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Today’s article is going to give you an insight of what a development stack is because the more you know about it – you will be able to make more informed decisions when you go shopping for a website. First things first – what is a development stack?
In web and software development, a stack is the combination of all the tools that a developer uses to create a website, a web app, or a software product. There are different types of development tools used within a project for different goals – some are used to create the structure, some are used to connect with the database, others are used to control the program, and they all affect the overall performance of a website or software application.
That said – there are a lot of competing tools in web development and this tends to bring about ‘a war of tools’ within the development community with developers being divided along the tools they use. Different developers will for example use different programming languages to achieve the same objective – like let’s say we want developers to build us a calculator – some developers will use PHP, some will use PYTHON, others will use JAVASCRIPT, others will use JAVA, NODE JS and the list is endless – and those are just a sample of server-side languages.
There are even wars on which databases to use and I do not intend to overwhelm you with all the different things that developers clash about. In my honest opinion however – each competing language has its own strong attributes and lesser attributes in comparison to the other but ultimately – it all comes down to the abilities of a developer at any given tool.
In that sense – shopping for an effective website then becomes more about finding an expert developer with a portfolio that matches the level of quality and efficiency that you expect for your project. Wondering how or where to find a developer with the right development stack for your website? Please contact me at 0792 694 725 info@karenwebs.com and I will be focused to turn your project into an achievement.