Evolution of Front-End Architecture

A post on history of architectural styles and patterns used in web front-end apps.

Before Architecture

• Since 1975, we have internet (thanks to DARPA),
• Since 1991, we have HTML (thanks to Tim Berners-Lee),
• Since 1994, we have CSS (thanks to Håkon Wium Lie),
• Since 1995, we have JavaScript (thanks to Brendan Eich).

Modern Web

1. Stucture (HTML), Style (CSS), Logic (JavaScript),
2. Bunch of Handlers,
3. Modules,
4. MVC (Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Ember),
5. Event-sourcing, Uni-directional data-flow (Flux),
6. MUV (ELM, Redux).

References

1. History of HTML on Wikipedia,
2. Brief history of the Internet from Internet Society.