Web applications help streamline the various processes within organizations, thus improving efficiency of the employees and boosting the overall productivity. There are various types of web applications, each one posing to help organizations attain their end goals. Some of the known benefits of web applications include:

• Simple & easy distribution model for the end users
• Changes can be incorporated with immediate effect
• Easy to add new features within the application
• Reduction in total cost of ownership
• Room for scalability to ensure the application can fit the growth in number of users

Most enterprise and commercial web applications are developed keeping in mind the changing technology. Most of your users are present on more than one screen, which means you need to offer similar experience across the different channels. There are different types of web application needs from the business perspective, which has led to evolution of techniques and technology for web application development. Today there are many incredible platform and community that support web application development. With these tools and platforms, you can easily develop web apps that suit the business needs. Despite there being good resources and platforms available at the developer’s disposal, they face challenges while developing enterprise web applications.

Let’s take a quick look at some of the challenges faced when developing web applications for enterprises

Evolving Technology

JavaScript has evolved from being another platform for offering simple animation and form validation, to a platform that helps build real and powerful applications. With JS, developers can offer highly powerful applications. With proper community support this technology is not only evolving but also adding new and interesting features to its feathers which is bringing a change in the underlying language. The time has come for developers to keep up with these constant changes and evolve with the changing development environment, which can be quite challenging.

Complexity of Development

The web application development was simple and easy earlier, but the more powerful web applications became, the complex the development environment became. The modern web applications are composed of numerous technologies, approaches and developers ready to offer full stack applications. It is no longer about the programming language or the API but also about looking into performance needs, rendering engines and keeping up with evolving technologies, which has made the whole process complex

Difficult to Test

If  you have an application wherein the various sections cannot be separated, you will find it difficult to test the source code. It is always good to test in parts, and application should be developed in a manner that parts can be scripted for testing so that if there is an error you need to just correct that part. This also becomes easy when you are testing the code for multiple platforms and numerous devices.

Agile Methodology

The challenge is having a process that follows a methodology that helps in quick development and testing for the application. With Agile methodology, you can develop small sprints that can be developed, tested, and errors can be removed for these sprints. This methodology works only when key decisions are made late in the development process, as changes in core functionality requires the architecture to be changed. This can also add cost to the development, and can lead to poor quality codes. So, whether you are choosing Agile or other methodology, you should first research on how your development process is going to proceed.

Simple or Complex

What seemed like a simple idea suddenly becomes complex on execution. Planning for your idea can become quite taxing, if you are not sure what your app should look like. One of the biggest challenges of app development is to identify the number of details your app works on, and what all needs to be included in the app. The simple app grows into something highly complex owing to the number of details added to it.

Scalability

This is one of the main issues that most developers face when developing a web application. They develop for the idea that has been created for the moment, and forget the future in the moment. You need to develop an app keeping its scalability needs in mind. You will find a lot of technological and organizational blockers that make sharing difficult, and sharing makes it easy for you to approach app development and scaling needs with consistency.

These are just some of the issues that make web development for enterprises challenging. They need to be looked into before you proceed developing your idea.

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