List of Web technologies

Here is a list of Web technologies.

To give a concrete example, I show which ones are used on my Web Application site Ancient Brain. A different Web Application or Web site could use a different combination of technologies.

Used on Ancient Brain:

1. HTML
2. HTML5
3. CSS
4. Dynamic pages

5. Linux server
6. Apache
7. .htaccess

8. Javascript
9. jQuery
10. Ajax
11. JSON
12. WebGL

13. WebSockets
14. Node (for WebSockets)

Used on Ancient Brain, but might not in future:

1. PHP (might switch to JS on server-side)
2. SQLite (might switch to JS-compatible database)

Not used on Ancient Brain, but might in future:

1. Node (JS for entire server-side)
2. MongoDB (for JS-compatible database)
3. Web application frameworks

Not used on Ancient Brain:

1. XHTML
2. Static pages
3. SSI
4. CGI
5. Perl

6. Windows server
7. IIS
8. XML
9. SOAP
10. Flash

11. RSS
12. JSONP
13. Java

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Software stack

• Software stack (complete platform for applications)

• Popular web application stacks:
  • LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (and variants) (and Javascript on client)
  • WIMP - Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP (and variants) (and Javascript on client)
  • MEAN - MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js (Javascript on both client and server)

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Surveys

• w3techs.com - One-page view showing stats of most popular web technologies.

Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019.

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Note: Links on this site to user-generated content like Wikipedia are highlighted in red as possibly unreliable. My view is that such links are highly useful but flawed.