The Top Frontend Web Development Trends for the Rest of 2021
Wed, 08 Dec 2021
It doesn't feel right to be talking about trends for
2021 as we approach the close of this tumultuous year. Typically, we wait until
the end of the year to begin projecting the trends that will dominate the
coming year while simultaneously looking back at the ones that dominated the
year before us. When it comes to front-end web development trends, though, it's
a good idea to keep an eye on them more frequently.
Because front-end web development trends come and go
so quickly, web development teams must stay on top of them in order to do their
jobs properly. That's why I thought it'd be useful to scout the terrain to see
what trends are gaining traction right now—and which ones will continue to
reign supreme throughout the rest of 2021.
1.
Gatsby's
Ascension
To better serve their customers, several businesses
are developing single-page apps (SPAs). SPAs are quick to develop, easy to use, and give a simple user experience. However, they have one flaw: they aren't
SEO-friendly. This is because the content on these pages is encased in a layer
of JavaScript, which makes crawling and indexing difficult for search engines.
While there are a few things you can do to improve
your SPA's SEO, web engineers have discovered that collaborating with Gatsby is
a wonderful approach to avoid this problem. For those who are unfamiliar,
Gatsby is a web development framework that combines React, GraphQL, and Webpack
into a single platform for static website development.
Pre-rendering capabilities that work around the
wrapping issue can be added to Gatsby. That's how Gatsby avoids having to
render anything on the server when a request comes in all it's done at the
application's development time. When a web crawler visits your SPA, it doesn't
access the AP directly; instead, it gets a fully rendered HTML copy saved on
the server, which makes crawling easier.
Such a method is both elegant and simple, and it
solves a long-standing difficulty for web developers. That's why Gatsby is
becoming a go-to framework for web development and why so many engineers are
using it.
2.
Micro-Frontend
Architecture's Popularity
Micro-frontend architecture is gradually gaining
traction and establishing itself as an excellent approach to work on the
frontend components of web apps and projects. This is not a matter of personal
preference. This architectural design has already been embraced by companies
such as Spotify, IKEA, American Express, and Starbucks. I have no doubt that
more will follow suit.
The benefits of this architecture are the cause for
the rising interest in it. Micro-frontend design simplifies development and
maintenance by breaking the frontend into separate, semi-independent components
that function loosely together.
This design is loosely based on microservices and
aims to provide the same benefits, mainly more agility, easier development, and
improved cooperation between developers working on different components. As a
result, web development teams who adopt this design benefit from a smaller
codebase, scalable projects, and independent deployment, which eliminates the
need to deal with large or complex components.
3.
The
Jamstack Firmly Establishes Its Position
Everyone seemed to be talking about Jamstack in
2019—and for good reason. Client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and pre-built
markup were combined in the current web development architecture to deliver a
better development experience with better performance and cheaper costs.
Jamstack continues to grow by impressing engineers
in web development teams. If you ask me, that's an easy sale. Jamstack apps are
more secure and give better performance by serving pre-built markup and assets
across a content distribution network. It also provides a better developer
experience, as frontend engineers can concentrate on the frontend without
having to worry about a monolithic architecture.
That's not all, though. The utilization of the CDN,
which dynamically compensates for any demand surges the app may have at any
given time, makes Jamstack projects highly scalable. And when you consider that
it's less expensive than other options (due to the hosting of static files),
it's easy to see why so many developers are jumping on board the Jamstack
bandwagon.
4.
React
takes the lead.
If there were any concerns regarding React's
popularity among JavaScript frameworks and libraries, they have been dispelled
in 2021. According to the most recent Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the use
of React is growing at an exponential rate. Indeed, React has eclipsed jQuery
as the most popular web framework, with 40% of engineers polled professing to
use it.
That's not all, though. According to the same
survey, one out of every four developers wants to start using React,
demonstrating the web development community's growing interest in this
technology.
Given such figures, it's difficult to imagine React
falling out of popularity anytime soon. In fact, it's very likely that its
popularity will continue to rise throughout the rest of 2021 and into 2022.
5.
The
King Is (Still) JavaScript
Finally, good old JavaScript has maintained its
dominance in the programming world. The results of the Stack Overflow Developer
Survey for 2021 are conclusive: The language is used by 64.96 percent of
engineers on a daily basis, putting it at the top of the list of the most
widely used languages. In reality, this is JavaScript's 9th year in a row at
the top, demonstrating that it is still the king.
"For most developers, programming is web
programming," according to Stack Overflow, which explains the results.
That mood will last until the end of 2021, if not longer. Given the language's
prevalence and complete supremacy over other languages, it's impossible not to
believe that.
Even Typescript's growing popularity and Google's
drive for Dart don't seem to be enough to dethrone JavaScript. To summarise,
we'll continue to use JavaScript to power many web development initiatives,
owing to the language's adaptability.
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