Why JavaScript frameworks are in high demand for web development
There are a plethora of programming languages available for web development such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++, and more. JavaScript has emerged as one of the most extensively used languages for web development. The uniqueness of JavaScript is that it runs directly on the browser. Most of the programming language runs on a server that displays simple web pages on the browser. JavaScript is used to create more dynamic and interactive items for the web page to enhance its features. According to a developers survey in 2019 by StackOverflow, JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language for the 7th year in a row, 95% of websites are built using JavaScript. Despite being originally designed for front-end development, JavaScript has made its way to the server-side of the website with the help of Node.js. React-native and Ionic are the most helpful frameworks for developing mobile applications using JavaScript. It is called a full-stack programming language with a variety of frameworks and libraries available for different tasks.
JavaScript frameworks are used extensively by web developers and tend to have huge growth in the future because it is highly modifiable with interactive web pages. In this blog, we are going to discuss some most in-demand and commonly used javascript frameworks and their features.
1. Angular JS
AngularJS is one of the most powerful, efficient, and open-source JavaScript frameworks. It was launched by Google for developing single-page web applications. According to Piyush Jain, Founder of Simpalm, a web design company in Washington DC, “Angular JS provides developers with the best conditions for combining JavaScript with HTML and CSS. There are about 500K websites built using Angular JS including PayPal, Netflix, Upwork, JetBlue, and more. It offers a variety of useful features such as MVVM (Model View View-Model) architecture, two-way data binding, single page application, HTML UI”.
2. React JS
React JS is a JavaScript framework helpful in building interactive and complex UI, it is maintained by Facebook. It is one of the most trending frameworks with over 300K websites implementing React in their UI including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and more. Some of the major features offered by React.JS are Virtual DOM, JSK, Unidirectional data flow, easy to import documents supported by React.
3. Vue JS
Vue JS is an open-source JavaScript framework for building creative UI. It is designed to be adaptable thus it becomes easy and simplified to integrate it with projects using other JavaScript frameworks. Currently over 36K websites rely on Vue for their website’s UI including StackOverflow, PlayStation, and more. It offers useful features such as HTML based templates, small in size, adaptability, and comprehensive and detailed documentation.
4. JQuery
JQuery is one of the oldest JavaScript frameworks, it has been around for about 12 years and is still useful. It is a fast and concise JavaScript library created in the year 2006 with the motto to write less and do more. It is a cross-platform JavaScript library used to simplify client-side scripting. According to Elijah Manor, software engineer at LeanKit, “JQuery is being used by 19 million websites, companies including WordPress, Facebook, Google, and IBM rely on it to provide a seamless web browsing experience. The community of its contributors is more diverse than any of the other JavaScript libraries. Major features provided by JQuery include DOM manipulation, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) support, and cross-browser support.”
5. Node JS
Node JS is an open-source server-side platform, it is built on Google Chrome’s V8 engine which enables Node JS library to execute codes in a faster way. Another reason for Node JS being faster is that all the APIs of Node JS libraries are asynchronous or non-blocking. It is being used by more than 84K websites. It is one of the most downloaded cross-platform frameworks for executing JavaScript code. It offers many useful features such as non-blocking APIs, Single-threaded models, fast execution of codes, and data streaming. It is used by most of the developers because it adjusts according to the need of the users.
6. EmberJS
Ember JS is an open-source JavaScript client-side framework that lets developers build scalable web applications by incorporating the best practices into the framework. Ember allows developers to use future JavaScript standards and transpile them to use in browsers with the help of Babel JavaScript transpiler. Basically, Babel is a JavaScript transpiler that lets developers incorporate next-generation JavaScript into their current code. Ember also provides Ember templates for building user interfaces which are written with handlebar templating language, it allows the creation of several features such as components, outlets, and expressions. Over 6K websites are using EmberJS including NASA.gov, TutorialsPoint.com, and more. The key features of EmberJS include Ember CLI, Ember templates, convention & configuration (C&C), and more.
7. Aurelia JS
Polymer JS is an open-source framework that is used in web application advancement. It comes with a highly descriptive and helpful documentation set. It supports multiple languages such as ECMAScript, and TypeScript which is helpful and gives you high flexibility. It also has an extensible HTML compiler that allows you to create custom HTML elements, add custom attributes to existing elements, and control template generation. More than 800 websites are making the use of Aurelia JS and it’s very helpful for developers to create interactive websites.
8. Meteor
Meteor is a free open-source JavaScript framework that allows rapid prototyping and produces cross-platform code. Meteor offers a full stack solution for developing and deploying web applications. It comes with several features such as reactive templates, automatic CSS etc. It reduces the complexity in building a login system for web applications with the help of Meteor packages. It is also helpful in creating real time applications, all the application layer from database to template gets updated automatically without refreshing the page and all the changes get saved automatically.
Wrapping up
JavaScript has endless demand in the future and it is extensively used by the majority of web developers worldwide including WordPress, Drupal, PHP, .Net web developers. The reasons for its popularity are multiple browser compatibility, speed, usability, and functionality. Another benefit of using JavaScript is that it streamlines the speed of load time of web pages while browsing on mobile. Any web developer should learn to use at least one or two javascript frameworks.
