Ten simple rules for researchers who want to develop web apps.

Web applications, also known as web apps, are increasingly common in the research communication portfolios of those working in the life sciences (e.g., [[1]]) and physical sciences (e.g., [[2]-[4]]). Graph: Fig 1 Major components of a web application (web app).In this line drawing, the (a) user is shown interacting with the (b) front end of the web app. Whenever possible, build your web app using widely supported technologies and include a test suite (see Rule 2) to ensure that the web app code will function properly as an ensemble after you have made changes to the source code and web app dependencies (i.e., the software and code versions that your web app depends on to run). To ensure long-term maintenance and utility of your web app, determine who will be designated as the web app maintainer(s) [[58], [70]] and how long-term web app ownership and maintenance is defined [[71]]. Last but not least, web app developers can use web accessibility evaluation tools to scan their web app for accessibility issues and implement solutions to these issues via updates to front end design and back end scripts. [Extracted from the article]