We are
already in 2017 and some of use with close focus on the evolving trends in
development may have already started feeling vibrant changes. It is time to
grab your bucket of chocolates that is sitting in your cupboard and have some.
A good idea would be to focus on what’s in and what’s out while making an
attempt to be healthy.
This
approach will help you in making life easier for yourself if you are an active
performer in the highly poised and competitive markets of UAE. No matter how
advanced technology gets, there are some markets that will always be ready to
welcome such changes, UAE is one of them.
The
world of web development UAE is blessed with a blend that
comprises talents from all over the world which makes it easy to adapt
advancements accordingly. Let’s have look into the makeshifts that have already
taken place and those that may in the process of doing so:
Decoupled (Headless) CMSs:
It
could be one of the highly innovative concepts to web development process
throughout and beyond 2017. Decoupling the content management system from the
front end perspective helps in removing the ties associated with the view
framework that is provided inside conventional frameworks. This is done simply
by offering the content information through a RESTful API.
This
information or data is obtainable everywhere and may be linked with any
front-end development process enabling never ending possibilities. There are
some advantages and disadvantages associated with this ideology which will be
discussed in some other blog as the core focus in this piece of writing is on
the makeshifts that are taking place in the domain of development.
Time to say farewell to the hamburger menus:
One may
have noticed the menus that are available within mobile designs known as
hamburger because of parallel lines that reside on one another and gives the
look of a hamburger. This style has been around for quite some time now; it can
be classified as useable but not a fully perfect solution to be honest.
Expert
programmers and developers classify it a complex item that is not easily
discoverable by all the users, especially those that are not very comfortable
while dealing with computers and internet. Experimentation therefore is
expected to boost up during 2017 so as to see if novel and innovative methods
can be introduced that may take over the proceedings from the hamburger menus.
Swerve from the grid:
Grid
has been used in front end development for years and it has been up to the task
and expectations all that time. Experts however are of the view that changes
have started to take place and soon we may see approaches that are different in
nature. Deviation in the world of building blocks of a website or its core
elements may be upgraded or replaced with newer versions so as to ensure that
services and features section of a website becomes further prominent.
Embrace Yarn
During
the past couple of years or so, developers have become very much reliant on
packaging managers in order to keep their dev based dependencies within the
threshold. NPM and Bower are two good examples that can be used here, however
they have some flaws associated with them such as single registries, nested
dependencies and no offline availability.
Enter
Yarn is yet another example that can be used here, it was developed by Facebook
in associated with Google and some others, Yarn utilizes both the NPM and Bower
registries to source packages however critically offers a plain reliance
framework offering one with priceless disk space availability. It also helps
one in offline installations with the help of package caching plus parallel
setups, i.e. if a package does not response, it won’t cause delays or stoppages
in the entire installation process.
Say Hello to novel CSS features:
2017
will be backed strongly with some appealing and novel CCS features added into
users’ browsers. Variables associated with CSS appear to be a good addition. Varying
slightly in nature that can be defined in PostCSS and SCSS as they are the
pre-processors, the variables associated with CSS can be altered ‘on-the-fly’
by using the feature of automatic browser repainting after the values have been
altered.
A good
example here would be an altering in color at a breakpoint of media query.
Variables associated with CCS may in addition be changed, tweaked and accessed
in JS as well differently from the variables that are defined in pre-processed
CSS.
The
concluding phases of 2017 may see the initiation of grid based layouts with an
intention to make things smoother for the forthcoming updates for Firefox and
Chrome. This layout is stunning in nature as it will change the ways upside
down in which developers build website and web pages.
CSS
originally evolved from tables for the sake of a smooth layout, it enabled
developers to get the block elements inline however developers never took it as
a complete solution. Developers now can carry out complex tasks with the help
of Grid layout as it has been designed particularly to address such tasks in an
efficient and development friendly manner.
Farewell to JQuery?
JQuery
is great and have been a useful resource, but is it really time to say farewell
to it? With the passage of time and influx of new arrivals JQuery may also be
outdone by the new JS standard that is ES2016 in association with backwards
compatibility tools for example Babel, several of the tools offered by JQuery
are not required always as they can be written using Vanilla JS with ease.
There
are further advancements coming our way in ES2017 for example improved
asynchronous function code that appear to be a further feasible alternative to
syntax devoid of the supplementary overhead of JQuery library.
No
matter what the trends are like, being an operator in complex markets, you will
need to stay on top of all the website related aspects. To ensure that you
maintain a strong grip, you will need to look for a web development UAE based
company that can provide with solutions that are in line with the latest
technological trends and fits well with the local markets’ culture as that will
enable your website to settle well and make an appealing impression right from
the word go.
