The web continues to get more ingrained in people's daily lives than ever. People now use it for everything from reading news to banking and shopping. As ever, the demand for web developers is high, and the scope of what web designers can do is widening. Everyone is wondering what web development has in store for them in the future. Futurists predict that it may weave its way into more areas of human beings. These are incredible trends that are likely to shape the web design landscape in 2019.

Yarn Package Manager

Package managers have over time become popular in frontend JavaScript communities. These tools make it easier for web designers to uninstall, update, install, and configure code modules within any app. Package managers manage various dependencies code modules and communicate with code modules registry to update applications.

Static Website Generators

These are unique tools that create sites from plain texts and are usually stored in files instead of databases. Web pages built by static generators allow for advantages such as ease of deployment, security, handling of traffic surges, and increased speed. Unfortunately, static generators don't have user content or real-time content, which have become a must in web development. Static generators are becoming a way of life for web developers and are making it easier to deploy templates and content than ever. Futurists think that static web page developers might soon become an interesting trend to watch in the web development space.

Internet of Things

It refers to a technology where non-internet connected devices connect to send and receive data. These devices can include sensors on motors, kettle, trackers, toaster, or sensors embedded in the walls to detect weaknesses and cracks. Though web developers may not participate in the creation of such devices, the chances are that they're involved in the development of apps that display, analyze, and use the data in those gadgets. Tech giants are already working on APIs that web developers can use to communicate with

IoT-Enabled Devices

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence will always feature in any agenda about the future of technology. In the past few years, the field of AI has experienced a lot of advances. Tech giants led by Facebook, Microsoft, and Google are already releasing AI technologies for public use. Large corporations are already using artificial intelligence to rank higher on search results or identify damaged or inaccurate articles on their web pages. Though tracking workers can sound like babysitting, it can be as overwhelming as accounting, but companies are now leveraging AI-enabled HR software to rein on their PTO lifecycle approvals and requests to manage their workforce. With increased access to necessary AI development tools, futurists expect web developers to start using artificial intelligence in different and new ways down the road.

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is another topic that has to surface in any discussion about the future of technology. It has already started to sweep the web development landscape. Virtual reality brings exciting and new possibilities in the web development world, and this might not stop any soon. Tech giants such as Mozilla and Google are now using APIs to help virtual reality technology transition to the web development space. Experts expect more tech-savvy companies to use virtual reality in various applications including virtual real estate tours and news coverage.

Angular 2 and Beyond

The launch of Angular 2 in 2016 brought a lot of changes including initiating the redesigning of Google's frontend JavaScript. It uses features of JavaScript ES6 to write an application in TypeScript and move them towards a component-driven architecture. Besides its release, Angular 2 now has regular and defined release schedules. Angular two intends to release updates after every six months, which means that the web development industry will witness more changes down the road.

The web space is a fantastic industry where nothing stands still for an extended period. Information is changing, and the way people deal with it will always evolve along with it. The future holds exciting developments for web technologies, and trends such as virtual reality, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence might become game changers in the web development landscape in 2019.