43 Useful and Time Saving Web Development Kits and Frameworks

Developing Web applications and/or websites is sort of time consuming and tedious job for every developer. In our fast and busy life we really need something that will save our time, developing web applications. You might not know that there are some useful and time saving web development kits and frameworks which acts as a base for your projects. So here at Web Designer Pad we have collected 43 Useful and Time Saving Web Development Kits and Frameworks that will make your busy life easier. OK then, enjoy the following useful and time saving web development frameworks/kits and develop something best.

Front-end

HTML5 boilerplate

HTML5 Boilerplate helps you create fast, adaptable and robust websites or web apps. Save Time and Create websites or web apps with Confidence using HTML5 boilerplate.

JqueryUI

jQuery UI is a organized set of user interface interactions, themes effects, widgets built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library and that’s why I love jQuery. Whether you are building highly interactive web applications or just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice for you.

AngularJS

AngularJS is powered by Google. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your app. The ensuing environment is extraordinarily readable, expressive and quick to develop.

Backbonejs

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with custom events, key-value binding, views with declarative event handling, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

EmberJS

Ember.js is a framework for creating ambitious web applications that is built for productivity. Designed with keeping developer ergonomics in mind. Its friendly APIs can help you getting your job done fast.

CanJS

CanJS is a flexible, powerful and fast Javascript library.

YUI library

YUI is an open source and free JavaScript-CSS library for building richly interactive web applications.

Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap is the Front-end Framework that is Intuitive, Sleek and Powerful. It can be used for faster and easier web development.

Gumby framework

Gumby Framework has a latest version called Gumby 2 which is built with the power of Sass. If you you don’t know what actually Sass means then let me tell you that it is a powerful CSS pre-processor which allows us to develop Gumby itself with much more speed and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of the Gumby Framework.

Xtyle

You can create stunning web applications, everywhere using xtyle. Xtyle uses grid system to help you build powerful layouts.

NinjaUI

NinjaUI is the jQuery plugin for lethal interaction. It is capable of matching the look and feel of your site. NinjaUI is usable that means Keyboard, touch, mouse and speech accessible. It is fast, intuitive and compatible with all major browsers.

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. CoffeeScript have a golden rule and that is “It’s just JavaScript”.

Stylus css

Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS. Stylus Css has features such as Optional colons, Optional semi-colons, Optional commas, Character escaping, TextMate bundle and much more!

Less css

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, operations, functions and mixins. LESS runs on both the server-side (with the help of Node.js and Rhino) or client-side (on modern browsers only).

SaSS css

Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, selector inheritance, mixins, and more. It is translated to well formatted and standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

Cappuccino

This Cappuccino is not actually a part of Italian coffee but it is an open source framework that makes building desktop-caliber applications that runs in a web browser very easy .
Cappuccino is a powerful framework which makes creation of advanced web apps easy. With just a few lines of code you can have an app built with full undo and redo, drag and drop,  truly awesome table views and every modern UI appearance and behaviour you might expect on the desktop.

Jasmine

Jasmine is a behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. Jasmine does not depend on any other JavaScript frameworks. It does not need a DOM. Jasmine also has a clean and obvious syntax.

Mocha

Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework that runs on node and the browser. Mocha makes asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing flexible and accurate reporting.

QUnit

QUnit is a powerful and easy to use JavaScript unit testing framework. QUnit is usually used by the jQuery UI, jQuery and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code.

CodeKit

Codekit is like Steroids for Web Developers.  CodeKit helps you create websites faster and better. One-minute teaser video is a good place to start with CodeKit.

Grunt

Grunt is the JavaScript Task Runner.

Yeoman

Yeoman is more than just a tool. Yeoman is a workflow. Yeoman is a collection of tools and best practices working in harmony to make developing for the web even better.

ComponentJS

ComponentJS is a stand-alone MPL-licensed Open Source library for JavaScript. ComponentJS is a  powerful run-time Component System for structuring HTML5-based Rich Clients.

TodoMVC

Helps you selecting a MV Framework.

Backend

PHP:

Book For PHP Beginners

Laravel Framework

Laravel is a web application framework with elegant and expressive syntax. Laravel believes that development must be a fun, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel seeks to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, authentication, sessions, and caching.

CodeIgniter Framework

CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It’s powering the next generation of web applications.

Drupal

WordPress Framework

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. I would like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Yii Framework

Zend framework

Zend Framework is the most popular framework for modern and high-performing PHP applications.

Joomla Framework

Joomla is a Content Management System as well as a Framework. Here’s the short Intro Video about Joomla.

JavaScript:

nodeJS

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily creating scalable, fast network applications. Node.js makes use of an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model which make it lightweight and effective, impeccable for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Express Framework

Express is a flexible and minimal, Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for building single, multi-page and hybrid kinda web applications.

Socket.io

Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device alongwith blurring the differences between the various transport mechanisms. It’s care-free realtime 100% in JavaScript.

Meteor

Meteor is an open-source platform that is intended for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.

Derby

MVC framework makes it easy to write and create realtime, collaborative applications that can run in both browsers and Node.js.

TowerJS

Small components for manipulating data, building apps and automating a distributed infrastructure.

Geddy

A simple, structured web framework for Node

Mojito

A JavaScript MVC framework for mobile applications that enables you build device-independent and high-performance HTML5 applications running on both client and server with Node.js.

Python:

Flask

Flask is a micro framework for Python that is based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions.

Django

Django is really a high-level Python Web framework that encourages clean, pragmatic design and rapid developmen.

Ruby:

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is the web framework that is open-source and optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.

Sinatra

Sinatra is a Domain Specific Language for creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Java:

Hibernate (ORM)

Hibernate is actually a collection of similar projects enabling developers to utilize POJO-style domain models in their applications in ways extending well beyond Object/Relational Mapping.

Play framework

The Higher Pace Web Framework For Java and Scala

Introduction to Play Framework for Java developers from playframework on Vimeo.

Conclusion

So have you loved any of these frameworks, if you said yes then why not share these frameworks with your friends. I hope that you have learnt and developed something best with one of these frameworks. Please disqus what do you think about any of the framework mentioned in above article. You can share the link of your works that you have developed using one of these framework below in the comments. Thanks.

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