Glossary

Laravel

Laravel is a powerful and flexible PHP web framework designed for building modern web applications, offering a rich set of features including routing, authentication, and database management.

Nova

Laravel Nova is an elegant and customizable administration panel for Laravel applications, providing developers with a simple way to manage data, resources, and relationships through a clean user interface. It integrates seamlessly with Laravel’s existing features, offering tools like metrics, filters, and custom fields for building complex admin dashboards.

Lumen

Lumen is a lightweight PHP micro-framework based on Laravel, optimized for speed and used to build fast APIs and microservices. Although now deprecated, it is recommended to use Laravel for most projects.

WordPress

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) built on PHP and MySQL, widely used for creating websites and blogs, offering a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a customisable, open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress, allowing users to create and manage online stores with flexible functionality.

Nuxt

Nuxt is a framework built on top of Vue.js that enables server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation, and powerful routing for building performant and SEO-friendly Vue.js applications.

Vue

Vue is a progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications (SPAs), known for its simplicity and flexibility.

React

React is a JavaScript library for building fast and interactive user interfaces, particularly known for its component-based architecture and virtual DOM rendering.

Ionic

Ionic is a hybrid mobile app development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a native look and feel.

Elementor WP

Elementor WP is a drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress that enables users to design custom layouts and pages visually, without writing code.

CSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation of web pages, including layout, colors, and fonts.

HTML

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the standard language for creating web pages and web applications, defining the structure and content of a webpage.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic programming language used primarily to create interactive and dynamic content on websites, and is widely used for front-end and back-end development.

PHP

PHP is a popular server-side scripting language used primarily for web development, powering platforms like WordPress, Laravel, and many content-driven websites.

MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) used for storing and managing structured data in web applications.

Node.js

Node.js is a runtime environment that allows JavaScript to be executed server-side, enabling fast, scalable, and event-driven applications like APIs and real-time services.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security service that provides content delivery networks (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS management to optimize and secure websites.

AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a cloud computing platform providing scalable infrastructure, storage, and services such as compute power, databases, and AI tools for building and hosting web applications.

Laravel Vapor

Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform built for Laravel, allowing developers to deploy Laravel applications on AWS Lambda with auto-scaling and server management.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider offering scalable virtual private servers (Droplets) and cloud services tailored for developers to host web applications and databases.

PayPal

PayPal is a widely used online payment gateway that allows businesses and individuals to send and receive payments securely over the internet.

Stripe

Stripe is a payment processing service designed for developers, providing APIs to handle online payments, subscriptions, and billing for eCommerce and SaaS platforms.

WP Engine

WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting service that offers high-performance hosting, security features, and developer tools specifically tailored for WordPress websites.

Open AI

OpenAI provides AI-driven services and APIs, such as GPT models, that allow developers to integrate advanced artificial intelligence into their applications for tasks like natural language processing and machine learning.

Tailwindcss

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that allows developers to quickly style user interfaces by composing custom designs using predefined classes directly in the HTML.

Apache

Apache HTTP Server is one of the most widely used open-source web servers, providing a stable, flexible, and secure platform for hosting web content.

Nginx

Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy server, known for its ability to handle high traffic loads efficiently, often used for load balancing and serving static content.

Docker

Docker is a platform that enables developers to create, deploy, and run applications inside lightweight, portable containers, simplifying deployment and scaling across different environments.

Serverless

Serverless is a cloud computing model where developers build and deploy applications without managing the underlying infrastructure, allowing code execution on-demand in response to events (e.g., AWS Lambda).