discussed in the future.</p>
<p>Other languages (some of which are Server-Side scripting languages) for back-end web developers are<p>
<p><ul><li>PHP,</li>
<li>SQL,</li>
<li>Java,</li>
<li>Python,</li>
<li>Ruby etc.</li></ul></p>
<p><strong>In conclusion</strong>, when you know what kind of web developer you want to be, with this article you will know what to learn and what not to learn.</p>
<p>As a front-end developer you should be familiar with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript basically.</p>
<p>As a back-end developer you should be familiar with PHP if not NodeJs, Python, or any other server-side scripting language, you should also be familiar with some database languages like SQL.</p>
<p>As a full-stack developer, well you need to be familiar with both front-end and back-end languages.</p>
<p>So that's it guys, don't forget to hit the like button and leave a comment. See you next time, until then; "<strong>Keep Coding </strong>❤️"</p>