Using modern web frameworks when developing an education application: a practical approach

Nowadays the technology evolves rapidly and with it, the computing devices are becoming more powerful, flexible and capable of performing complicated and tangled tasks. This results in a significant shift in the way applications are designed and developed. Yet modern web frameworks manage to cope with this client-side complexity by adopting a mindset oriented towards the design of robust and complex applications that can be delivered quickly with a high level of security, scaled easily, and extended simply. As part of our research on developing an educational application, that supports university students enrolled in Web development course, we made an overview and comparison of the existing technologies, in terms of frameworks, libraries, programming languages and deployment options, adopting a practical approach. Apart from outlining the results, a sample blueprint of the application architecture of the educational application is also proposed in this paper.