Overcoming The Challenges Of Building Web Apps
Web apps are the backbone of many businesses, but building and maintaining them can be challenging. You must consider many factors, from choosing the right programming language to ensuring your web app is reliable. In this post, we’ll look at some challenges you may face with web apps and how you can overcome them.
Deployment and scaling.
Good software is not built in a vacuum. Even if you have the best team, tools, and code base, it will fail if you don’t plan how to deploy and scale your application.
This means ensuring the system can easily be deployed to any environment (web server, container cluster) while providing a simple way to roll back if needed. It also means having an easy way to monitor the app, so you know when something goes wrong or what’s working well.
Building web applications with microservices in mind becomes even more critical as multiple components are now interacting with each other over different protocols (REST API calls), which often need their monitoring solution too!
You’ll need some kind of configuration management tools like Terraform or Helm Repository, which allows anyone on your team access rights to configure deployment strategies automatically after going through a process defined by CI/CD scripts executed at various stages during development and testing phases before being deployed live into production environments where users interact directly with them via browsers etc.
Creating the right look and feel.
The next step is ensuring your app looks as good on a mobile device as on a desktop. If you’re creating an app for phones and tablets, you’ll want to ensure it works well in both orientations. Responsive web design allows you to create one web app that works just as well on mobile devices as on desktops.
You also need to keep accessibility in mind when designing for the web. For example, if your app includes video content (which would typically require users to click), then there should be subtitles available so that users can still understand what’s being said, even if they have trouble hearing or seeing clearly.
Another vital consideration is search engine optimization (SEO). With SEO, you can increase the likelihood of getting more traffic from search engines by making sure that keywords relevant to your business are included within the text of each page and by linking out to other websites within relevant articles so that people interested in those topics will find their way back here again in future searches.
Making it reliable.
You’ll need some tools to make sure your web app is available and reliable. The most basic tool is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A CDN is a network of servers distributed worldwide that serves your static content as close as possible to each user’s location. This reduces latency and improves page load times, meaning the difference between whether or not users stick around.
Next, you’ll want to use some load balancer in front of your application servers so that requests can be routed through another server if one server goes down or becomes too busy. Additionally, if you use any caching proxy like Varnish or Nginx as an intermediary between clients and servers, then it should also be able to handle requests from multiple locations at once since those proxies often distribute traffic across multiple backends automatically anyway.
Finally—and this should go without saying—you will definitely want monitoring services like Pingdom or New Relic installed so that when things go wrong (and they will), someone knows about it right away!
Security considerations.
As an app developer, you must ensure your application is secure and that the data it handles are confidential.
This can be a challenge for several reasons. For one thing, if you’re building web applications with JavaScript and React (or another framework), you’ll need to consider security from the ground up. You’ll have to use tools such as:
- A security framework like CSP/SRI or HSTS
- Open-source frameworks like AngularJS or React
- A lint tool like ESLint or JSLint
- A static code analyzer like Webpack Bundle Analyzer or Code Quality Tools for JavaScript Developers by
- RisingStack (which includes ESLint)
- A code review tool such as GitLab Auto DevOps Review Apps with Gitlab Code Reviewer
Eventually, you will need to deploy your application. If it’s on the web, you’ll want to ensure it’s secure using a tool like SSL/TLS. You’ll also need to consider security for mobile applications, which have concerns.
Conclusion
Whether you’re building a new web app or redesigning an existing one, keeping the user experience in mind is essential. Your users will judge your design decisions, so creating something that looks good and works well pays off.
Also Read : What Is The Process Of Designing a Digital Product?
