This article is based on my experience. Follow me on Instagram: @darioevaristobellotta
1. Normal websites e.g. company pages
What is been used for ‘normal websites’ like a gym, a tattoo studio or a portfolio?
- WordPress or other CMS like Typo3 or Joomla but mainly WordPress
- CSS Frameworks mainly Bootstrap or other similar like Tailwind
- JQuery as JavaScript libraries
- Or just Vanilla Websites without a CMS only Bootstrap and JQuery but it’s not that popular
- No Code Websites there are a lot of no code websites too with as example WordPress + Elementor or with Wix.com but i wouldn’t recommend to do it

* WordPress is used in 40% -45% of all the websites, Joomla in 2% – 3%, Drupal in 1% – 2%, Magento in 1% – 2%, Wix in 1% – 2%, Sqaurespace in 1% – 2%, TYPO3 in 1%
(I use MDB Bootstrap https://mdbootstrap.com/, WordPress: https://wordpress.com/, JQuery: https://jquery.com/)
2. Bigger Projects websites / webapps
For big projects like Facebook, Twitter or other webapps like Canva, or for big clients you will use:
- JS Frondend Frameworks like React, Angular, Vue or Svelte JS
- JS Backend Frameworks like Node, Next or NestJS
- I know that some big websites like hosting companies are build with PHP as foundation

* React.js in 40% of all websites, Vue.js in 30%, Angular,js 20%, Sveite.js 5%, Ember.js 3%, Backbone.js 1%, Meteor.js 1%
(ReactJs: https://reactjs.org/, AngularJS: https://angular.io/, VueJS: https://vuejs.org/, SvelteJS: https://svelte.dev/)

* Node.js in 60% of the websites, Next.js in 20%, Nest.js in 10%, Koa.js 5%, Hapi.js 3%, Fastify 2%
(Node.js: https://nodejs.org/en, Next.js: https://nextjs.org/, Nest.js: https://nestjs.com/, Koa.js: https://koajs.com/, Hapi.js: https://hapi.dev/, Fastify.js: https://fastify.dev/)
3. Online Shops
- Shopify my favorite because it feels always the best as a user
- Shopware no free option this is paid only upfront
- WordPress + Woocommerce free

* Woocommerce in 30% of all websites, Shopify 20%, Magento 12%, Big Commerce 4% – 5%, Shopware 2% – 3%, Others like (including PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix, etc.) Remaining percentage
(Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/, Shopware: https://www.shopware.com/, Woocommerce: https://woocommerce.com/)
Differences:
We make differences in Front and Backend Development
Frontend = HTML, CSS, JS (everything that works on the user side) React.js, Vue.js Angular,js and so on
Backend = PHP, MySQL, JSON etc (everything that works on the server) Node.js, Next.js, Nest.js and so on
Vanilla Websites
I mentioned vanilla websites in the first section it’s mainly just a combination of PHP, Bootstrap and JQuery without anything but its not that popular anymore. For a NFT Website for a friend of mine as example I did it vanilla so there are some usecases for it.
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