Need for web applications

Businesses use the Internet to broadcast their brand name, products, and services to the world. They constantly launch and update new web products because the Internet is growing at an amazing rate year after year.

While determined to keep up with new and upcoming trends and competing to win over customers, there is always a drive to expand their e-commerce and cloud service functionalities.

As changing demands fueled the need for new features that make it effortless for customers to enjoy, websites grew in complexity to meet these challenges.

First-movers such as eBay and Amazon succeeded not only because they had strong marketing teams. Other companies had strong marketing teams too. They capitalized on the fast-evolving market with highly functional web applications.

They took simple concepts, such as purchasing, inventory, and transactions, and created scalable web marketplaces that are so dominant today.

Web applications that served different needs, such as Hotmail or Gmail cloud email services, leveraged the web browser capabilities to create email applications that did not require software installations. This portability is one reason they have grown into what they are today.

User authentication, profiles, real-time data tracking, messaging, online payments, app state — these are some ubiquitous features you see today. It is harder to release a successful web app if it is lacking in too many features that other web apps commonly have.

It is important to focus on the core features and functionality when developing a web app, but it is not enough to simply focus on those core things. An equal amount of effort should be spent on other features to complement the core functionality to make users love your product.

Web application frameworks continue to gain in popularity as new companies enter and create applications of their own to grab market share. Frameworks provide a base for much of the core functionality that every web application requires.

Almost all new web applications use at least one framework to simplify development and to keep up with change.