6 Web Development Trends Every CTO Should Expect in 2021

Technology is evolving as humans are finding faster and innovative ways of doing things. The world of web development is showing innovation at a face pace as compared to other areas. Developers are always up for new technology or trend which catapult them to a brighter future. For many companies, keeping up with trends is quite tricky. So here we have outlined some necessary web development trends of 2021 and beyond.

Keep an eye out for these web development trends in 2021

• No-code and low-code will drive application development

No-code and low code is a leap of hope in making our lives easier. To streamline workflows and reduce workloads, developers can use this tool. It helps developers focus on other tasks properly. This tool has turned savage for citizen developers, as it helps build useful applications without writing complex codes. No-code tools help in entry with visual programming interfaces for the beginners or who have never written a single line of code.

How to use these tools in your ongoing project

For time-consuming and manual tasks look at a product development lifecycle which your team is working currently. Implement and integrate low code tools into your workflows to limit wasted time and effective optimization. Equip your less technical team members with no-code tools to complete tasks effectively without overwhelming the IT department.

• Accelerate through artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption

Artificial intelligence is intertwining our lives from a few years, and with more investment by technical companies, we can witness a sudden leap in. Machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) have stepped forward from theoretical concepts to full use cases.

Some use cases explained by Luis Muñoz Villarreal of Traktion.ai

 

How to implement it?

Check your current business workflow and determine if you need AI/ML. Many business processes can be automated, and with AI’s help, human resources can free up for other tasks.

Uncover new insights by implementing AI-driven analytic tools to help your customers.

AI-driven chatbots help answer employee questions and speed up the onboarding process.

 

• Voice search and the smart speaker will explode thanks to IoT.

The Internet of things has held much promise for quite some time, but voice search and speakers is the major growth of IoT in 2021. By 2023 they estimate that there will be 8 billion digital voice assistants in use and 163 million smart speakers to be used at the same pace. This pace will show how developers and users interact with search engines, and the change will suggest how developers and marketers will adapt to how things change.

Paul Thornton explains.

Schema markup provides improved descriptions and search results, and it is microdata placed on your website.

Few tips to optimize your website with search queries

• With a brief introduction of 40-50 words optimize your content for zero position and use tables, bullet points where possible.
• Try to use a conversational tone in your blogs and product descriptions.
• Structure your keyword around FAQs rather than on a single keyword or key phrase.
• To yield a more diverse set of keywords, mix up terminology. Keep content natural and cover all the relevant ways of asking questions.

 

• Progressive web applications (PWAs) over native mobile apps

PWA’s influence will outgrow in 2021. PWA achieves greater advantages as it provides excellent user experience, and these trends continue to grow with the use of mobile devices. There are several benefits of progressive web applications. You can work offline and quickly using it. Recreate in-app experience and make things easy for developers by building PWAs compared to building Native applications for eerie devices.

 

Find a PWA example on the Pinterest mobile site.

 

How to implement PWA

Native mobile app building is costly and time-consuming, especially when you want to include personalization elements. If you are planning to revamp your desktop web application, you should optimize mobile devices. Instead of building two apps, develop your website as PWA for satisfactory customer experience on mobile devices.

• Smaller companies will favour SPAs for app development

Single page application is in trend and witnessing traction. Slow loading of pages while browsing can be annoying for users. To ease the browsing pain, SPA came into existence and its popularity gained through uninterrupted scrolling.

Major companies like Google and Facebook give examples of how SPA functions. Expect SAP adoption by more companies as JavaScript-based frameworks and users continue to come online.

A prime example of SPA in action is Google suite of products from Gmail to GDrive.

How to use SPA and what to do next

SPA provides faster load time and instead of reloading content of the entire page, only required content is updated on the page. Consider building your website on SPA if you have a smaller company, as this will reduce development time and improve user experience.

 

• Increased cybersecurity

Malware attack by hackers on Germany’s second-largest software vendor, Software AG in October 2020 demanded almost $20 million.

According to Cloudflare, – the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has doubled each quarter in 2020. In DDoS, a hacker target server with a flood of malicious internet traffic and end results of such acts can be hours of downtime and revenue loss.

 

Conclusion

It’s time when technology has redefined web development in every means and terms we had known. Under pandemic circumstances, many companies have learned how to operate remotely and use all the advantages of web development offers. We hope to see rapid development and changes in 2021. In case if you have a website, web page or looking to implement one of the trends in web technology then contact at [email protected]