2021 Web Development Trends

Latest web development tech & trends

Technology Image Websites & web apps are at the forefront of promoting your business & creativity to your clients. With the increasing demand for web development, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic that encouraged more internet traffic than ever before, it’s essential to keep up with the web development trends and best practices. Here are a few top web development trends that are growing in 2021 with a positive outlook.

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Image Artificial Intelligence (AI) is adopting advanced hardware/software to allow machines to be “smart.” AI is a broad term, and there are many applications of it. Machine learning is a specialized field of AI to leverage the computer’s ability to process a lot of data and correct the prediction model over time.

Here are some examples:

  • Recommendation Engines
    • Have you ever wondered how services like Amazon or Netflix recommend their selection of products that are relevant to you? It’s by letting their machine learning system gather your input data (which titles/listings you click, your purchase preferences, etc.) and build a model that predicts items that match your interest.
  • Targeted Emails
    • Developers can now employ machine learning to deliver more personalized marketing campaigns. It can send geographic, time, and personal interest aware contents to users to maximize the conversion rate.
  • Fraud Detection
  • Identifying Trends



Accelerated Mobile Pages & Progress Web Apps

Speed Image Google search engine ranks speedy websites higher. Search Engine Optimization is crucial to making sure that your business/creative-content is visible to others, and a slow website doesn’t help. Enter Progressive Web Apps (PWA). This technology leverages service worker scripts that handle the network requests and resources caching. Developers can use this to create fast webpages and even offer offline experiences. PWA enables network independent, safe, and responsive web development.

Edge Computing

Proximity Image With the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, websites are becoming interfaces to interact with IoT devices/data. IoT data is numberless & it comes from various places. Hence, the proximity to the data becomes vital since a shorter distance to transfer/process the data implies more throughput & less latency to interact with them. Latency sensitive parts of websites are implemented in edge nodes (provided by cloud computing services) to improve speed and reliability.

Blockchain

Bitcoin Image Blockchain is a method of keeping records of transactions. It’s a secure-by-design way of storing data. A peer-to-peer network validates a block (transaction data), and once it passes, it’s added to the distributed ledger. At this point, the block remains as part of the chain forever, and it’s not modifiable. It’s the core technology of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The blockchain is a useful technology as a data storage solution. Its implementation is likely slower than centralized databases, but the stored data is public and immutable. A blockchain store is a secure & trustworthy data source for managing critical transactions (e.g., financial transactions, medical transactions, legal contracts, etc.)