Welcome back, today in the web application development series, part 5 we look at how WordPress makes the task easier than ever before. Previously in part 4 we covered the components that make up web applications, which you can find here if you missed.
Of course they are many tools in contention but of all why WordPress?
Truth be told for over a decade, developers have used and are still using a Model View Controller aka MVC pattern architecture to develop web applications. Giving security, separation of interface from logic, maintainability and scalability as reasons for the pattern’s popularity. Popular web applications providing this architecture are Laravel, cakePHP, CodeIgnitor among others.
WordPress follows a MAP aka Monolithic Architecture Pattern which is defined as, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform by wikipedia.
Not to conclude that MAP methodology is better than MVC in comparison. The fact is that both are good fit for different scenarios. My major reason to use WordPress is to help someone learn an alternative way of powering web applications if  they know of another way.
To come up with a fully functional application we shall have develop a theme and plugin, thereby learning about developing a WordPress theme and plugin.
The tutorial will also offer a good opportunity to discover WordPress plugins you might have never heard of.
WordPress comes with
A database
Already available to us is the a small but powerful WordPress database with fewer tables than other systems for which you have to create your own database. WordPress’ consideration to introduce meta tables is one of the best things about it.
User management and authentication
Additionally one of the most hardest part about developing web applications is the authentication system, which can easily be broken if developed poorly.  This is what we have to be happy about with WordPress, they provide an easily extendable yet secure authentication system.
Back-end user interface.
For the biggest part of our development we shall engineer the front-end system because WordPress has got us covered with a fully customizable back-end user interface called the WordPress Dashboard.
Let’s tune in next time and get the job done.
Meanwhile you can take a look at Custom post types, custom fields, custom taxonomies, theme and plugin development in WordPress by searching in google. I recommend reading articles of codex.org and wpbeginner.com.
Cheers!