Frontend & Backend Development
1. Front-End Development
Front-end development focuses on the user-facing side (client side) of a website. With client-side development, we ensure that visitors can easily interact with and navigate sites by using programming languages, design skills, and other tools. This is where we produce the drop-down menus, layouts, and designs for websites.
With front-end development, a number of computer programming languages like JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are involved while designing the websites. Each language serves a unique purpose. HTML lays out the site's content and structure, CSS adds design features, and JavaScript creates advanced interactive features. Less commonly, front-end devs know other programming languages like Python, PHP, or Ruby.
Our front-end developers have expertise in using frameworks and libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and EmberJS. Frameworks ensure that content appears correctly on all devices, while libraries condense code into smaller, time-saving packages. Front-end devs may also use graphic design programs like Photoshop or Sketch, along with code editing tools like Notepad or Eclipse.
We have technical expertise and creativity required to ensure websites' user interfaces look correct and function properly. The team of front-end devs work with back-end developers, designers, and user experience analysts while working on a project.
Below are the top technologies we mostly use in frontend development:
- HTML: HTML is the standard programming language for implementing a webpage's general content and structure.
- CSS: we use CSS to create a webpage's colors, style, layout, and fonts. We also use CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS to speed up the development process.
- JavaScript: Front-end developers use JavaScript for sites that use interactive features like videos, audio, animations, and games. JavaScript includes libraries with extensions and plugins to run faster on websites.
- Graphic Design: when it comes to front-end development, we can't leave graphic design (mainly with the use of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects). The graphic design software help us to creatively design computer graphics including vector objects and images which are displayed to the user screen when accessing the website.
2. Back-End Development
Our back-end devs focus on the server side of websites with the use of technical skills to perform the behind-the-scenes work that creates a website's structure and overall functionality, allowing a site's front end to exist. This is where we create a site's operations, databases, and application programming interface (API).
The back end includes an application, server, and database. Computer users often do not see the elements of back-end development, which remain below the hood of a website.
Our back-end developers have advanced experience in server-side programming languages like Java, Python, and Ruby to build applications. We use tools like SQL Server and Oracle to store, organize, and change data. Our expertise also rely on working with PHP frameworks, version control software, and debugging back-end systems and applications.