Web Development

The front office is the part visible to the user that they can interact with. Using the example of shop staff, the front office represents the salespeople in direct interaction with the customer.

The back office, on the other hand, is the hidden part of a product that enables its management and administration and is only accessible by an administrator. Using the shop staff example again, one component of the back office would be the stock management team.

It is thanks to the front-end developer that the user interface comes to life. Using various front-end development languages, they build the interface while considering accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO) and user experience optimization in collaboration with the UX and UI designer.

Analyzing client needs is at the heart of a developer's job, who must design and develop effective and relevant technical solutions.

Being a front-end developer also involves project management, collaboration and communication with designers and the rest of the team, as well as bug fixing.

On the technical skills side, front-end devs must master certain essential languages that we cover in the next question, but also a wide variety of tools such as CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Shopify...) or frameworks (React, Vue...).

In terms of "soft skills", developers must be agile, creative, rigorous, curious, have good interpersonal skills and ask questions (about how to do things and the client's needs). Being self-taught is a plus for upskilling more easily and continuing to learn.

These skills are not reserved for front-end developers, whether you're a web project manager, web integrator, web-designer or application developer (any digital profession that involves teamwork really...) these are THE skills to develop.

A framework creates a working environment with a set of tools and processes that simplify the developer's task.

Depending on the type of product being developed on the front-end, an appropriate framework should be chosen. At BearStudio, we mainly recommend 4 frameworks:

• React, a JS library created by Facebook and used by Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo, Instagram, WordPress Gutenberg and many others... It allows building reusable components in a user interface. React's biggest advantage is its large community which provides numerous libraries for developers.
• TanStack Start is a modern React project starter for quickly creating a performant, end-to-end typed web application. Based on the TanStack ecosystem, it combines routing, data management and server logic in a clear architecture, ideal for starting a scalable and maintainable React application.
• VueJS, a popular JavaScript framework known for its lightness and performance, it uses the Model-View-View-Model which enables bidirectional binding through data binding.

It's hard to talk about all the interesting frameworks out there, we can also mention Svelte, Angular, Ember.js, Solid, jQuery and many others...

Depending on the needs of a digital product, using an appropriate programming language is necessary, so it is essential to master the main languages to optimize back-end development. Moreover, each language has its own set of frameworks that can be useful in specific use cases.

Some popular back-end languages, their characteristics and frameworks:

• JavaScript (TypeScript), which makes web pages interactive and is used for web applications, is used by front-end developers but also by back-end developers when working with Node.JS. It is therefore possible to develop an entire web application using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. With JS you can use Node.JS and take advantage of various frameworks like TanStack Start or Next.js which allow creating web apps very quickly.
• Java, an object-oriented programming language that compiles to an intermediate language that can be read by a virtual machine. With Java you can use Spring which is suited for API creation (and thus reusable services for your web frontend and mobile frontend).
• PHP, an imperative object-oriented language for processing information from databases, forms or search engines. PHP allows using Laravel, perfect for creating APIs and Symfony which can serve HTML pages understandable by Google and thus optimized for SEO, unlike Spring, which is more suited for applications.
• Python, a programming language that is both easy to use and offers a very wide range of possibilities, it is notably used by Google, Uber and Reddit. With Python, you can use the Django framework to build APIs with the language's specifics (simplified calculations, data science, AI...).
• Ruby, an open source programming language that allows coding easily and quickly, it has been used by Twitter and Airbnb. With Ruby you can use Ruby on Rails which is a full-stack framework for creating web applications from A to Z.

Front-end development is BearStudio's core business, it represents the majority of our team's projects. Our team is made up of specialists in various areas of expertise, which ensures a high level of competence.

We are very sensitive to UI and UX challenges by placing user experience at the center of everything, a key aspect for quality front-end development.

We take accessibility into account when designing your products to ensure they are usable by everyone.

For us, good communication is essential to the smooth running of a project. We do our best to analyze your needs and respond effectively by providing feedback, taking input, conducting user testing and maintaining constant communication throughout the project.

We are also driving forces in the front-end development of several open source projects (Formiz, Start UI)

See you soon for your next project!

At BearStudio we use a stack that we master perfectly and that allows us to save a lot of time while offering nearly infinite possibilities.

We follow a rigorous testing process, and when necessary and depending on the required velocity, we perform unit tests and integration tests that allow us to deliver quality products.

We have experience and expertise in back-end development. We have dealt with performance issues on several occasions and connected various external services (payment, invoicing, file storage...) which save us time and money.

Our company's range of skills makes us a full stack team. We don't just produce a functional back-end, we also produce ergonomic and accessible graphical interfaces.