This is the first of a three-part app development workshop series designed to help developers understand technologies like Node.js, GraphQL, React, Netlify, and JavaScript to kickstart their app development portfolio. In this post, we’ll cover the fundamental concepts of website applications and introduce DataStax Astra DB as your free, fast, always-on database based on Apache Cassandra®.
In the U.S. we spend almost 88% of our mobile internet time buried in apps like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and games. With nearly a million new apps released each year and 218 billion app downloads in 2020, learning how to build them is an essential step in any front-end developer’s career.