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Front end development vs. Back end development

The website’s front end is everything you see and can interact with using a browser. So, creating this visual part is called front-end development. You could even say that designers creating user interfaces and planning experiences are also front-end developers, as they are working in collaboration on the same part of the project.
To create the front end, engineers use the combination of HTML (for basic page structure and content), CSS (for visual editing), and JavaScript (for making websites interactive). The same set of tools is used to create progressive web apps – mobile apps that look and feel like a native one but are created with the use of front-end technologies.

On the other hand, the back end is everything that happens, well, backstage. It contains servers where your web pages are located and the underlying logic that governs the website’s functions and processes.

The back end is built using a different set of technologies, including Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, and sometimes Javascript

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