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Frontend vs Backend Development

by pallavdas
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Today internet is filled with around 1.18 billion websites and it has become one of the essential components in the making or breaking of any business.

As the standard of websites has upgraded in the last decade so as the skillsets of web developers in the analyzing and execution of website.

But the most common question that puzzles every entrepreneur's mind is about what's at the core of frontend and backend?
#backend #development #frontend
  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Not sure what you mean.

    What you speak of has never puzzled me.

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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      If every entrepreneur does it and you do not, you must not be an entrepreneur, says logic.


      Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

      Not sure what you mean.

      What you speak of has never puzzled me.

      al
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    The core of the frontend and backend is simple. Frontend is first initial sale and backend are subsequent sales after that. Not much of a puzzle.

    Are you referring to how to get the initial sale, and the process of getting more backend sales?
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    • Profile picture of the author savidge4
      Originally Posted by Randall Magwood View Post

      Are you referring to how to get the initial sale, and the process of getting more backend sales?
      As a "Developer" they are probably not trying to discuss either of those options.

      Front end is what you see... the website itself. Back end is scripting etc like calculating postage for a zip code input.

      As time has progressed... and the coding and the ability of the "internet" has expanded.. things like personalizing content based on an end users location as an example would be backend development, Im sure you have seen the ads before that say "best whatever in <insert the state you live in>" or Live in <insert State> check for mortgage rates or insurance rates ( 2 examples I see often )

      Of the many variables I play with "Location" is hands down by far the the best at "connecting" with a site visitor. Even in "Real Life" I use location ( geography ) to better align myself with people I communicate with. The benign question "Where are you from?" can quickly be followed up with "Is that near X?" and you instantly start dropping a persons defenses in this - The same is true on the internet... it used to be creepy..but now its kinda normal.

      You can also get into things like recognizing repeat visitors, and if they have filled out a form or something say things like "welcome back <insert name>"

      Or if you goto say Amazon or eBay or Home Depot, you will see a block of "recently viewed items"

      Backend #1 makes the site functions work... and #2 can be a big part in acquiring new customers / clients, and #3 can very easily play in retention.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eliana Wilson
    The front-end of a site is the part that clients interface with. All that you see when you're exploring the Internet, from text styles and shadings to dropdown menus and sliders, is a combo of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript being constrained by your PC's program.

    A back-end engineer develops and keeps up with the innovation that controls those parts which, together, empowers the client confronting side of the site to try and exist in the primary place. Full-stack designers work, as for back-end devs, on the worker side of web programming, however, they can likewise smoothly communicate in the front-end dialects that control what content looks like on a webpage's client confronting side. They're handymen.
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  • Profile picture of the author RowebCo
    Frontend is basically the shell of the site/application. Basically what the user sees. Backend usually has to do with databases and the behind-the-scenes of a site/application. That's what "Full-Stack-Developers" mean. Basically they know frontend code as well as backend code.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marx Vergel Melencio
    Pallavdas,

    Originally Posted by pallavdas View Post

    But the most common question that puzzles every entrepreneur's mind is about what's at the core of frontend and backend?
    Well, at least the entrepreneurs I know aren't puzzling over this.
    • In my particular group of peers, we define "frontend" in this context as form or user interface. Be it technological or conceptual.
    • Backend is on the other hand functionality. Again, be it technological or conceptual.
    • And for us, "user experience" is the synergetic integration of these.

    Though if you mean conceptual core, then that really makes it much more complicated.
    • For example, form or user interface is largely based on measureable target viewer and niche group behaviour. That's of course aside from other things, such as what we currently know about relevant content consumption methods and cognitive workload parameters that apply to an arbitrary niche user market.
    • Same thing with functionality.
    • And user experience is of course more complicated.
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  • Profile picture of the author spartan14
    Well its a little complicated for me can you elaborte a little ? What you mean by frontend and backend
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    We could mebbe use an ansa from Kim Kardashian here.


    I believe her backend development syncs with frontend promo to rival Pepsi.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maca56
    I don't know, but can give you some information you need.
    I will try to do that.
    As far as the Front End is concerned. This is what you can see.
    It's the layout, it's the animations, it's the clickable buttons and forms to fill in the data.
    This is created with HTML/CSS and JavaScript programming languages.
    As for the Back-end. It's what we don't see. These are the server side, databases, payment systems, etc.
    Every back-end expert must be able to code PHP, Python, Rudy, Java.
    This is the basic information about front-end and back-end development.
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