Front-end technologies for Wonderful User Experience through Websites

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HTML 5
“It is a markup language used for describing contents and appearance of web pages. It is fifth
and latest version of HTML.”
Provides great graphics and visual images by using canvas elements.
Display videos on web pages without third party plugins.
Local storage to accommodate large amount of information.
Supports offline mode website.
It can provide geographical location of website users.
Helps in SEO through semantic enrichment

JavaScript
“Script language and Object oriented programming language are used to create interactive
features within web browsers.”
No need to install any flash plugin.
Can be used on client side as well as on server side.
Functional programming language.
Object oriented language.

jQuery UI
“It is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets and themes built on top of
jQuery Javascript Library.”
Its process for designing is open for the community.
It makes customization very easy with flexible stylings and themes.
All widgets are designed so as to provide elegant visual and interaction design.
The jQuery UI API is very simple and intuitive.
Widgets make it possible to interact with websites even if the browser does not support javascript.
Widgets are even accessible to JS capable users who have disabilities like blindness or deafness.

Ajax
“It is Asynchronous Javascript and XML used for creating interactive web applications that
processes user request immediately.”
Independent of server technology.
Makes webpage faster.
No need to reload the complete website by pushing submit buttons.
Sends only important information on the webpage to the server to develop faster and more interactive
web applications.

jQuery
“Fast, small and feature rich javascript library which makes manipulation, event handling,
animations and ajax much simpler.”
Helps using ajax technology.
Built-in animation effects.
Cross browser support.
Very lightweight library.
Capture variety of events like user clicking on a link.
Extensibility through plugins.
Effects and animations.
JSON parsing.
Encourages separation of JS and HTML.

CSS
“Cascading Style Sheet is a style sheet language which adds value to presentation of a document
by adding fonts, color, background images, height, width, lines, margins and many more.”
Creats animations using transition declaration and @keyframe rule.
Clean layouts and good stylesheets by using advanced selectors.
Use less HTML by using pseudo elements.
Smooth transition between colors using gradients.
Embed beautiful fonts by simply including a stylesheet.
Build responsive websites with the help of media queries.

Semantic UI
“The technology to make the web more intelligent and intuitive about how to serve user’s needs.”
Enables web page data to be understood by computers by extending web documents to data.
Aggregates large amount of data.
Understands relationships between pieces of contents.
Organises data by building vocabularies (OWL) and knowledge organisation system (SKOS).
Its query language SPARQL goes hand in hand with databases.

UI KIT
“It is most often used framework to develop iOS applications. It is equivalent of Application Kit
framework for OS X development.”
Open source framework to make the web look good.
Used to write well-structured and extendable codes with the help of LESS and SASS.
Contains simple to use and customize HTML, CSS and JS components.
Provides great experience for mobiles and tablets using its mobile first approach.

Material Design
“A UI kit developed by google that acts as a design language.”
Uses grid-based layouts, transitions, animations, padding and depth effects.
It acts as a visual language which involves principles of good design.
It develops a single underlying system which provides a unified experience across all platforms and
device sizes.
It is a three dimensional environment containing light, material and cast shadows.

Bootstrap
“It is free and open source front end web framework for designing responsive websites and
applications.”
Speeds up development process because of readymade blocks of code, cross-browser functionality
and CSS-Less functionality.
Creates mobile ready websites easily using ready made classes.
Pairs designers with developers.
Customizable i.e developers have choice to download custom version of bootstrap by selecting the
features they want.
It can be simply integrated with other platforms and frameworks on existing sites.

Vue.Js
“It is a JavaScript library for building interactive web interfaces.”
Very simple in terms of API and design.
Very flexible to structure an APP the way one wants.
Provides benefits of reactive data binding and composable view components with an simple API.
Builds large “Single page applications” using various tools and applications.

AngularJs
“It is an open source web application framework for dynamic web pages.”
Hides most of the code of web application using two way data binding.
Application is easier to develop using dependency injection subsystem.
Helps to create custom widgets and decorate elements using directives.
Makes testing of applications very easy.
Follows Model-View-Controller architecture.
Creates well-defined and organised structure using modules.
Modifies data before presenting it to users using filters.

React JS
“An open source javascript library to provide a clear view of data in form of HTML.”
Gets easily adopted with ease and convenience.
Free and open source.
Expands a function’s behaviour by simply wrapping it in another function by using decorators.
Server side communication.
Easily manage data across the whole application through FLUX library.
Allows one to save keystrokes and load a subset of required module through destructive assignments.

Phonegap
“Software development framework used to develop mobile applications.”
Open source and free.
Allows user to develop apps using standard web APIs in all major mobile OS.
Involves HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Apps are future-proofed to work with browsers as they evolve.
Allows to create app for each of the platform that one choose using a single code base.

Ionic
“It is a free and open source SDK for mobile app development.”
It provides effective tools and libraries of HTML5, CSS and JS components.
It provides great speed on all latest mobile devices by including practices like virtual DOM rendering,
hardware accelerated transition and touch-optimized gestures.
It is built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova.
It is clean, simple and beautifully designed on all mobile devices and platform.
It allows to share the app with anyone without uploading it on playstore.
It provides hundreds of quality templates, add-ons and themes.

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