What is “front” vs “back end” in programming?
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The front end is all the stuff that users interact with. The back end is all the stuff that does the actual work, but the user doesn’t get to directly see.
Imagine it like a restaurant. The wait staff and the dining room are the front end, while the back end is the kitchen.
This division is most obvious in web-based software, where the front end is the webpages that the users get to see, and the javascript programs that run in them. The back end is all the software that runs on the servers that the companies own.
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