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Glossary

Proper names

Note the capitalization in the following words. Obvious words are not included like: Google or Bing. Programming languages and frameworks are included though.

  • Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) - is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud
  • Angular (web framework) or AngularJS or Angular.js
  • API (Application Program Interface)
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • B2B (Business to Business)
  • B2C (Business to Customer)
  • BaaS (Backend as a Service)
  • Babel.js
  • CD (depending on context) Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Compact Disk
  • CI - Continuous Integration
  • CircleCI not Circle CI nor Circleci
  • CLI (Command Line Interface)
  • CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
  • CSV (Comma Separated Value)
  • DB (Database)
  • DBMS (Database Management System)
  • Django
  • Docker
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Express.js
  • Firebase
  • Flask
  • GCP (Google Cloud Platfrom)
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript
  • Jinja template engine (or simply Jinja)
  • JQuery
  • MongoDB
  • Nest.js
  • Node.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • ORM (Object Relational Mapper)
  • PHP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • React (web framework) or React.js or ReactJS
  • React Native
  • React Redux (or simple Redux)
  • REST (REpresentational State Transfer) - sometimes written as RESTful API. More info here
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails (or simply Rails)
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • SDK (Software Development Kit)
  • SOAP API (Simple Object Access Protocol) - is an application communication protocol. Compare with REST here
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)
  • SQLAlchemy - is a Python SQL toolkit and ORM
  • SQLite - is a relational database management system contained in a C library
  • TDD (Test Driven Development)
  • Vue (web framework) or Vue.js
  • Webpack

NB: This is a growing list (PRs are welcome. Please maintain the alphabetic order)