Wow, very interesting introduction to modern web development for someone from 10 years ago in 2007, to 2017. This is what I was looking for… sort of, but couldn’t find from a web search.
Okay, point in hand here. The article still doesn’t cover enough of the history of web development from a broad picture.
20180719/https://medium.freecodecamp.org/web-development-explained-to-a-time-traveler-from-ten-years-ago-600fad81170d
Oh, good point here! Redefinition of the word “API.” Of course, it didn’t happen until later, when the developer community grew in tandem.
Sebastián Alvarez wrote:
No mention of (web) APIs? (And, yes, REST was defined in 2000 and SOAP APIs were around in 2007, but API meant something different then than it does now.)
David Piepgrass wrote:
When I started reading this I expected to read more about Node.js, TypeScript, Sass, service workers, push notifications, WebAssembly, etc., but apparently that stuff is a mere fraction of what has changed — details worth just a passing mention at most!