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How to Decide On Technology Stack Contributing to Project's Success

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Vlad Dm
How to Decide On Technology Stack Contributing to Project's Success
It is difficult to underestimate the impact of a properly chosen tech stack on the project's general success. Technology stack that powers your product do not only bring it to life but stand for its further maintainability, scalability, and many other factors. However, a lot of things should be taken into account before getting a perfect tech stack.
It is worth noting that the impact of your choice can be seen from the very beginning and covers almost all the layers of the project, from its management to marketing.
Here at Cleveroad, we deal with a technology stack selection for our projects regularly. In this article, we are going to share some thoughts and our experience with you.

What is technology stack?

First of all, it is worth considering some basic notions. What is a stack? It is a combination of tools such as programming languages, frameworks and so one, that were used while building a mobile or web solution. In turn, these tools are divided into the front-end and back-end.

Front-end tech stack

The front-end is a visual part of your product. In other words, everything your customers can see and interact with while using your solution is built with the help of different sets of front-end stack.
Talking about web solutions, there are some basic technologies having a variety of frameworks that under certain circumstances make the coding process faster, easier, and more flexible.
The core web technologies list includes:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
However, they have dozens of frameworks. Thus, one of the most popular CSS-based frameworks is Bootstrap. The world of JS is also full of popular alternatives to pure language such as Angular, React, Vue, jQuery and many more.
 
Talking about mobile app development, its programming stack is restricted by the platform's language. Accordingly, iOS uses Objective-C or Swift, while Android applies Java for this purpose. Nevertheless, both platforms have some frameworks such as Ionic, React Native etc. not to mention a hybrid app development.

Back-end stack

The back-end dev stack is always behind the scene since users cannot interact with them directly. They serve for business logic creation. To clear it up, when you are filling in a form to enter some service and press a button - you interact with the front-end stack technologies, while back-end gives you access to further use by checking if the information you entered is valid.
So, convenient interaction without any back-end components is impossible in some cases. Underneath, you can see a list of the most popular languages that developers use for the back-end works.
Back-end technology stack: most popular languages
The most popular languages serving for back-end (Source: StackOverflow)  
There are a number of other popular frameworks based on pure languages from the list above. For instance, Python-based Django, Laravel that is based on PHP, and of course .NET written in C#.
it is worth mentioning that both pure language and its back-end oriented frameworks may serve for building the server-side of your product. It is all up to you and your developers what to apply in your technology stack.
 
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