In 2022, clients are no longer happy with basic websites or apps. Functionality and aesthetics are equally important. The advent of Covid-19 has forced businesses to develop a robust online presence (customers' preferences & shopping behavior). With intuitive technology and simplicity, front development can enhance the visitor experience and encourage repeat visits.

Each web page is different. Without proper front-end development, visitors will not feel like clicking on individual pages to find out what they offer. Well, we don’t expect every company to have a front end expert developer. If you choose to hire a front-end developers or a freelance front-end developer, you must know the basics. Keep reading.

Salient Features of Front-end Development

Below are some prominent features of front-end development

1. UI/UX design—An ideal UI/UX design is intuitive, making the app/website easy to use while enhancing the design.
   
2. Layout—An experienced front developer should know how to efficiently use and arrange visual elements of web pages through HTML6 markup languages and CSS sheets. Moreover, front-end development also helps create interactive elements using Angular and Node.js.
   
3. JavaScript programming—When JavaScript is embedded in HTML, they will run instantaneously when you access your favorite web pages. Unlike Java or C#, there is no need for front-end developers to compile beforehand. Moreover, JavaScript is spread out on websites as plain text, enabling fast loading and accessibility.
   
4. Internet marketing—Internet marketing works closely with front-end development to improve functionality and design. Companies can use internet marketing to entice customers on social media, websites, email lists, and much more.
   
5. SEO optimization—With SEO, companies can design and promote their websites to be more visible than their competitors.

HTML

HTML or Hypertext markup languages help front-end developers create innovative web pages and applications for users. To put it in simple language, HTML is like a skeleton in a human body. Developers cannot create applications or websites without HTML web pages.

Hypertext—

Organized text (including images) that helps users navigate to other pages. These hypertexts are not sequential or straightforward, they allow for navigation to any other place.

Markups— 

Markups are symbols or characters that developers add at specific places in text files. These markups are enclosed within angle brackets like  

etc. These markups how the file would look when printed or displayed, lending the document a logical file structure.

Language –

Codes and syntax for a computer to understand, interpret and execute commands.

HTML has come a long way since its inception in 1991. HTML came about in 2014 with valuable features like offline media storage support, and specific content elements like header and, footer, navigation while providing support for audio & video embedding.

CSS

CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. If HTML is the skeleton then CSS is the flesh in a body. CSS helps front-end developers define various visual aspects of the web page like the colors, fonts, and layout. Who would want to see a boring website with a bland background and blue hyperlinks? Nobody! CSS lends personality to a website while making it appropriate for viewing on various devices.

The CSS intersects with multiple HTML elements through selectors, declarations, and properties. A selector is that part of the CSS code that determines the HMML piece that the CSS styling will impact. On the contrary, a declaration has properties and values that a selector employs. Properties define the font colors, sizes, and margins, while values provide the framework for these properties. CSS styles can be implemented in HTML web pages through external style sheets, internal style sheets, and incline styles.

CSS frameworks

A CSS framework is a collection of HTML and CSS files. Developers and designs can implement these frameworks to simplify tasks like setting colors, fonts, numbers, etc. Scripting technologies like SASS and JAVA are excellent accompaniments to stylesheets because they enhance and support their implementation.

CSS frameworks help developers & designers slash their legwork. They only need to code HTML with the correct class, structure, and IDs to design a web page. CSS frameworks eliminate cross-browser testing problems and improve browser compatibility. Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Foundation, Bulma, and Skeleton are the top CSS frameworks

JavaScript

JavaScript is one of the most preferred languages for front and back-end development. It runs on the client side in their browsers, provided that the client’s browser must support JavaScript or be Java-enabled. Java frameworks lend structure to the project by setting the page templates and creating the structure with designated areas for embedding code frameworks.

Furthermore, Java libraries are pre-written code snippets that help in implementing the core features of JavaScript. Back and front-end developers can integrate these code snippets within existing project codes if required. Angular and Vuje.js and Ember.js are popular Java frameworks, while React and jQuery are the preferred libraries.