Decoding Web Development: Frontend vs Backend Explained

Web development is divided into two main categories– frontend and backend. Both frontend and backend development work simultaneously on a website or a web application by using different tools, techniques, and programming languages. For users, frontend development is what they see and use to actually “interact” with the site or the app, but for developers, backend development is how everything works. In this blog, we will have a detailed look at the two sibling terms of web development:

Introduction

Imagine you’re having a house built for you. The part of the house you can see and experience— the walls, windows, doors, and paint— is like the frontend of a website. It’s the section that visitors to your website will see and interact with. But behind those walls, there’s a whole host of systems— pipes, electricity, and an infrastructure that holds up your house out of sight— that’s the backend. It’s what keeps everything running. Here’s what each does:

What is Frontend?

Frontend is the part of a website or app that you see and interact with. It is the design, colors, and buttons you click, as well as the text you read. If you consider your favorite website or app – all what is displayed on the screen is its frontend. This deals with the part of the website or application users directly interact with.

What is the Backend?

As its name suggests, it lets you know the part of a website or an application that is hidden from the viewer’s eye. It is where data resides, gets analyzed, and controlled. Actually, it is the same as the brain. It is invisible, which implies that nobody can notice it, but the work will not stop. It is responsible for creating order in your surroundings. It also incorporates databases, servers, and codes which make all the mechanisms work in a seamless manner.

Frontend and Backend Web Development:

Frontend Web Development:

This involves establishing the design of the page or the layout of the website, production of graphics, images, and any other items that would make the face of the website, and for further checking, whether the developed or adopted layout is fitting for presentation on various devices.

Frontend developers are the Architects as well as Painters of the global world of computers and devices. They aim at creating the part of a website or an application that has to be seen and the part that has to be clicked. These include such forms as the language used in the Internet (HTML), styles (CSS), and scripts that make it possible to create an attractive and easily negotiated site (JavaScript). They assert that appearance and texture as appreciated by the user are important to them. Treat them also as those who are assigned to the interior design of the house.

What they do:

• Create how the website or the App should look like.
• Organize content in a structure like headings, paragraphs, images, etc through HTML.
• When it comes to the styling of the content of the layout involves CSS to edit the color, font, and spacing of the context.
• Interactive parts in your themes – buttons, animations, forms, etc should be made in JavaScript.

Skills:

• Creativity and design sense.
• Understanding user experience (UX).
• Basic knowledge about HTML, CSS, and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

Example: Take an example of a shopping website, the images of the products, the buttons, the search bar – all these are the frontend.

Backend Web Development:

Backend web development deals with the back-end application and Framework, databases, APIs, etc. This ranges from the handling of data storage and retrieval and processing through to user authentication and authorization.

Backend developers are the guys in the background. They lay down frameworks and infrastructures from which a website or an app draws its strength from. It employs languages such as Python or ASP.net or PHP to produce the code that runs the website or app. They work with databases, and servers and are responsible for the operations and enclose that they are correct and run smoothly and securely. They can be seen as the handyman like plumbers and electricity contractors of a house.

What they do:

• Start with the application code.
• Control data storage (which is databases).
• Deal with user requests and user replies.
• Protect web pages against hacking and optimize their working.

Skills:

• Problem-solving and logical thinking.
• Databases and server-side languages and scripting including Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and so on.
• The knowledge and abilities concerning the data structures and the algorithms that are applied in their implementation.

Example: Whenever a purchaser buys an item from you, through the billing system, your payment is made, the account of the stock is debited, and there is an order confirmation.

How do frontend and backend technologies work together?

Both frontend and backend are important tools that are used actively in software development, and one should know how these two interfaces are related. Let’s also find out their work process and try to identify it with the help of a simple and, if possible, preferred example.

Imagine ordering food online.

• Frontend: You locate the menu, capture the order, and cash for the food. This is the frontend.
• Backend: This is an activity that encompasses the moment when the waiter or the other personnel of the restaurant listens and records your order, the preparation of your order, that is, the cooking of your ordered meal, and delivery of the order to your table. This is the backend.

Both parts are important. While the frontend technologies entertain you by making you have a good feeling about the car, the backend technologies make sure that when you place an order, it is a well-processed and delivered one.

Conclusion

Frontend and backend are two extremes of the same theoretical model. Both of them together, create fantastic websites and applications. While reading this blog, you get the difference between the two. Therefore, the next time you visit a website or a mobile application stop and think how the frontend and the backend have made it all possible.

This is wrapped from our side for frontend and backend development. But if you are looking for Website Development Services and Mobile Development Services, we, TIS Digitech, are here to make your website stand out. Call us or drop your enquiry here!

FAQs:

How do frontend and backend developers collaborate on a project?

The frontend and backend developers have to work closely using detailed specifications of the API and data. The frontend developers deal with the UI/UX features while the backend developers deal with the back end and database. Often, meetings and common tools help to integrate smoothly, so the two teams can always discuss the requirements and resolve possible problems.

How do you handle database management?

Databases can be described as the systematic arrangement and organization of data with a view to storage and retrieval while preserving security. Some of the databases: If you require structured data, then we use MySQL or PostgreSQL databases; we use MongoDB, if your application requires unstructured data.

How to ensure the security of the backend?

Security is the top priority. One can confidently state that we embody such measures as data encryption, the use of secure authentication, regular security audits, and strict adherence to the best practices conventional to the sphere for the protection of your application from possible vulnerabilities and threats.

How long does it take to develop a frontend? 

As for the time structures in relation to the Open Library, design, the present project, and featured elements compose the complexity. If the product being created is a Web site, it may take a few weeks to develop if it is simple but if creating a Web application with some optional features, it may take a few months.

How to connect with Tis Digitech for web development?

To connect with Tis Digitech for web development, you may visit the website and fill out the contact form or contact us through email at info@tisindia.com. You can also call us directly to set up an appointment or to just talk with us.