With the highly accelerating demand for Social Media Application Development, the necessity to understand the in-and-out cannot be overlooked. Numerous application development companies have mushroomed claiming to render most unique solution, which has created a pressure on social media app developers to come up with the out-of-the-box idea to develop something new and catchy.
Along with maintaining the social media trend, the app must pose uniqueness to stay active among the users in the digital world (lure users with respective features.).
Well, the process of Social Media App Development requires huge time-frame, precise observation, and deep study, as it is a three-tier architecture namely: client side or the front end, server side or the backend and the database. Being a developer, your foremost task is to figure out the features and technologies involved in each section or level.
Here We have mentioned the core technology stack to make the developer understand the technology stack that can considerably ease their effort, costing and time.
Client-Side
The client-side or most commonly referred to front-end development - this is what users are able to view or often regarded as User Interface. As we know, the interface must be attractive and interactive at the same time for good design and experience.
Listed below are major front-end technology stack components:
HTML- Hypertext Markup Language & CSS- Cascading Style Sheets
HTML mostly used to report or notify the browser regarding the concerns like how and what to display. on the other hand, the CSS is used for styling the contents of the pages. Bootstrap is a necessary framework for managing HTML and CSS.
JS - JavaScript
The key purpose to use JavaScript is to make the web pages interactive. The use of the various JavaScript Libraries (jQuery, React.js) and frameworks ( Angular, Backbone, Ember) makes the Social Media Application development faster and easier.
Server-Side
This side is what that has nothing to do with users or the invisible side that users can't view. It powers the client side, the same way power station produces electricity for the household. Thus, choosing the right server-side is really an essential factor for social media application. This is further a challenging task too.
In general, the server-side programming language produces the logic among the different elements of the application. The different frameworks for the programming languages offer a lot of tools for the simpler and faster coding.
Following are some of the popular back-end programming languages and their major frameworks:
Ruby – Ruby on Rails
Python – Django, Flask, Pylons
PHP – Laravel
Apart from these, Node.js, a JavaScript runtime is also commonly used for backend programming.
Database
Database is quite essential part of development as it offers storage to the user’s data. And ofcourse, every application requires a place to store the data of its users and that’s where the database comes into the picture. There are basically two types of databases: relational and non-relational, each having their own pros and cons.
Here are the most commonly used databases:
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Server
The final requirement of the application is a server to handle all the requests from the users’ computers.
There are two major servers used:
Apache
Nginx
Conclusion:
In order to develop a social media application, it is recommended to choose the server, database, programming language, framework, and frontend tools depending upon the client’s requirement. And, these technologies should be blended ideally to created on top of each other and are collectively called a stack, which is essential and effective for the same.
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