Software Development Terms Beginning with W
Web address
Section titled “Web address”A web address is a website’s specific location on the web.
Web API
Section titled “Web API”Web APIs connect a caller to the resource and services of a web-based system.
Web Host
Section titled “Web Host”A web host is an organization that owns servers and rents spaces to people who need to host their web documents.
Web Storage
Section titled “Web Storage”Web storage is the JavaScript API browsers provide for storing data locally and securely within a user’s browser.
Webpage
Section titled “Webpage”A web page is a single code file configured by an editor to interconnect with other documents on the World Wide Web (WWW).
Website
Section titled “Website”A website is a set (or collection) of web pages configured by an editor to interconnect with other documents on the World Wide Web (WWW).
while Loop Statement in JavaScript
Section titled “while Loop Statement in JavaScript”A while loop instructs the computer that while a specified condition is true, it should execute the while loop’s code block repeatedly.
Wildcard (RegExp)
Section titled “Wildcard (RegExp)”Regular expression’s wildcard operator (.) specifies that you wish to find any character that is not the newline or any other line terminator characters.
Word Boundary (RegExp)
Section titled “Word Boundary (RegExp)”Regular expression’s word boundary operator (\b) asserts that you wish to find the RegExp pattern at a word’s starting (or ending) boundary.
World Wide Web
Section titled “World Wide Web”World Wide Web (WWW) is the global connection between servers’ webpages.
Working Directory
Section titled “Working Directory”A working directory is a local folder you create to store all your project’s files.
As such, any folder you create anywhere on a system is a working directory.
Workstation
Section titled “Workstation”A workstation is a powerful computer (or laptop) used for technical and engineering works like software development, computer-aided designs (CAD), and other graphics-intensive projects.