The framework comes with most components one would need for backend web development. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Laravel framework is that it uses PHP — the most popular web language.

Cocoon is also a very complicated framework. It relies on XML technologies such as XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformation Language) and others. Because it does so much, there are myriad ...

It's frustrating to say, but as web based software development has evolved, JSF has not. With so many other web frameworks available, such as Node.js, ClojureScript and Angular.js applications that ...

I only touched on a few of the web development tools, extensions, and frameworks, and skipped over some pretty major ones. Take a look at my October 2014 Visual Studio Magazine article, 14 Tools and ...