Over the last five years, almost everything about web development has changed. Oh, the old tech still works, your WordPress and Ruby On Rails sites still function just fine — but they’re increasingly being supplanted by radical new approaches. The contents of your browser are being sliced, diced, rendered, and processed in wholly new ways nowadays , and the state of it art is currently in serious flux. What follows is a brief tour of what I like to call the New New Web:
Table of Contents
- Single-Page Apps
- Headless CMSes
- Static Site Generators
- The JAMStack
- Hosting and Serverlessness
- Summary
1. Single-Page Apps
These have become so much the norm — our web projects at HappyFunCorp are almost always single-page apps nowadays — that it’s easy to forget how new and radical they were when they first emerged, in the days of jQuery running in pages dynamically built from templates on the server.
