Web Development Trends and Predictions in Armenia in 2023

2022 is coming to an end. A very hyperactive year for Armenian IT, many software development companies and startups smashed the industry with mindblowing products. This article will give you a vision of what will be changed in the software technology stack and help you choose the best software development technologies to create seamless solutions.

1. RUST FOR YOUR LOW-LEVEL SERVICES, COMPILERS, etc…

By 2022 rust is one of the most popular technologies to build compilers, blockchains, command line clients, safe network servers, and more.

Based on its safe memory management and garbage collector automatic handling it gives you the power to build secure and fast working systems.

What you can wait from rust by 2023/2024 based on the Rust Community roadmap

• More precise analyses, less rigamarole: Make the compiler better able to recognize when code is correct via improvements to the borrow checker, type inference, and so forth. Identify and eliminate "boilerplate" patterns like having to copy-and-paste the same set of where clauses everywhere.

• Express yourself more easily: Where necessary, extend the language so you can express what you want your code to do more directly. In some cases, this takes the form of syntactic sugar (such as let-else) but in other cases, it may mean extending the type system to be able to describe new patterns (such as generic associated types).

• Improve async support: Extend our async-await support beyond the current "MVP" to include features like async fns in traits, async drop, and other features needed to support the async vision document roadmap.

• Make dyn Trait more usable: Broaden the set of traits that can be used with dyn and make working with dyn closer to working with generics.

2. FUNCTION AS A SERVICE(FaaS, pay-as-you-use) as a cloud solution

One of the promising cloud solutions is gaining popularity day by day. 

Function as a Service, or FaaS, is a type of cloud computing service that allows users to run and execute individual functions or pieces of code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. This makes it easier for developers to focus on writing and testing their code, without having to worry about setting up and maintaining servers or other infrastructure. FaaS services are typically pay-as-you-go, meaning users only pay for the resources they use, making them a cost-effective option for many organizations. 

Most industry giants have support for FaaS such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft azure 

Based on cyberlearn, Typical FaaS pricing models have three components: 

• Billing by resources consumed (execution time x memory) 

• Billing by number of invocations 

• Ingress/egress network traffic is billed separately 

This is very different from IaaS or PaaS pricing that bills for VM/instance allocation time.

3. NEW FEATURES FOR SERVER-SIDE RENDERING IN WEB APPS

If you are building web applications with React js by 2022, you might be familiar with react 18 updates for mindblowing features to move the build process of your app to the server.

Server-side rendering allows for faster initial page load times because the server can pre-render the initial page and send it to the client, eliminating the need for the client to make additional requests to the server to render the initial page. This can also improve search engine optimization because search engines can crawl and index the pre-rendered HTML content, allowing for better visibility and ranking in search results.

By 2023 we can wait for React server components production release.

Server components are useful because they allow developers to build isomorphic applications that can be rendered both on the server and the client. This allows for faster initial page load times because the server can pre-render the initial page and send it to the client, eliminating the need for the client to make additional requests to the server to render the initial page. Additionally, server components can improve performance on low-powered devices because the initial rendering is done on the server, reducing the workload on the client.

4. SHOPIFY HYDROGEN TO BUILD TOP-LEVEL USER EXPERIENCE FOR E-COMMERCE WEBSITES

User experience in e-commerce can highly impact sales and interactions on various components. That's why Shopify comes up with an amazing solution called Hydrogen. Where you are free to build your custom storefront with React js.

If you are looking for an e-commerce solution Hydrogen will give you out-of-box implementations on the front end.
You can already start building an e-commerce web application with Hydrogen and deploy them in Oxygen, Shopify powered hosting platform where you can deploy Hydrogen storefronts

5. MORE EFFICIENT BACKEND WITH DENO.

Deno is a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that is based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language. It was created by Ryan Dahl, the original creator of Node.js, with the goal of providing a more secure and modern runtime environment for JavaScript and TypeScript. Deno uses a new approach to dependencies and security, and it includes built-in support for TypeScript out of the box. It is designed to be a more lightweight and efficient runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, and it includes several improvements over Node.js, including support for asynchronous streams and a more modern standard library.

It is difficult to predict the future, but it is unlikely that Deno will completely replace Node.js. While Deno does have some advantages over Node.js, such as built-in support for TypeScript and a more modern approach to dependencies and security, Node.js has a large and established user base, and it continues to be widely used and supported. Additionally, Deno and Node.js are designed to solve different problems, and they may be used in different scenarios. It is possible that Deno and Node.js will coexist and be used together in certain situations, rather than one completely replacing the other.

Deno is a relatively new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime if you are looking to build a secure backend service, here is an image that will help you quickly understand the pros and cons