Chapter 2: Challenges Faced by Frontend Web Application Developers

Frontend web application developers are tasked with a tough challenge: ensuring that web apps work and perform exceptionally well across all digital channels (web and mobile). In an era when a new desktop web browser version is released into the market every month, with numerous mobile smartphones and OS versions to support, this task is quite hard. Frontend web developers should address both the quality and velocity, as well as the stability of their apps, continuously.

This chapter covers the key challenges modern web application developers face and their root causes. It is specifically designed to cover the constant debate about velocity, quality, and key non-functional challenges that are a pain for developers. By the end of this chapter, you will have an understanding about the common pitfalls in web application quality assurance that covers both the functional aspects, the non-functional ones like performance...