Web Development For Beginners 2020 | Starter Pack

At the end of this blog you will have a rough idea on the prerequisites needed to start Web Development.

Code Editor

To start, you could even use notepad but in order to organize and manage large chunks of code an IDE/Code Editor could be very useful.

Some of the in demand IDE’s/Code Editors used in web development are:-

• PhpStorm
• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime Text
• Atom
• WebStorm
• Brackets

I personally prefer Visual Studio Code from the above listing because it’s popular among developers, supports almost any programming language, external plugins could be installed etc.

Web Server

A web server will be needed when server side programming is to be executed or to simulate an actual web hosting such as GoDaddy.

A Web server is a program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Web pages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers’ HTTP clients.

Some of the in demand Web Servers used in web development:-

• XAMPP
• WAMP

I personally prefer XAMPP from the above listing, because it is free and open-source cross-platform web server solution compared to WAMP which is built for Windows web development environment only.

Important: Please note that these selections were made based on my hands on experience with the tools. You could use any IDE or Web Server that you prefer. In the end all of the solutions work alike, so no worries.