Acronyms in Web Development

By Flavio Copes

A handy glossary of common web development acronyms like API, CORS, CRUD, DOM, and REST, with a short plain-English explanation of what each one means.

Tech is so full of acronyms that it’s hard to know them all.

Here’s a brief list of acronyms in Web Development and related fields:

• AI Artificial Intelligence
• AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
• API Application Programming Interface
• AWS Amazon Web Services
• CD Continuous Deployment
• CDN Content Delivery Network
• CI Continuous Integration
• CLI Command Line Interface
• CMS Content Management System
• CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing
• CRUD Create, read, update, and delete
• CSS Cascading Style Sheets
• CTA Call To Action
• DDD Domain Driven Design
• DNS Domain Name System
• DOM Document Object Model
• DRY Don’t Repeat Yourself
• FTP File Transfer Protocol
• GA Google Analytics
• GCP Google Cloud Platform
• GNU Gnu’s Not Unix
• GPL General Public Licence
• GUI Graphical User Interface
• HTML HyperText Markup Language
• HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
• IAAS Infrastructure As A Service
• IDE Integrated Development Environment
• IE Internet Explorer (RIP)
• IP Internet Protocol
• JSON JavaScript Object Notation
• KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
• LTS Long Term Support
• MDN Mozilla Developer Network
• ML Machine Learning
• MVC Model View Controller
• MVP Minimum Viable Product
• NPM Node Package Manager
• OOP Object Oriented Programming
• OSS Open Source Software
• PaaS Platform as a Service
• PHP PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
• PR Pull Request
• REPL Read Evaluate Print Loop
• REST REpresentational State Transfer
• RPC Remote Procedure Call
• SAAS Software As A Service
• SEO Search Engine Optimization
• SFC Single File Component
• SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
• SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• SPA Single Page Application
• SQL Structured Query Language
• SSH Secure SHell
• SSL Secure Socket Layer
• TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet protocol
• TDD Test Driven Development
• TLD Top Level Domain
• TLDR Too Long Didn’t Read
• VPN Virtual Private Network
• VPS Virtual Private Server
• W3C World Wide Web (W*3) Consortium
• WET Write Everything Twice
• WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
• XML Extensible Markup Language
• XSS Cross Site Scripting
• YAGNI You Ain’t Gonna Need It