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Go with PHP Development with latest Trends in 2017

Author: Chirag Agrawal
by Chirag Agrawal
Posted: Aug 24, 2017

The Internet has become an essential part of our lives. We utilize the internet in almost all of our daily activities such as shopping, tracking health statistics, banking, scheduling, and maintaining our daily tasks and much more. PHP remains to be one of the most used platforms to develop applications which assist us in the above-mentioned facets of our lives. Currently, PHP is being used by almost 82% of all the websites present on the internet. With its attractive features, PHP development provides better performance and user experience. PHP has undergone many improvements with the speed and maturity of various PHP libraries. Mentioned below are the recent PHP development trends in the year 2017.

1. Artificial Intelligence

When it comes to future of technology, artificial intelligence is at the forefront with great demand in the market, Owing to improvements and advancements which have been achieved in this field, its applications are enormous. It is currently being used by top companies like Google in order to find out damaged as well as inaccurate articles in order to improve its search engine. The PHP developers can now utilize artificial intelligence to create state of the art solutions and applications. In many websites, the developers can put inputs such as content, layout, color, etc. and ask the pre-programmed algorithms to generate an appealing website automatically. This assists the web designer to update the website at a constant rate until the best possible website is being created.

2. Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is another technology which has picked up momentum in recent years. With the introduction of Oculus Rift and other similar companies, it has brought a wide range of improvements in the field of gaming. There are many companies like Google and even Mozilla which have started to work on API’s in order to utilize the virtual reality technologies in the web. As of now, the upcoming years will see the growth of virtual reality in the field of news coverage, tourism, gaming and real estate tours. Many applications are being based on Virtual Reality technologies to provide enhanced user experience.

3. Introduction of Rails 5

With the introduction of the latest version of Rail 5 in the year 2016, it is predicted that its popularity with increase day by day in the year 2017. It comes with some of the best features which are quite helpful for the developers to create better websites. Action cable is an innovate method to utilize web sockets in order to make real time PHP applications development. With the assistance of action cable, there is great improvement in chat as well as notification feature. Rail 5 also allows the developers to make API applications and enables them to merge these applications with JavaScript. This enables the PHP development company to improve their applications to meet the customer requirements as well as providing them best features.

4. Introduction of Angular 2

Introduced in 2016, Angular 2 has been utilized to redesign Google frontend JavaScript. The applications based on this is written in TypeScript. With the release of Angular 2, Angular has become even more organized and comes with the regular release schedule.

5. New Yarn Package Manager

With the help of package managers, the developers can easily install, update as well as configure and even uninstall any code modules. One of the most well-known JavaScript manager – NPM and Bower. In collaboration with Google, Tide, and Exponent, Facebook has now developed a new package manager known as Yarn. It is targeted to solve the issues which are experience by the Facebook with NPM such as performance security as well as consistency. Yarn utilizes lock files which allow the developer to tie modules to specific version inside the project.

6. Static Website Generators

These generators are capable of creating websites from a mere plain text which are often stored in files rather than on any database. The static websites are built by generators such as JEKYLL which provide various features like increased, speed, enhanced security, and ease of development along with various other benefits. These generators will be quite useful in future since content delivery networks as well as API’s will become the essential part of the web. This reduces the work load of any PHP web developer who has been assigned with the task to create a comprehensive static website.

7. Evolving Web Design

2017 has been the year where various development has been introduced in website technologies. Users know want engaging as well as compelling methods in order to retrieve information quickly. Since the information changes on a regular basis, methods to deal with various type of information are also evolving. PHP7 will remain to be the primary framework for the developers in this year. The entire developer community is ecstatic with the updated version of PHP development since major drawbacks of PHP have been removed.

Now, the website hosting providers can also upgrade to PHP7 owing to its increasing popularity as well as nascent features. With the attractive features such as improved speed, PHP7 can dominate all important aspects of PHP development.

If you are looking for PHP development services, make sure that they are aware of these recent updates, features, and advancement in PHP. These trends will dictate the future development of PHP based applications.

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Founded in 2008, Endive Software is a steadily growing company with a global network of solution experts and architects. We are an award winning IT Services company based out of Sarasota, Florida (USA). Our area of expertise includes Web Development,

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