10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time

In today’s development environment: faster is better.

Present-day buzzwords and buzz terms like «rapid application development», «Asynchronous JavaScript and XML» (we can’t even wait for web pages reload anymore) and «Agile» gives you an insight of the fast-paced world we live in.

But getting things done rapidly does not mean working faster and harder — it's just working smarter. You will find 10 general, developing time-saving tips to cut down on your development time.

1. Use frameworks

Frameworks abstract regular code to provide you a structure and foundation for fast developing web applications.

A example of a framework is Ruby on Rails, a web application development framework for the Ruby language. By providing pre-made functions of code (for example — user input validation methods) — not only do you save time from writing your own code in Ruby — but you’re also assured that the packages have already been tested and inspected by other developers, saving you trouble in extensive testing as well as potential bugs due to the lack of testing.


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