Contents Overview
Choosing the right technology for web development is one of the most important decisions when building a website or application.. Modern websites are built using innumerable technologies. You need not be an expert in any of this technology to manage your website project properly, but it is always better to have a good idea of the basics of the available technologies and their pros and cons in order to understand the impact they will have on your website in the long term.
There is no “right technology” for building a website. Your selection decision depends on many factors like your development team’s experience, licensing costs, maintainability, performance, scalability etc. The development team should be able to recommend a web stack that best suits your requirement.
How to Choose the Right Technology for Web Development
What is a web stack? A web stack is a combination of components or technologies needed to deliver a web application. Most of the web applications fall into two categories, i.e. linux based and windows based web applications. A web stack will have the below components
- Platform ( Eg- WordPress, Joomla, Shopify etc)
- Programming language for front end( HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- Javascript frameworks.(Angular, React JS, Vue JS etc)
- Backend technologies(Node JS, Python, PHP, Java, ASP.net, Ruby etc)
- Database( MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL databases like MongoDB)
- Web server (Apache, IIS, Nginx etc)
- Operating system (Linux, Windows)
Selecting the right webstack for your application is a decision which requires much thought, research and consultation.
Below mentioned are a few points that can be taken into consideration before selecting the right stack.
Complexity and size of the project: The tech stack required for a small sized project will be different from the stack required for a medium sized project or large sized project.Besides the size of the project the complexity of the project is also taken into consideration before identifying the programming language to be used.
System Load requirements: Different applications will have different processing loads.We need to compare the project’s prospective processing loads with the capacity of the technology stack and select the stack that can meet the need.
Security: This is a very important aspect to be considered before selecting the right technology stack. You don’t want to run your project that is not well secured and can be hacked or tampered externally.
Flexibility & Scalability: Technology is changing day by day. You should be aware of the latest trends in web development and think about whether it is worth it to use the technology in your project so that the selected technology is adaptable for the relevant changes in future.
Find successful projects using the same stack: Before selecting the technology stack it is important to research and identify the successful brands who have used the same technology stack for their products. If we can find some successful products in the same business or domain, that will give us confidence to select the same stack
Qualification/ Skills of development team: You would need to consider the qualification and skills of your development team in running the tech stack. If they don’t know how to execute in the selected tech stack, then it would be a mismatch problem.
Project Timeline: The selected tech stack should meet your product’s as well as your product developers’ timeline. Project timeline plays an important role in determining the development stack to choose.
Some Popular web site development stacks
MEAN stack: The selected tech stack should meet your product’s as well as your product developers’ timeline. Project timeline plays an important role in determining the development stack to choose.
MERN stack: The MERN stack is similar to the MEAN stack and it uses ReactJS in front end and NodeJS in backend. It is now commonly used in high end single page applications.
LAMP: LAMP is traditionally and most commonly used stack for website development.It is used to run PHP applications and host in linux environments. The components are (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
Python Django: This stack is used to build quick, scalable and secure web applications. It uses python language and django framework for backend development.
Java: Java is commonly used to build complex, scalable web applications . Java is perfect for developing large web applications because of its ability to communicate with a large number of systems.
Conclusion
In short, selecting the best technology for your business can make it a success in the long run. It is obvious that everyone wants to get the best available services for the best price. You need to keep in mind that bigger price does not mean better quality. Select a technology that satisfies your product requirements, so that the product can succeed for a longer period of time.
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