Frontend Engineering

Frontend engineering is about building the code that is closest to your users.

Web technologies

For a Web application, frontend development means the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code that runs in the browser of everyone who interacts with your site or product.

Frontend engineering is an incredibly fast-moving field. Customers expect more and more from the applications they use, which pushes browser technology (both desktop and mobile) at a breakneck pace. At DabApps, we are constantly refining and improving our toolset and our strategies to ensure we provide the best possible advice on tools and standards to our clients.

We take a mature, up-to-date approach to frontend development.

React is a user interface library built by Facebook. Along with Flux, a pattern for managing data in a JavaScript application, it enables us to create extremely responsive, fast, complex interfaces in a productive, maintainable way. React has helped us create the fast, responsive user interface so vital to the AOGsmart Tool.

Angular is a full-featured JavaScript application framework created by Google. It's great for providing the structure for larger development teams to collaborate and has proved to be a great choice for the CrunchBoards project.

Bootstrap is a collection of components, originally created by engineers at Twitter, that serves as a starting point when building a user interface. It provides buttons, boxes, form elements and grid layout tools to enable us to build professional-looking applications quickly. We routinely use Bootstrap as a starting point for a custom frontend design and example include RAC Garage Compare, Multicriteria Mapping, Conceptualizer and Solutions inc.

Less is a set of extensions to CSS, adding useful features which allow developers to write more maintainable, extendable code.