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I have trouble understanding where all this demand for webapps come from. As a browser of the web, the only webapps I use are Google's email, maps, and docs. Wh
by bo1024 8y ago
I have trouble understanding where all this demand for webapps come from. As a browser of the web, the only webapps I use are Google's email, maps, and docs. What are all these webapps for and why doesn't HTML (maybe with a touch of javascript) suffice?
- nlawalker 8y agoI have a slightly different question - many of the answers in here make it sound like creating and deploying a new web app is practically a twice-a-week kind of thing for quite a few folks. What kinds of things are people so frequently creating and putting up in a hurry?
- z92 8y agoA large portion of the apps are intranet thing, instead of Internet. Business apps that are used in house. Plus almost all websites are a kind of web app. And these have a complex backend for managing the content. While we browse the front end.
- qqqwww 8y agoI think you are underestimating what is a web app. Think about any website that requires a password - that is a web app because presumably it will do some personalization. Any content serving site is at least backed by a content management system which is a web app.
- bo1024 8y agoTo me, "web application" is a front-end application that runs on the user's computer in a web browser. Having a back end that runs code doesn't qualify in my mind. Otherwise, basically any website qualifies as a web app, including one written in pure HTML, which doesn't make sense to me.