Web Development

This article is for people who are new to web development, lost in the myriad of web frameworks and are asking themselves: What are the real differences in the frameworks? Having spent the last year getting up to speed with the state of the web, I’m going to summarise the 4 major architectural approaches to launching a new website in 2021. Although I describe them as discrete categories, in reality they exist on a continuum and some frameworks will blur the lines between these categories (eg. NextJS). For the beginner though, it is helpful to have a rough overview of the major choices available to you. ...

I’ve had to dabble in a bit of web development over the past year as part of my research fellowship and having not done this for a while, I have accrued a couple of thoughts I want to share. My background First, a bit of background. Growing up, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing the birth and evolution of the modern internet. From the days of 56kbps dial-up modems which gets taken out by lightning(!) occasionally and back when Yahoo was the default home page for everybody (remember those days?). This was before MySpace and Friendster. ...