This developer platform consists of tools, programming languages, and libraries that enable our developers to build a variety of applications and services that run on macOS, Linux, Windows, and Docker. A key benefit to ASP.NET is that it allows our team to build highly dynamic sites, applications, and services.

Blazor is a cutting-edge framework that allows developers to build interactive web UIs using C# and .NET instead of traditional JavaScript, offering a seamless integration between server and client-side code for creating dynamic single-page applications (SPAs).

HTML5 is a markup language our team uses for structuring and presenting content on the internet. The current specification, known as the HTML Living Standard, is maintained by a consortium of the major browser vendors (Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft). HTML5 includes detailed processing models that extend, improve, and rationalize the markup available for documents and introduces markup and application programming interfaces (APIs) for complex web applications. We use HTML5 for cross-platform mobile applications because it includes features designed with low-powered devices in mind.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the internet, alongside HTML and JavaScript. This style sheet language was designed to enable the separation of presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in structural content.

As a programming language, JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the entire internet (alongside HTML and CSS). Over 97% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for web page behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. And all major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users’ devices. It’s worth mentioning that although Java and JavaScript are similar in name, syntax, and respective standard libraries, the two languages are distinct and differ greatly in design.

This programming language was developed and is maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language. TypeScript was designed for the development of large applications to JavaScript. As it is a superset of JavaScript, existing JavaScript programs are also valid TypeScript programs. TypeScript supports definition files that can contain type information of existing JavaScript libraries, much like C++ header files can describe the structure of existing object files.

Our developers use this open-source, front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page, mobile, or server-rendered applications with frameworks like Next.js. React is particularly useful because it updates and renders components when data changes (as opposed to imperative programming). The selective rendering provides a major performance boost and saves the effort of recalculating the CSS-style, layout for each page and rendering for entire pages.

This TypeScript-based open-source web application framework is led by the Angular Team at Google (and by a community of individuals and corporations). Angular allows for development across all platforms, so we can reuse your code to build apps for any deployment target, including mobile web, native mobile, and native desktop. This tool is highly scalable and works incredibly well with progressive web-based apps.