© Frank Zammetti 2018
Frank ZammettiPractical Webixhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3384-9_1

1. Better Web Development with Webix

Frank Zammetti1 
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA
 

To paraphrase a well-known expression, web development has come a long way, baby!

It’s been a long road getting from there to here, from the “dark days,” when web development was all about getting the best 15-year-old prodigy you could find to hack HTML for you, to now, where legions of professional developers create advanced, complex apps on the Web.

Before we get to Webix, the pièce de résistance of this book, let’s take a quick look back to see where we’ve been and where we as web developers are in the process of going.

Web Development: The Toddler Years

In the dark ...

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