Web development introduction

• What is it? Is the use of Web technologies to develop software.
• What kind of software? Before: Web pages (static and web apps), Now: Desktop, mobile, and Backend servers.
• What are these technologies? HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Why did it become so popular?​ 1 stack to rule them all, easy to develop (no need for memory control).
• How does it work? A Javascript Engine transforms Web technologies into Machine code.
• Javascript Engines? V8 (Google), Spidermonkey (Mozilla), Chakra (Edge).
• Javascript Framework? Collections of JavaScript code (libraries) that provide developers with pre-written JS code to use.
• Popular Frameworks? Backend: Node Js (Express), Frontend: React Js, Vue Js, Angular Js.