Hi there, welcome back to the developer series, today I will be writing about two Parts of any software or application. They are the backend and the frontend. I will tell the differences and the purpose of separating into frontend and backend. Application or software are similar terms, wherever Application is used mostly, and I will be using Application everywhere below.

The part of the software that end-user access mostly is the frontend, and the data is provided by the backend services.

So let’s understand each to know the difference between Backend vs Frontend with simple examples.

Backend Development

Backend simply says the part at the back or isolated from the user. The backend is the Backbone and crucial part of any application. It contains the data storage. All processing, retrieval, and manipulation of data are done at this part. You must have heard of databases. Databases are not backend but a part of backend + the code for processing this database. We use specific technologies for backend part like JAVA, PHP, NodeJS and more. We use databases like MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB and more.

You must have heard of Client Server; the backend is the Server for an application where requests are processed to send and query data. The Server or the backend part is controlled and accessed only by the system administrators or owners. Separating this makes the system secure and safe as the user does not know or see what is there.

Frontend Development

Frontend is the part what an end user sees. You can say, in normal terms the GUI part or the graphical part the end-user access to control a web application. It is the Client Side of the Client-server architecture where the Client interacts with the system. It is the most accessed part, from where the user submits and receive data. The Design part you can say is the frontend part + the control and inputs for interacting with the system.

All the data is displayed on the front end by technologies like HTML, CSS, ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap and more. We can have dynamic GUI using JavaScript or jQuery, Styling with Bootstrap and CSS. Graphics and text are a part of frontend.

Graphical representation of Backend vs Frontend Development

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