Choosing a good career path is a very important decision. Nowadays, Web Development is one of the talking points in the field of choosing a career in IT & Technology fields. According to U.S. News for jobs, web development holds rank #8. But, Who is a web developer, and What do they do?

    

       

 

What is Web Development? 

 

Web Development is used to build web applications that users can access using web browsers. 


Web applications are fundamentally different from websites. The difference between websites and web application is functionality. 


Let's understand the difference between them:


  • Web Application: A web application or web app is software that runs on the browser which provides functionality and interactive.

Examples: Create an account (Gmail), shopping carts.


  • Websites: A website is a collection of web pages that contains images, text, audio, and video. 
There are different types of websites like Static websites, Dynamic websites, Sharing websites, etc.


Conclusion: 


Websites only provide you a particular HTML page or content. Like an article where certain information or instruction. 

On the other side, A web application is much more interactive where the user can persist some data like create an account. 

We can say that websites are web applications. So, overall web development is building a web application where you can build websites, but the web application is the thing that makes web development interesting and challenging too.  

  

There are 3 types of web development: 


1. Front-end - 


Front-end where developers built the front-end of the application which is what we see in the browser. The front- end is also known as the client side. So, we can say that the front-end is part of the web application that the users interact with. 

 

Front-end skills required :


  • HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
  • JavaScript
  • Any framework of JavaScript like Angular and React JS (Library)
  • Any CSS Pre - Processor like SASS

2. Back-end -


The back-end is also known as the server-side. It is the part of the web application that deals with data and its relationship.

The back-end can be built with many languages and Databases. You can opt for anyone for back-end Development. some of them are:

  Languages :

  • PHP 
  • Python
  • NodeJS
  • JAVA
  • Ruby


  Databases :

  • MySQL
  • SQL server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle

 

3. Full-stack -


Full-stack is used where a developer is expected to know work with both front-end and back-end technologies and databases.


NOTE: There are also two more developers i.e. MEAN and MERN STACK Developer. Let's talk a little bit about MEAN AND MERN STACK DEVELOPER.


MEAN and MERN is two of the most popular stacks that evolved from JavaScript in all aspects of web development.  

  • MEAN includes MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js

on the other hand,

  •  MERN includes MongoDB, ExpressJS,ReactJS,Node.js

Job Titles :


4 Popular Web Development Job Titles :


  • Front-end Developer
  • Back-end Developer
  • Full-stack Developer
  • UX/UI Developer

salary :


Let's take a look at the average salary of web developers as we have seen that a web developer needs to know a lot of things, but what are the benefits of that the first thing that the web developers need to know is the salary that they will be getting an average depends on the technologies that they know it depends upon their skills.


But when we talk about the average salary for fresher is RS. 309,228 (According to payscale) in India. In the USA it's $60,023(According to payscale), In Singapore, it's S$35,400 (According to pay scale)and so many countries which paid well.

 

 

7 Reasons why web Development a good career choice :


  1. Self Improvement skills :

  • Become a good learner and learn things quicker.  
  • Think more logically.  
  • Learn to solve problems.  
  • Apply to just about any programming.  


  2. You can be a self-taught web developer:  


  • Make the most money with any simple degree.  
  • Learn for free or using any preferable cheap courses.  
  • And the most important having a portfolio of real projects is the most important thing you can do.  
  • But remember ,don’t be disheartened because good things will take time. 


    3. The pay:  


  • One of the highest paying jobs. 
  • You have to just enhance your skills and keep learning and implementing.

  

   4. The industry isn’t going anywhere:  


  • We will always need websites, web apps, web services, etc.  
  • Ranked 8 for US news and world report for better tech jobs in 2018.  
  • Every industry/niche need or could benefit from software/web development.  


   5. Work for yourself:  


  • Freelancing/ client work / consultation.  
  • Side projects for revenue streams.  
  • Content creation.  
  • Learn business skills to market your ideas.  


   6. Work from home:  


  • Many companies will let employees work from home.  
  • Work from coffee shops, hotels.  
  • Working from home can have its downsides.  
  • Running your own company is easier than most other professions.  


   7. Is being a web developer fun: 


  • Always doing and learning new things.  
  • Unleash your creativity.  
  • Extremely satisfying to build things.  
  • Not standardized and mind-numbing. 

Conclusion :


Overall, web Development is a good career choice if you enjoy solving problems logically and are always eager to learn and implement new tools and techniques. If you have good knowledge, then absolutely you will get awesome income and fruitful results.




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