Aspiring Dev here but still struggling to know the basics of Web Apps and Websites. Maybe you guys can help me to further understand everything. Thank you! 🙂
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A client makes requests. A server listens and responds to them. That’s the basics of a client-server relationship.
A client can be a web browser, or a mobile app, or even a desktop app. The server doesn’t have to care.
With a web-based system, they are typically HTTP requests and responses. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol specifies how requests and responses are structured as text, usually as a payload within TCP packets. TCP/IP is the basis for internet communication. Many modern web applications use REST, which is just another layer of standardisation that specifies how to use HTTP requests to interact with a web service to send and receive data or perform certain functions.
Any more detail than that and you’re starting to talk about implementation details of specific systems, which isn’t suitable for ELI5.
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