Mini programs are among the hottest programming scenes now and win the market’s favour, which makes many developers envious. For engineers with mature development experience, the knowledge is no hardship: a few reads and it is clear. But beginners are completely lost, unsure what to learn or how far. Here is a detailed reading of what mini program development requires.
1. HTML. HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language, one of the front-end trio of web development, responsible for the page’s skeleton. Like an animal’s skeleton, HTML is the frame that holds up the page’s layout.
2. CSS. The second of the front-end trio, short for Cascading Style Sheets, in charge of the page’s style: how the content is distributed, the backgrounds of sections, colours and other appearance matters are all controlled by CSS.
3. JavaScript, or JS. The third of the front-end trio, a dynamic scripting language. In the past JS was only a scripting language for web interaction, but with Google’s V8 engine and front-end frameworks such as Angular and React driving the separation of front and back ends, plus technologies like Node.js letting JS burst with energy on the server side, it has become one of the most active languages today.
4. A server language. If you are not a professional back-end developer, the back end is somewhat hard, with a steep learning curve. Still, developers are advised to learn a back-end language, at least to understand roughly the common frameworks and read their code logic. That not only enables good front-back cooperation but also helps settle responsibility when a mini program has bugs. Common server languages include PHP, Java, Python and ASP; choose one to learn based on what your company’s technology stack uses.
5. A database language. If the company’s data volume is small and the architecture simple, the database language is relatively easy: mastering some common commands and typical problems is enough for use. Common databases include the free MySQL, msSQL, MongoDB and Oracle.
These are the technical skills needed to develop a mini program. A developer who only wants to build front-end pages or back-end logic can choose from these.
If you want to develop a mini program’s front-end pages, the front-end knowledge above is the foundation, but learning it alone does not mean you can build a mini program right away. Since mini programs run on the WeChat platform, you also need WeChat’s development languages, which map onto the front-end ones: HTML corresponds to WXML, and CSS to WXSS. With front-end fundamentals, learning WeChat’s languages is fairly simple, since they are the originals in a different coat. Developers should also learn object-oriented programming ideas and the MVVM framework.
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