Frontend vs Backend Development

When it comes to the wild and wonderful world of creating websites and applications, there are two significant jobs that collaborate to make our online lives possible: frontend and backend development. Ever wished to know who creates those beautiful websites you visit or how your favourite apps perform so seamlessly? Well, you are about to receive a non-jargon explanation of how all this works.

Human to human–let us analyze it.

Frontend Development: What is It?

Consider the frontend as the face of a site. It is what you view, click and respond to on a web page.

It could be the color of a button, the design of a form, or a nice animation as you move your mouse around – frontend developers bring that to life.

Primary Technologies Frontend:

• HTML – constructs the framework (such as bones of a human body)
• CSS – styles it (clothes and appearance)
• JavaScript – provides life and movement (such as gestures, and facial expressions)

What does a Frontend Developer Do?

• Plans the structure and appearances of a site or application
• Ensures that it is phone, tablet and desktop friendly (responsive design)
• Don’t forget to make sure that buttons, menus, forms all work when clicked by the user
• Collaborates closely with UI/UX designers to ensure that things are pretty and pleasant to use

Real Life Example:

When you open an online shop and observe colorful pictures of products, a search field, filters, and an Add to Cart button – all that is frontend.

Definition of Backend Development?

What would be the heart and brains of the backend, in case the front end is the face. It is all that happens on the back-end, that the users never see- yet is so very essential.

When you press the button “Add to Cart” or press “Login”, your press activates backend processes. These may include verifying your log in information, saving your order, or renewing your profile.

Principal Technologies (Backend):

• Such languages as Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Node.js
• Data bases such as MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• APIs and servers

What does a Backend Developer do?

Creates and administrates the database

• Ensures secure exchange of data between users and servers
• links the site with various services (payment gateways, email services, etc.)
• Takes care of security, server setup and storage of data

A Real Life Example:

Consider the case when you log in to a food delivery app. You enter your user name and password. The backend will look whether your credentials are correct and will retrieve your saved address and will show your past orders. and that is all backend magic.

What is the relation between Frontend and Backend?

They are like dancing partners. Both are incapable of doing the entire show by themselves.

Suppose you are paying movie ticket online:

• The frontend will show the list of movies, timing and the Book Now button.
• The backend requests a database in real time with the seat availability and accepts your payment.
• The combination of the two makes the entire experience seamless, quick, and dependable.

Which Should be Better to Learn?

It is not clear which one is better- it depends on your interests and personality.

Select Frontend when:

• You are a fan of the visual and design
• You like to work with arrangements, colors, animation
• You have the desire to make things that users can touch and see

Select Backend when:

• You are fond of logic problems
• You are fond of data, security, and order
• You like developing systems that drive the product behind and what odds if you like both? You can be a minority, which implies that you work on both sides!

What are the Work Positions in Each?

Frontend Jobs:

• Frontend Developer
• UI Developer
• Web Designer react or angular developer

Backend Jobs:

• Backend Developer
• Database Engineer
• DevOps Engineer
• API Developer

Full Stack Jobs:

• Full Stack Developer
• Software Engineer
• Developer Web Application

No But Last Words: It is a Team Game

Frontend and backend are not competitors- they are colleagues. A good site or application must have both. The frontend attracts the traffic and the backend makes the system go.

So you are a creative person who loves to give interfaces life, or you are a logical person who loves to work in the engine room of applications, there is a spot in tech just for you.

Only one thing to keep in mind: there is no right side to choose. It is about knowing how the two parties converge to create fantastic digital experiences.

The next time you visit a site, make an order, or have a conversation in an application, spend a minute to admire both the brain and the face behind it. That’s the front end and backend – together at work.