Sitemap
Harrison

Harrison

Member-only story

Exploring the World of Web Development: Frontend vs Backend

2 min readNov 29, 2024

Web development is a rather vast and a rapidly growing profession responsible for the design of web sites and applications. It is broadly divided into two key domains: Frontend and Backend. Both are the type of their own and play an independent role in developmental process of the web but when combined, provide harmonized input of valuable and interfacing. The distinctions of this two subjects are significant to be remembered by students who want becoming a developer and by persons who wants own their business and develop site.

Press enter or click to view image in full size
Photo by Rashed Paykary on Unsplash

What is Frontend Development?

Web frontend or simply frontend is the part of the web development that concerns the looks of the site or of the application; the aesthetic aspect of the application is divided into the frontend. It relates to the content, options or use of which intended user confronts on the site or in any Web-based tool they plan to create. What is the purpose of frontend development is to create practical layouts, navigation interfaces which are reversible.

Frontend developers use several core technologies:

HTML (HyperText Markup Language): Explain the structures concerning web information.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): Refers the content in terms of layout, color and the typeface to be applied on the…

--

--