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Is software production the same as it was 10 years ago? Of course not! It has become more complex, with teams distributed all across the globe and that too with people specialized in specific segments of the software production process. How can your customer base expand and new users captured for your software? For gaining this edge, the UI/UX of your software is your strong point.

Agile has been a buzzword over the past years and so is Project Management Tool (PMT). In Agile, Project Management has been the accomplice, the methodology, which is used for collaborating, managing work-in-progress and ensuring product deliverance on time.

Agile project management software offers improved visibility, task delegation, and workflow automation of software product development lifecycle and this aspect has been a ‘wow’ factor for even the marketing and creative teams and not just the software developers and service teams.

Jira and Trello are two giant names that you might have come across during your software development journey. But which project management software is the right one for your project? Here are our recommendations and an unbiased assessment of the two best project management tools for your product development.

A glimpse of Jira and Trello

Surprisingly, Jira and Trello are owned by the same company i.e. Atlassian. Both Jira and Trello have gained immense popularity over the last few years, and even have a common subset of audiences.

Trello was added by Atlassian in 2017 and right from that point they had the virtue of associating within large technology companies alongside existing connections. This is an added advantage for Trello customers because they benefit from added Native apps which were once available only to Jira customers, improved API connections and a much bigger support team. 

What are the advantages or disadvantages of Trello and Jira based on systems and pricing, team collaboration, project management, project agility features and integrations that makes it suitable for your business? Here are some data that we would like to share:

Comparison of Jira and Trello

• Cloud Hosting

Certain organizations prefer cloud hosting and certain organizations like to keep their data within their network, whilst the fact that cloud-based project management tools have certain pros to it. If you wish to self-host or go for cloud hosting, Jira will be the ideal choice. For Trello, there is no option like self-hosting and the potential customers will have to compromise there. Therefore the bottom line of this is that Jira is the optimal solution for those who want to track the issues while self-hosting and not Trello.

• Pricing

There is no clear winner when it comes to pricing aspects of these two project management tools. Until September 2019, the key differentiators of Jira and Trello was their pricing plan. But it was then that Jira software introduced their free tier and before that companies had to pay 10$ for 10 members for the cloud-based version. You will have to pay 10$ per 10 members only once, if you choose self-hosting Jira software.

In Trello’s free plan you can create any number of Kanban, tasks and collaborate with any of your team members. When it comes to integrations, the more capabilities you want on your Trello software, the more will be the price to be paid. The companies will have to upgrade their plans to ‘Business Class’ or whichever versions meet their requirements. 

Given below is the payment plan for Jira and Trello respectively:

Pricing Table

• Task Management and Team Collaboration

Project management has two supporting pillars- team management and team collaboration. Both Trello and Jira help you achieve what you need to achieve in its own unique ways.

Trello has all the ingredients like task creation, task delegation, setting time limits, notifications, moving cards with respect to the stages of completion in a Kanban, monitoring who is working on what and applying filters for quick search and everything needed for task management and team collaboration.

Jira software strictly adheres to agility when it comes to Task Management and allows you to customize workflows with the help of workflow builder and assign rules on how a card can be moved from one point or status to another. If you wish to show certain specific work items to selected audiences, there is a provision for that too in Jira’s advanced setting. If not done rightly, this can create confusions and miscommunication among team members that we know is the least you want!

• Agility

Agility is the quintessential factor of Jira software. It lets your team follow agile methodologies and the projects in Jira software supports both Scrum and Kanban. This means that you can use it either as a scrum tool with a scrum board or simply as a Kanban software.

Trello can be simple but it doesn’t fully comply with Agile project management. Using the Kanban software tool, you will be able to push the work quickly, but Trello fails to have dedicated support for Scrum teams. Hence using Trello for Scrum can be a little difficult.  

• Reporting

Reporting developments, performance and a multitude of other metrics is important for making key decisions. Jira helps you to achieve that with the help of techniques like burn up and burn down charts, cumulative charts among others and helps you in overseeing exactly where the project is headed. 

Trello can help you only with procuring some basic information about your project and no out-of-the-box reporting techniques are available with Trello.

• Integrations

At some point of time you will need something out of your PM tool, like a code repository or slack required for your project through integrations. When you compare the power of Jira and Trello in terms of third party apps that it can connect with, then the former has around thousands of tools that can be integrated with than the latter. Both Jira and Trello have free access to public APIs for you to hit the endpoints and customize workflow.

Endnote: Is there a middle ground between Jira and Trello?

Trello is easy to use, but if you want to streamline your product development process then Jira will be the right choice. The biggest drawback of Trello is its inability to generate reports and insufficient dedicated support to run sprints. This will create a ruckus for project managers trying to keep the progress on track. 

Undoubtedly Jira has an upper hand especially when your concern is about complex project management workflows. But the tool is NOT an ‘easy-to-use’ kind and can at times steep the learning curve of employees familiarizing with the product, that in turn causes not being in-sync issues. Here is your final checklist to see which project management tool can be ideal for your business:

 

 

Next.JS was announced by Vercel on October 26, 2021- It is the latest version of its JavaScript framework based on the React library. The CEO of Vercel, Guillermo Rauch, who is also the creator of Next.js, quoted version 12 as ‘the first SDK for the web’ concerning the advanced functionalities.

What is new with Next.JS 12?

Next.js has increased speed which empowers developers in getting better site rankings through Google’s Core Web Vitals. Like Google, Facebook is also a strong support system for Next.js. In the present situation, developers are pushing their limits with codebases. With codebases having thousands of poage entry points, and ten thousand components, modern web development is battling a lot of issues. This has catalyzed ‘native tooling’ in Next.JS 12 version, particularly with the announcement of a compiler built using Rust, a futuristic programming language known for its performance speed.

In Node.JS 12, a Rut-based engine for compilation is combined with the existing JS-optimized infrastructure. This results in three times better development speed and five times better build speed. Additionally, it also offers ten times more speed for specific processes like minification of bundles. 

Node.JS 12 has additional features like ‘running code before a request is completed’ enabled through ES modules and URL imports, instant Hot Module Replacement (HMR), and ‘Middleware’.

In short, Next.JS 12 is the biggest release ever with the following highlights:

• Rust Compiler
• Middleware (beta)
• React 18 Support
• ‘<Image />’ AVIF Support
• Not-aware ISR Fallback
• Native ES Module Support
• URL Imports (alpha)
• React Server Component (alpha)

Bringing Next.JS at the edge with New Middleware and Edge Runtime

Next.JS Middleware empowers developers by eliminating the operational burden with the backing of serverless deployment, high scalability among others. Like already mentioned, Next.JS Middleware runs code even before the request is completed. The response can be rewritten, redirected, added with headers, or even streamed HTML based on the users’ influx of requests. Middleware logic is shareable for a set of pages- authentication, bot security, redirects, handles unauthenticated browsers, feature flags, a/b tests, server-side analytics, logging, and more.

Edge functions in Next.JS Middleware are so deployed that it nullifies the leftover tradeoffs with serverless. Edge functions boot up promptly with no cold boots, deploy globally, and backstreaming HTML. Also, Edge Functions reduce the burden on the client by eliminating lengthy routing configuration files and supporting robust applications at the edge. In short, the power of dynamic code generates the power to users with the speed surety of static.

Next.JS Middleware and Edge functions favors:

• Running JavaScript before even processing requests.
• Modifying request responses.
• Defining the entire global infrastructure of applications by fusing a few pieces of code during the deployment time.

Each Edge function is deployed globally, while developers define Next.JS Middleware as part of their Next.JS applications. Even without any configuration, Edge functions run automatically in every region of the Edge network and unlike serverless functions, Edge functions have no cold bots.

What are the Innovative Elements included in Next.JS?

Next.JS 12 is optimized for Developer Experience with the following innovative elements:

• ES Modules: Next.JS ships smaller bundles to users within the support of ES modules.
• URL Imports: Seamless integrations with no code and design tools are enabled using the introduction of experimental URL imports, thus improving developers’ experience.
• Instant HMR and Builds: With zero code changes, Next.JS 12’s Rust-based compiler enables thrice faster Fast Refresh and five times faster production builds.  
• Next.JS Enhancements (Beta): Next.JS Live runs natively inside the web browser and allows anyone within the link to collaborate by booting up instantaneously.
• Server-side Rendering Streaming and React Server Components (Alpha): Data can be fetched from the server-side and those results can be streamed to the browser cumulatively with no client-side JavaScript.

Next.JS is termed as the first SDL for the web making developing, building, collaborating, and shipping much swifter than its predecessor. The Next.JS Middleware framework is consistent within the global opportunities of the modern cloud, thus powering websites with more dynamicity, personalization, and performance. Codes can be run anywhere, giving the best of the static and dynamic world with one unified abstraction.

Designers and Business Users Collaboration with Next.JS 12

Next.JS is an in-depth framework for experienced web developers, but Next.JS allows the merging of development with no code and design tools. Thus non-developers can use Next.JS even if they restrict using tools only for collaborating with developers.

According to Vercel CEO Mr. Rauch, the URL import functionality enables “new kinds of seamless integrations into no code and design tools like Framer”. This helps in heightening the number of non-developers among its users.

Framer is a tool used by designers to prototype components or products within a visual user interface and hidden code. The URL imports in Next.JS 12 support a user in importing a component that was visually designed in a tool like Framer. The user can design a component visually like a sketch. The URL of the sketch should be then copied and imported to your codebase and then the visual design of the component tree is completed.

But all this does not mean that non-developers can easily use Next.JS to build an app, but URL imp[ort certainly advocates the ‘low-code functionality to the non-developer user base of Next.JS 12.

Endnote: Next.JS- the future of Web Applications

As of October 2021, it has been five years since Next.JS has been introduced to the developer community and it has been showing a positive growth trajectory as a wide-ranging JavaScript since its instigation. 

When it was introduced in October 2016, it was a small framework designed for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps. Now it has grown into a framework with Middleware! With Edge functions and React Server components, Next. JS got itself a subtle distinction enabled for its developers.

And one more thing. Then visual designers and business users will not understand the advanced functionalities of Next.JS, because the developers can exercise full control of this framework!

 

 

The material design must be a familiar design language if you are into mobile or web application development. Material language is a popular design language developed by Google in 2014. There are certain interesting aspects about Material design- it is inspired by the physical landscape around you like the materials, how they reflect light and cast shadows. Material design is reimagining the mediums of paper and ink.

With the components available in the Material UI library, your React web or mobile application development becomes a cakewalk with the easily available Material design elements. How is Material UI with React going to help your mobile and web application development projects? Let’s discuss.

What is Material UI?

Material UI is a robust library that facilitates the import and utilization of different components to create a user interface in your React applications. With Material design language, the developers need not develop anything from the scratch and can save a considerable amount of time.

The widgets available in Material UI are based on the principles of Google for building user interfaces. It is the best tool that developers can rely on to build visually appealing applications. 

How to use the Material UI library in your React application?

The Material user interface is made up of material design elements. The Material. UI components are displayed to the user with a multitude of courses. The navigation bar in the app includes the title of the application, a search field for entering text and doing a quick search of courses, and a responsive grid that includes the course results.

How to set up the React project?

As already mentioned, the main goal of Material UI is to incorporate its library and use its components in the React application. 

For this, you need to install npm in your system. The npm can be used to download and install the different dependencies for your application. You will also need a code editor and Visual Studio code before starting. 

The steps involved are:

1. Navigate your desired folder and create a React project. 
2. Install the Material UI to access the various functionalities or components.
3. Eliminate the unnecessary elements and delete the codes in the div tag inside the app.js file.
4. Import your Material UI components into your project.

1. Create React project

Now let us start with the first step, which is setting up the React project. For this use create-react-app script in the following manner: 

$ npx create-react-app react-material-UI

The create-react app can be executed using the npx command (part of the Node Package Manager) and you need not download it and install it in the first place. 

Once the installation is complete, open the folder in the code editor and then type npm start to start launching the development server. The default React application can be viewed by navigating to http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

2. Install the Material UI

Once this is done, you will have a new project directory react-material-UI available. Then you have to change into the newly created project folder and you will find the React starter project.

3. Install Material UI library and dependencies

Installing dependencies is the next step to assume. For accessing different functionalities and components, you must ensure the following steps are followed:

• Type npm install @material-ui/core in the terminal and click Enter.
• Run npm install @material-ui/icons for using Material UI icons in your project.
• Confirm that the dependencies have been installed by checking in the package.json 

 

We install the JavaScript library for accessing the backend of the contentful JavaScript language using the command: 

$ npm install contentful

Now you have to find out whether everything is working fine by starting the development web server using the command: 

$ npm start

Then a browser opens up with a start page of the corresponding React application. You will be able to view the ‘Welcome to React’ output page in the browser.

4. Application of Material UI components

Import the Material UI components in your project. Once the browser is refreshed, a button with the ‘press me’ message will be available. Since this button and other components are not styled properly, you can use props to style those. Text widgets can also be imported and variants can be used to define how the text widgets should appear. You will also have the option of creating an independent component and importing it to another file.

Material Ui widgets also include AppBar, Toolbar, and Typography in which Typography helps in highlighting the items appearing in the toolbar. 

Now the created components should be converted into app.js files. Add <Header> in the div tag for using the widget.

What are the advantages of Material UI?

• Appealing design: Sophisticated theming features enable you to either use Google’s Material Design or create your design for starting your projects.
• Customizable: Choose any styles you want or tweak your components into any form you want by leveraging the powerful components of Material UI.
• Documentation Support: More than 2000 open-source contributors experienced in the field have created support through strong documentation for the developers.
• Accessibility: Material components are great for every type of mobile and web application and can be easily accessed by any audience irrespective of their size.

Why use Material design?

Material Design is an effective tool that is not limited to a set of guidelines, but an entire design ecosystem. If you have a potential design in hand, Material UI supplies you with a set of rules on how to handle it. Material Design helps you solve complex use cases with comprehensive design systems. Developers can handle any structure if they have support and documentation as strong as Material Design, many modern design systems lack such provisions!

Apart from comprehensiveness, Material UI is also considered a fairly flexible design library. The designer will have the authority to exercise the specifics of implementing a particular design. Material UI has other granular advantages like skeuomorphism which means that it will be apart from the flat design and makes it far more intuitive to users. Material UI’s feedback is haptic, has subtle animations, and similar things are built in the guidelines. With its simplified sense of physics, interactions become more intuitive.

Material Design was meant for Android apps and has mobile-first sensibility. It enables animations in designs for user feedback as well as for hinting at how different features work. Earlier, Material Design supported light and bright-themed apps which opposed the aesthetics of certain apps. As a result of this, it started offering dark theme options for making your apps more appealing visually.

Endnote: Why Material UI is one of the Best UI Library for Rea

For apps built on Android platforms, Material design is the easiest choice. Google is proceeding with widespread adoption and therefore any app based on Material Design is a strong choice and is going to give a feel like the Native apps. 

If you extend your thoughts beside the Android platform, the design systems are maturing at a rapid pace and it will only continue the trend in the coming years. Designers and mobile or web application companies should familiarize themselves with the guidelines of the Material Design for easily designing using Material Design, and when other systems can be better aligned.

 

In Node.JS, LoopBack is one of the most opted frameworks. Why? Because it helps in creating the most dynamic applications with the help of Command-line Interface (CLI) and Application Programming Interface (API) explorer. Loopback is compatible with many REST services and databases that include MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres among others.

If you are looking forward to developing dynamic applications based on your schema, then LoopBack.JS with its plentiful features is the best choice to make your app more rewarding.

What is the vision behind LoopBack? Some are listed below:

• Easily build apps that involve complex integrations.
• Enabling a larger landscape of extensions.
• Provide cores that are adequate, swift, flexible, and robust.
• Make it compatible with small or large teams.
• Minimally opinionated to weigh in teams’ opinions.

What is LoopBack.JS?

LoopBack is one of the excellent frameworks available in one of the most opted JavaScript frameworks- Node.JS. In the Node.JS ecosystem, LoopBack pivots the creation of API builds and microservices.

In official terms and definition, LoopBack is a highly extensible, open-source Node.JS and Typescript framework based on the Express that enables you to quickly create APIs and microservices composed from backend systems such as databases and SOAP or REST services.

Which is the Latest Release of LoopBack?

The current release of LoopBack is LoopBack 4. This latest release includes the following updates:

• TypeScript/ES2017 based novel core to deliver high extensibility and flexibility.
• Definition of REST APIs and handling of API responses and requests for creation experience.
• A programming model that has dependency injection and concepts to make the LoopBack framework extensible with concepts like components, mixins, and repositories.
• Support of GraphQL enabled through OASGraph.

The Developers’ Contribution in LoopBack

LoopBack, which is built on Node.JS, is one of the most opted frameworks in app development, particularly for API development. The ability of Node.JS to execute programs in an asynchronous and non-blocking manner is particularly helpful for high-latency uses like mobile and other networked apps. LoopBack backs popular constructs of Node.JS like Express middleware and Promises. So the developers’ contribution to the project helps in making better APIs and is as good as using a framework that the developers are already familiar with.

The Business Problems Addressed by LoopBack

LoopBack helps businesses to create a REST API with minimal coding and with so doing, businesses are phishing their limits to make their products and services to larger developer audiences who make use of APIs. With LoopBack, your business will have consistent ways to design and apply APIs including the REST layer, models, and ORM. 

Traditional Java or. Net-based stacks consume a lot of hardware support for processing higher loads. But for LoopBack, the asynchronous nature of Node.JS helps to handle large loads with lesser hardware support. Thus for projects involving Mobile apps and IoT with high server loads, LoopBack is the ideal choice to build APIs. LoopBack capabilities are the result of leveraging the dynamic nature of JavaScript thus helping in discovering data structures and enabling developers to reduce the time needed for building a working version of their API service and iterate at a larger rate.

If your client is dealing with legacy systems, LoopBack has connectors from DB2, Oracle, MSSQL DB to SOAP web services. This will reduce the overall expense of a new API tier integration with the already existing ‘system of record’ tires.

How to Get Started with LoopBack?

Here are the steps involved in getting started with LoopBack:

1. To start with LoopBack, you need a certain specific prerequisite
2. Install LoopBack 4 CLI
3. Create new project
4. Add your controller
5. View the code sample

What are the Top Features of LoopBack?

• It can create REST API swiftly.
• You can connect devices and browsers to data and services.
• It can be run on both on-premise and cloud servers.

Why should you go for LoopBack?

LoopBack comes with bounteous advantages that make it a must-have option for developers like:

Full-Stack Development

LoopBack is backed by the power of full-stack development, which means the same model can be shared for the client-side as well as server-side. Therefore, the REST API functions available in the server are also available on the client-side. Thus with a lesser codebase and faster development, LoopBack helps in developing an app without considering the CRUD operations or without doing any, particularly concerning the server. Even when custom REST APIs are involved, the consumption on the client-side remains hassle-free.

Built-in Features

As far as built-in models and features are considered, LoopBack offers a lot of out-of-the-box things. Creating CRUD APIs can be done with simple flags and common practices like role-based APIs for user management can be done in a jiffy. For creating API contracts and interacting within them, LoopBack offers API swagger too.

Organized and Moduled Codes

LoopBack is an opinionated framework as already mentioned, and organized codes are one of the benefits that come with it. With the project architecture in hand, a proper understanding of placing new codes, and a handy level of abstraction all sums up to a structured project.

Faster Development

Your LoopBack project can be easily scaffolded using the StrongLoop CLI and your project progression happens at a fast pace with the help of its other futuristic functionalities.

Community Support:

StrongLoop has a strong support organization and is a full-time team involved in its development side. Hence, the framework can be tagged as a stable and mature one and is a major player in its respective field.

ORM Built

For creating clean codes, models and relations are defined by adding JSON files. Its full-stack architecture makes querying databases can be made simple by querying the database from the client side directly using filters.

Endnote:

If you are developing an API on a node, then the LoopBAck framework is one of the ideal options as it is compatible with a wide range of existing express middleware. StrongLoop is maintaining the express repository and performing minor LoopBack updates regularly which makes another strong reason for choosing it.

However, the nature of your project at hand matters, and if you feel there are many levels of right decisions for your project regarding LoopBack, let our development experts at Webdura help you to solve that indecisiveness!

In a survey conducted involving people working with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) was conducted, 33.4% of respondents said that GraphQL is one of the most exciting technologies to opt for.

GraphQL is developed by Facebook that was initially applied for mobile applications in 2012. In 2015, GraphQL specifications were outsourced, which is now administered by GraphQL Foundation.

What is GraphQL and why is it important for your modern APIs?

GraphQL is a query language and server-side runtime for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling the queries with your existing data. If you need to have a complete understanding of the data in your API, then GraphQL is your best go! 

With GraphQL, clients will have the ability to procure only what they need and nothing more or nothing less. GraphQL controls the data and not the server, and it always returns predictable results! This makes APIs easily flexible, fast, and developer-friendly.

Terms related to GraphQL:

• Schema: Every possible data that a client can query through a particular service can be described by API developers by creating a schema in GraphQL. A schema consists of object types i.e. the type of object requestable and the fields that it will include.
• Queries: In GraphQL, queries are  to be validated against the schemas, and only then will the validated queries be executed.
• Resolver: Resolver is a function to which the developer attaches each field in a schema, with each generator generating a particular value.

What are the decisions that an API developer takes as far as GraphQl is considered? Well, apart from defining and validating syntax for API queries, from the graphql-spec repository, most of the other decisions are presided by the API designer. GraphQL gives no directions regarding how to store data and developers can use any programming language like JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby among others. 

From the viewpoint of a client, the most generic GraphQL operations are probably Queries and Mutations. The priority of these operations can be represented in terms of the Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) model, in which Query is equivalent to Reading and Mutations equivalent to Create, Update and Delete.

What are the advantages of GraphQL?

If you are planning to try GraphQL in a business or enterprise environment, here are some reasons for a positive nod:

1. GraphQL enables an organization to federate its entire API and the GraphQL schema sets a single source of truth in a GraphQL.
2. In a single round trip, GraphQL calls are managed and clients get the requests they want without any over-fetching.
3. Data types are strongly defined so there are no communication hassles between the client and the server.
4. GraphQL is ideal for auto-generating documents because of its introspective feature in which the clients can request a list of data types.
5. Without breaking existing queries, an application API can be evolved in GraphQL.
6. Features that are not available with Rest API can be accessed from the open-source GraphQL extensions.
7.  A particular application architecture need not be dictated, but introduced on top of an already existing Rest API and is workable with existing API management tools.\

What are GraphQL Best Practices?

The GraphQL specifications are purposefully unstated on many critical issues faced by API related to network, authorization, and pagination. It  does not mean that GraphQL has no solutions for these issues, but it simply means that these issues are outside the description of GraphQL. 

The best practices mentioned in the coming section are tactical suggestions for solving recurring issues like serving over HTTP and authorization.

HTTP

While Rest API uses a suite of URLs that expose a single resource, GraphQL is typically served over HTTP through a single endpoint that deliberates a full set of service capabilities. GraphQL is usable alongside a suite of resource URLs but will be a little incompatible with tools like GraphiQL.

JSON GZIP

Despite JSON GZIP not being in the GraphQL specifications, it typically responds to it. JSON is a familiar framework for clients as well as API developers, which is easily readable and debuggable. GraphQL syntax is partially inspired by the JSON syntax.

Versioning

GraphQL avoids versioning by providing resilient tools for the continuous evolution of a GraphQL schema, even though GraphQL can be versioned like any other REST API by all means.

There will be only limited control over the data returned from an API endpoint, any changes can be assumed as a breaking change that requires a new version. The understandability and maintainability of an API becomes difficult with adding new features and constant releases. GraphQL has a different way of dealing with this- it returns those data that are explicit;y requested, without creating a breaking change through adding new types and new fields on those types. Hence this practice is the most opted to avoid breaking changes and serving a version less API.

Nullability

By default, the GraphQL type system has nullable fields. When the network is supported by databases and other services, there are chances that a database crashes or an asynchronous action fails or an exception gets removed. When fields are nullable by default, the fields would return ‘null’ rather than a request failing because of the aforementioned reasons. In the case of GraphQL, when a client raises a request for a non-null field, it will never return null, but will instead set the parent field to ‘null’ when an error occurs.

During the designing phase of GraphQL schema, the designer has to take care of the potential issues if ‘null’ is set as the appropriate value for a failed field.

Pagination

In GraphQL, some fields can  return a list of values. But the -pagination of longer lists of values is left to the decision of the API designer. GraphQL has many API design possibilities for pagination that come with a combination of pros and cons.

APIs feature-efficient paved the way to a best practice pattern termed Connections. Connections tools of clients like Relay can therefore provide automatic support for pagination from the client side when this pattern is integrated by GraphQL.

Server-side batching and caching

Clean codes can be written on the server-side using GraphQL with each field on each type having a focussed on single-purpose function for value resolution. However, there can be repeated data loading from your servers if the GraphQL service is inexperienced or naive. When there are such multiple data requests from the backend in a short period to an underlying database or microservice, the batching technique has opted, and for this tools like DataLoader from Facebook.

Endnote:

Why should companies go for GraphQL? GraphQL is a strong enabler for both API developers and consumers because:

• Through one unified API, organizations with multiple teams and systems can make their data available easily.
• There is no under fetching or over fetching of data and can fetch only the required data across the related entities.
• It has a self-documenting feature that helps to inspect and try out APIs with minimal efforts.
• It is built around a type system that shows the name and type of each field alongside relationships with different entities.
• It can encourage different approaches to API modifications.

Want to build an evolvable and queryable API? Then GraphQL is the right choice. With GraphQL, there will be minimal complexity involved for internal systems for data retrieval. It uses a type system that leads to automatic and updated API documentation at all times. Furthermore, its tooling and ecosystem is what qualifies GraphQL as a potential tool not just for the developers, but for your clients too.

How good are style components in React for styling web pages? If you ask us, we would say it is pretty good!

Adding style to web pages using styled-components has been the practice that brings the quintessential appearance to applications.

So how about we learn a little something about how to style your apps? Let’s get started!

What are the prerequisites?

Do you have the following prerequisites installed and running to follow the coding part?

• Command line interface running on administrative privileges
• JavaScript and CSS understanding
• Yarn or npm package manager
• Code creator like VS Code of your choice
• The latest version of Node.JS

What are React and its components?

React is an open-source JavaScript library powered by Facebook Inc. If you are looking forward to building an app in an urbane and responsive User Interface and components, then React is your best course of action. React is one of the most preferred frameworks of front-end developers as it is component-based.

React in the front-end integrates well with backend libraries like Node.JS, Django, Java among others. As a fast, simple, and scalable framework, React extends data changes in your applications without having to reload the applications.

Applications built using React have the provision of developing each of its parts separately and can be reused as a component. React components are reusable JavaScript functions that manage what appears on the UI and the sequence in which it is appearing. The React components return HTML scripts and other pieces built separately as JSX code through the render() function.

These components are then amassed to create complex user interfaces. Additionally, the React components enable developers to segment their application’s UI into independent and reusable sections to engage each section in segregation.

The parts in a web application like navigation bar, search bar, header, and other sections are built as components and merged into a single UI using React components. The components in React can be written as Functions or Classes. Functions or Classes accept defined inputs/props for fixing what is to be delivered on the browsers.

Props are like function arguments that pass data as input from one component to the other. In JavaScript, the functional component takes in single-props as an argument transferred to a component and returns a react element without using the render() method.

In the case of class components, the base component- React. Component- return all defined React elements through the react() method.

In React, buttons, content areas, navigation, dialogue boxes, etc. are a few of the frontend parts that can be defined as components. Now let us see more about React’s styled-components.

Major Styling Strategies in React

How about now we discuss the most popular modern styling strategies in React and how to use them to style your React components? Here are some of the top styling strategies in React:

 

• CSS and SCSS stylesheets

 

Separate stylesheets are like the traditional way of styling the HTML websites with CSS or CSS preprocessor-SCSS.

 

• CSS modules

 

CSS modules are CSS files in which all class names alongside animation names are defined in the local setting by default.

 

• Styled Components

 

Styled-components is a library created for React and React Native developers, enabling them to use component-level styles in their applications. Styled-components are a combination of JavaScript and CSS using the CSS-in-JS technique.

 

• JSS

 

JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript to describe styles in a hassle-free, declarative, and reusable manner that is compiled in the browser, server-side, or at build time in the node.

What is React Styled-Components?

As already mentioned, styled components is a library created for React and React Native developers, enabling them to use component-level styles in their applications. Styled-components are a combination of JavaScript and CSS using the CSS-in-JS technique.

CSS offers developers the flexibility to reuse their codes of a particular project for another one. This is possible because styled-components are centered on tagged template literals, which means the CSS codes are written between backticks while styling your components. Another plus of styled-components is that they do not require the mapping of the already created components to external CSS styles.

More about Styled-Components:

Styled-components we’re created with the same operation as CSS modules. This way the scope of CSS is limited to a single component and will be inaccessible by any other element in the page or even component.

Say, you need to do styling in Box.js file. Following are the steps to follow:

1. Install styled-components library by running npm install styled-components –save.
2. Import a styled-component library into your component by writing import styled from ‘styled-components’;.
3. Create a variable by choosing an HTML element where style keys are stored.
4. Use the name of the created variable as a wrapper around the JSX elements.

The above steps can be summarised in a code format. In the cod format, styled objects from styled components that use tagged template literals for styling. A variable is then created to hold the styling and to act as a wrapper around the content. For this, we have <Box> and <Content> tags, to assign styled objects plus the HTML element for styling followed by the accompanying styles for the HTML element. The JSX or content in between them as tags are wrapped to use the variables created for styling.

import React from ‘react’;

import styled from ‘styled-components;

const Box = styled.div`

  margin: 40px;

  border: 5px black;

`;

const Content = styled.p`

  font-size: 16px;

  text-align: center;

`;

const Box = () => (

  <Box>

    <Content> Styling React Components </Content>

  </Box>

);

export default Box; thank 

What are the advantages of styled-components?

• Provide unique class names for your styles thereby minimizing class name issues like name duplications, misspellings, and overlaps.
• Easy identification of CSS that are applied and easy deletion of unused component styles as styling is connected to a specific component.
• Simple and smart styling enabled through supported props and global themes, thereby nullifying the requirement of manually managing the chunks of classes.
• Irrespective of the size of your codebase, you can import different styles into other project areas.

Endnote: Why is the styled-component in React important?

• The consistency makes a styled-component easy for publishing a React component to NPM. Without clashing with CDS selectors, the components can be personalised through props and/or extending through styled(Component).
• Without installing SASS or any extra build tools, you can get SASs trademark syntax out-of-the-box.
• In React, to dynamically change styles or tweak the style in the way you want, you can make use of props.
• With ThemeContext, you can get a theme object accessible to any of your components, and by default can be inserted into styled definitions.

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A product is ready in the dev environment. But would that be enough to roll it out to your customers? Definitely NO! 

Testing is the most important activity for ensuring that the product developed is in line with business expectations. As an integral part of the software development process, testing helps you evaluate the overall product quality, stability, usability, and security. 

Wouldn’t it be great to have a reference guide to verify whether your QA processes are aligned with the radical ways of QA practices? So this is what we are trying to convey through this blog. Let’s begin…

QA planning and processes

QA plan and the process should be well defined and documented. A person from your team or any stakeholder should comprehend and get the hang of the overall testing strategy and the business goals. 

Good documentation fills the gap between the team and the project stakeholders. So proper planning and defined process will bring quality to how the project meets customers’ needs and requirements. *

For this, we need a quality management plan to support project stakeholders and entail the benchmarked quality standards. The plan should cover quality objectives, activities, tools, and reporting defects and problems. 

Test strategy is a more detailed document that should align with the requirements. It should cover the scope of testing, test objectives, test schedule, defect tracking, and risks identified. 

Test plan to prioritize and describe the testing scope and activities. It should be brief and contain only appropriate information to avoid duplication and effort. Test cases should be unique and clear to classify, track and review at later stages.

Test-oriented implementation

Test-oriented implementation is one of the best ways to improve the quality of the software. One of the ways to achieve this is by using extreme programming (XP). XP is a software development methodology that focuses on developing high-quality software with the capability to adapt to changing requirements. 

2 XP practices are closely related to testing:

1. Test-driven development
2. Pair programming

Test-driven development (TDD)

In Test-driven development, the developer writes the test cases first and then writes the code. When a new feature or an enhancement comes, the developer starts with writing a test. An automated test case will be written before writing the code to fulfill that test. This method will help to improve the design and refactor the code till it passes all the tests merely focusing on the functionality. 

TDD is an iterative development method that will help to increase productivity and quality of the code and application. Benefits of TDD:

1. Increase quality
2. Reduce development costs
3. Reduce coding complexity 
4. High productivity 

Pair programming

Pair programming can also be called an extreme programming technique. 2 developers will be working in parallel on the same computer. One will write the code and the other will review the code and provide suggestions. This can increase code quality thus reduce debugging and refactoring costs. 

Benefits of Pair programming:

1. High code quality
2. More knowledge on the product and how it works 
3. Clean code

Start testing early

Plan a testing strategy early rather than pushing it to the end of the development. This can reduce unidentified defects, implicit requirements, and gaps. 

Frequent testing can also help to get continuous feedback from the business and stakeholders. This will help to increase the quality and stability of the product.

Automation- this can help to increase test coverage and improve the testing process. 

Team collaboration and agile ways of working help to build cross-functional teams where members will be tightly coupled thus increasing productivity and quality.

Regulate technical reviews often

Frequent Technical reviews by peers to identify and track functional and technical defects at the early stages. Formal Technical review (FTR) is a round table meeting where software engineers ensure that the developed software meets the predefined standards and requirements. 

The best time to do FTR is when the MVP is in place or when it is matured enough to assess. After the review, a detailed report should be prepared to analyze the product or how good it is to release to the market. 

UAT

End-user testing or UAT is mainly done by Product owners (PO) and Business analysts to measure and review the deliverables. Check the gaps, whether the product developed is in line with the requirements, and ensure the quality is met.

UAT is mainly done to check whether the product is ready for release to market. UAT helps to identify defects/ gaps missed during the unit and integration testing. Sometimes the QA misses or if there is a gap in the knowledge of the product then the POs will be able to identify during UAT.

A good test case or test user documentation will help to do a smooth UAT and the internal stakeholders will be able to mark and track the errors rectified and which all are pending to fix.

Increase automation tests

Automation tests using automation tools can considerably improve the quality of the software and also reduce the time to run the tests. Automation can help when you are planning to do:

1. Cross-device and cross-browser testing
2. Regression
3. Performance testing
4. Load testing

Automation saves time, reduces human errors, enhances test coverage, and helps in batch testing and parallel execution.

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)

CI helps to integrate the changes and enhancements into a product multiple times in a day. Each piece of code runs the integration tests whenever a change is made. This will detect defects and bugs quickly and also find them in the code very easily. A very good practice is to combine the CI with automation.

CD is mainly practiced for Agile methodology where you can release the changes to the customers quickly. With CD, you can automatically deploy the changes that pass the tests.

CI/CD requires continuous testing with the help of automation in a single system.

Exploratory and Ad hoc testing

It is like you are examining your product with no predefined test strategy or test cases. Exploratory testing is conducted on a fly without any plan or test design and it is executed quickly. Then the results are

Want to avoid legacy codes? Any codes that are not tested are classified as legacy codes. To avoid legacy codes, what can you do? The solution is quite simple- use test-driven development (TDD)!

There are many tools for testing JavaScript and React.JS framework, we are narrowing down our discussion to unit testing React using Jest and Enzyme.

What is unit testing and why is it significant?

Unit testing is an integral part of the software development process for assuring product stability. Through unit testing, you can be sure that all the components of your product are tested and ready to be live.

Why is unit testing significant in the software development process? It can:

• Improve the quality of code
• Quickly identify the future breaks in an always changing software requirements
• Bugs can be found at an early stage, and hence the cost of fixing bugs can be reduced

How is Jest similar to Enzyme?

Jest and Enzyme are resilient tools for testing React User Interfaces. These help in making sure that your React app has a user interface that is complying to the set requirements. Jest and Enzyme are developed and installed using Node Pack Manager. It has a large supporting community for finding your way out during any stagnation point during the app development process.

How is Jest different from Enzyme?

The purpose served by Jest and Enzyme is slightly different from each other. 

Jest is a complete feature-rich test framework. Jest can run test scripts on all your tests and the whole assertion library. Jest works well not only with React, but also with other frameworks. A JavaScript-based web application will use NodeJS to build the server, Jest allows you to run tests for your whole application with one test library.

Enzyme instead of serving a full testing library, it acts as the library that makes testing React components even easier. Enzyme can be integrated with different test libraries including Jest. 

If you are developing a React app, it will make more sense to use bothe Jest and Enzyme together for automated UI testing.

Unit testing React.JS apps using Jest and Enzyme: A step-by-step approach

Jest is a JavaScript testing framework centered on simplicity, that works on ultramodern framework and using pure JavaScript. Enzyme is used for testing React.JS components, and is a very easy-to-use and intuitive library.

Here is the step-by-step procedure for testing React app using Jest and Enzyme:

Installation

1. Start installing all the necessary libraries
2. Open the application and console using yarn or npm for installing Jest, Enzyme, and other required plugins
3. Apps created using create-react-app does not need to install Jest because it is already inbuilt
4. If there is no pre-installed Jest, you can use yarn add jest command
5. Finally, open the application code and set up the testing environment

Fixing test file

1. Open the setupTest.js file and configure the adapter to use Jest in the test environment properly
2. Once it is ready and saved, start considering test cases

Setting up test cases

1. Understand what is happening inside while testing an app and be sure of the cases that are very crucial for us to test. Make sure that all the components in the app are rendering
2. Verify whether the props passed through the components are correct
3. To check the logic, make sure that while clicking the buttons, the values change on both accounts
4. Finally test snapshots 

Now we have four more main groups to test and are briefed below

Components rendering check

1. Test whether your components in the first group are rendered correctly and group those using describe
2. Open the App.test.js file and pull all the tests. Bigger applications need to be put into different files and if the bigger applications have two components, it is ideal to create a test file for each of them separately.
3. Using shallow, make sure that components are rendering without children. If there is an additional element rendered in the component, define that element and use the .contain () method to see if it is present.
4. Using the userBalance object can helpb with moicks for the props that are used for the next step.

Passing props testing

1. Now pass the props to the components
2. Create another group with describe ()
3. Inside the group, set tests to check if the props are accepted, displayed correctly and notification props are passed as well
4. Make sure the props are passed to child components successfully
5. Test the logic of your application right now

Logic testing

1. Logic can be complicated as an important functionality like changing account values  on button click event is involved
2. Add another describe () group in the App.test.js
3. Use .simulate () method to simulate the click event on the selected button
4. Run tests to check functionality after a click event

Snapshots

1. Use additional plugin that was installed at the beginning enzyme-to-json
2. Define cases for App component, AccountBalance and Notification component
3. If there is an update in the UI, and the snapshot tests fail, you can use u to update the snapshots
4. Firstly done snapshots, new folders in your app called  __snapshots__ where it will be saved

Testing

1. Run the tests and test your application
2. Open the terminal and run the command yarn test or npm test
3. Make sure the tests are running and you will have the list of tests that passed and can see the tests to understand how the tests to see how it looks when it fails

Conclusion

With robust test frameworks like  Jets and Enzyme, your React App becomes more stable and enhances the quality of your code. It helps developers in fixing bugs faster. For complicated applications, these test frameworks will ensure that their codes work the way that it was expected, and QA engineers can reduce their efforts for  UI regressions.

The betterment of your software is ensured by using tools like Jest and Enzyme. When the projects get more complex, right tools like Jest and Enzyme can help you with managing that complexity.

 

JavaScript is a developer’s favourite, as we all know. But it is not free from errors, is it? When projects get longer and more complex, the probability of type errors from developers might climb.

The best software development companies will try to roll out error-free codes as much as possible. This is where TypeScript plays its part and helps coders in avoiding these probable pitfalls.

Let us now see how TypeScript helps developers in pushing projects smoothly in an error-free manner with its features.

What is TypeScript?

While running the codes, TypeScript adds static typing to JavaScript for identifying errors before running the code. Static typing implies the declaration of the type of value, function, etc. Thus, software developers can determine if the value we are passing to a function is valid or not.

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. TypeScript can be run in any browser or any engine, whether it be Node JS or any JS engine. With the guidance of TypeScript, developers can find errors during compilation and not at the time of running the application.

TypeScript has two parts:

• A syntax 
• A transpiler

Type Checking in React /React Native

React and React Native generally have 3 types of static type checking, namely PropTypes, Flow, and TypeScript. 

PropTypes is a built-in type checker which allows you to check props on a component, and Flow is a static type checker developed by Facebook. However, TypeScript is superior to Flow, and here is why:

• Import automatically using VS Code
• Best auto-fixing linter
• Error messages are notified better
• The flow requires file annotation using with //@flow
• Errors can get forgotten, and TypeScript can be helpful to check the types right field at the beginning.

How to add TypeScript to your React Native project?

1. Run ‘npm install –save-dev typescript react-native-typescript-transformer @types/react @types/react-native to install necessary dependencies.
2. This will add TypeScript, React Native TypeScript Transformer, and TypeScript typing to the project.
3. Add a TypeScript configuration file name named tsconfig.json with the required content.
4. Now add a configuration file named rn-cli.config.jds for the React Native TypeScript Transformer with the required content.
5. After this, the package should expect .ts and .tsx files and should use react-native-typescript-transformer for compiling source code.

How to migrate to TypeScript?

You can migrate your React Native project to TypeScript by changing the files in the root folder and the node modules .js except for the index.js should be changed to .ts or .tsx, if the files contain JSX. Make sure your script files have these aforementioned file endings. This can be done progressively by converting the existing code base. You only have to create new files in TypeScript, while legacy codes in JavaScript.

How to create a React project with TypeScript?

Creating a React Native project with TypeScript can be done either manually or automatically. Here are the steps involved in creating a React project with TypeScript:

Step1: Technical requirements gathering

Make sure you are ready with the following tools:

• Latest version Node.JS and npm
• A code editor like Visual Studio Code
• Create React App (CRA)

Step 2: Setting up React with TypeScript

• Download CRA as a nnpm package using the npx command
• Either, you can use React app versions with built-in TypeScript or by using –typescript as a parameter
• A project is created, the name of which can be changed by you. Make sure that files containing JSX should be a .tsx file, and files that contain the only TypeScript should be .ts files.
• The app’s root HTML file which is in the public folder called the index.html is injected with the React app using the standard line of code.
• Rename your files to .tsx or .ts before starting the server, which will generate the tsconfig.json file.

Step 3: Running the app

• Run your app in the development mode. Identify the root folder of your project and run the start npm script in the terminal
• Make sure that your root folder has the same name as your app and has the package.json file

You now have a TypeScript-enabled React app.

What are the pros of TypeScript in React Native?

Self-documentation:

You can write and maintain types you are documenting with values you expect in a function or component.

Simpler debugging:

TypeScript can tell what you did wrong and enables easier debugging. There will be no pass of a true string when you were expecting a boolean with TypeScript in place.

Easy refactoring:

TypeScript will help you with renaming a function or updating an argument, just in case you have forgotten.

A text editor or IDE  integrated: 

TypeScript is integrated with several editors that allow developers to define, autocomplete and tell you what to pass to a function or a component.

Larger apps can be structured: 

TypeScript can help you in defining and structuring how your app works and helps in avoiding any potential lock-ins your app can get into.

More guarantee to JavaScript:

With TypeScript, you will get even more guaranteed and valid JavaScript that will run on any target level you specify. Straight JavaScript, however, is not as valid or guaranteed as the TypeScript-powered JavaScript.

Easy adoption:

While writing codes, you don’t have to write 100% TypeScript. Adoption of TypeScript can be done even after testing waters, as valid JavaScript is still valid TypeScript.

Endnote:

TypeScript has gained immense popularity among developers over the past few years. Here are more reasons for you to stick to TypeScript:

• Components are easy to read and understand 
• JSX is better supported
• Common libraries are supported by default TypeScript
• Existing projects can gradually adopt it
• Static type checking and improved IntelliSense

So, what are your thoughts? Are you going to add TypeScript for your next React project, or do you want to migrate your existing React project to TypeScript? For hassle-free coding, you can always approach the React Native app developers at Webdura. Let’s enjoy a happy coding time together for making our React apps error-free! 

Microservices have revolved around the architecture and characteristics of businesses giving them the organizational advantages of:

• Easy code updating, adding features and functionalities without touching the whole application.
• Provision of using different technology stacks and programming languages for different elements by the teams.
• Dealing components independently, without having to scale the entire application as a single feature can give too much load, thereby reducing junk and cost of development.

Microservices or microservice architecture is an architectural category in which frequent and credible delivery of applications is enabled. According to a recent Statista survey, the microservices adoption level in organizations in the global context showed that 37% of the organisations adopted microservices partially.

In yet another survey, 45% of the organisation stated that data analytics/business intelligence applications use microservices. The cloud-native architectural approach has its technology stack like data management model and database and interacts with each other through APIs.

Did you know that eBay, Amazon, Twitter, PayPal are all examples of microservice architecture. Well, there are more interesting facts about microservice architecture. Let’s explore…

What is microservice architecture?

In microservices, a single application is made of many loosely associated and independently deployable smaller components in a cloud-native architectural approach. The microservices commonly include:

1. Own technology stack including database and data management model.
2. Interacting ability with each other through a combination of Rest APIs, event streaming and/or message proxies.
3. Organized by business capability with the line segregating services often referred to as a bounded text.

How microservices work?

As already mentioned, a set of services that act together and interact through APIs or data streams to make an entire application work is what microservices are all about. 

But how does the underlying software work? The coming session will brief you how the microservices work through simple explanations.

The teams who built the service with the underlying software or the hardware on which it is built is the primary focus of the working side of the microservice architecture. Your company’s teams involved in microservices have to be resilient with a strong communication channel  and dynamic service upgradings.

Kubernetes are not necessary components of microservices, but have helped in advancing the microservices to a large extent. Furthermore, cloud computing is yet another reason for the following progressions that happened in the microservices field:

• There is no need for users to have a robust computer system to run the necessary operations
• Companies using individual servers to run its service every time users run the application

In microservice architecture, the users’ system might be responsible for basic processing. But mostly these users will be responsible for sending and receiving network calls to other computers.

While using a microservice-made application, you should assume a certain number (say 10 or 15 or even more) in order to enhance the user experience.

Microservices are regarded as a sensible evolution of SOA and monolithic architectures, but there are visible differences between these architectures. 

How is microservice different from Monolithic architecture and SOA?

Monolithic architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are the most frequently drawn comparisons of microservice architecture.

Monolithic architecture composes large, tightly coupled applications whereas microservices have single applications from several loosely coupled services- this is the primary difference between the two.

Microservices and SOA has it’s disparities in terms of technical parameters particularly in terms of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). For SOA, there is an enterprise-wide measure to normalize the manner in which various web services in an organisation interact with each other, but microservice architecture is application-specific.

What is microservice architecture used for?

Microservices help in quickening applications development and are commonly built using Java. Other languages supported by microservice architecture include Golang, Python, Node JS, .Net etc. 

Some of the examples where microservice architecture is used are:

Website migration:

A complex application that is built on a monolithic platform can be migrated to a cloud-powered and container-based microservices platform.

Media content:

You can transfer and store images, videos and other media contents in a scalable storage system that can be directed to website or mobile applications using microservice architecture.

Transactions and invoices

Ordering and payment processing are separate units of services as a payment can be accepted if invoices are not working.

Data processing

Modular data processing services can be powered with cloud services with the help of microservices platform.

What are the characteristics of microservice architecture?

Multiple components

Microservices have multiple components and each component can be deployed, altered and redeployed separately without affecting the app integrity. This means that you need to change only one or more of the multiple component services when necessary and need not redeploy the application as a whole.

Business-centric

Unlike traditional architecture like the monolithic architecture that concentrates on UI, databases, technology layers or server-side logic, micro services concentrate on business abilities and priorities. Through cross-functional teams, each of them concentrate on one or more of individual services communicating through the message bus. The teams will follow the ‘you build it, you run it’ policy and have to assume complete ownership of the product in microservices.

Simple routing

Microservices receive requests, process them, and generate a corresponding response. For other products like ESB, there will be high-tech systems for message routing, choreography, and business rules. In microservices, the presence of smart endpoints process info, apply logic and manage routes through which information flows.

Decentralized

To solve common problems faced by the developers and to share the tools for resolving the problem, decentralized governance is supported by the microservices community. Micro service architecture has decentralised data management also, with each service managing its unique database.

Resistant to failure 

As microservices have different services communicating with each other, when one service fails it is quite possible that the other fails too. But microservices are designed to adjust with such failures by enabling the neighbouring services to keep running even when a service fails. Continuous monitoring will prevent risk of failure to a large degree.

Evolutionary 

Microservice architecture has an evolutionary design that is optimal for evolutionary systems as understanding the type of devices accessing your application  is totally unpredictable. Applications that were initiated on monolithic architecture can be upgraded to microservice architecture to meet certain requirements and enable interactions through API.

What are the benefits of microservice architecture?

• Developers can independently develop and deploy services.
• A small team is enough to develop a microservice.
• Different languages can be used for different services.
• Easy integration and automated deployment can be done.
• Developers can easily understand and modify, and hence a new team member can become efficient in no time.
• Latest technologies can be used.
• The code is centred on business capabilities.
• Faster deployment through quick initiating of the web containers.
• Change can be made to a particular service or group of services alone, instead of rebuilding the entire app.
• Failures can be isolated i.e. if one service fails, the other will continue to function.
• Third-party integration is easily scalable and integrable.
• There is no long term commitment to technology stacks.

The future of microservice architecture:

Microservices are potent ideas that offer many advantages in terms of developing enterprise applications. Developers and organisations have been in the quest for an architecture that could use APIs and microservices is the one viable solution they arrived at.

Microservices could resolve a number of segmentation and communication issues of the existing technologies. When you contemplate the complexity and communication requirements of SaaS or IoT or other modern technology applications, microservices have a very bright future to propose.