Web development
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Web development is a subset of software development that focuses on client and server programming for web applications.
Web development can be complicated due to multiple server platforms, varying clients, and the web's stateless nature. Web development is simplified with open standards, multi-platform programming languages, and web application frameworks.
Technologies [edit]
A variety of related programming languages, techniques, and software are utilized for web development. While it's possible for a programmer to focus exclusively on one language or narrow aspect of web development, more often multiple languages and techniques are studied.
Technically any programming language which supports streaming text input and output can be used for the server side of web development (through CGI. A subset of languages have grown particularly popular:
Other languages are often used for other tasks:
- SQL for database interaction
- JavaScript for client-side scripting
Techniques:
