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What is the difference between front end development and back end development?

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Question added by Yasmeen Husam , Web Developer , Al Fahid Systems
Date Posted: 2018/12/11
Mohan Krishna Reddy Velegacherla
by Mohan Krishna Reddy Velegacherla , Associate Developer , Infanion Software Solutions India Pvt.Ltd

In an MVC application the front end development means designing the user interface with Model. In front end development we use technologies like AngularJS, HTML even JAVA.

In backed development we maily focused on manipulating  the data with Controllers using server side programming languages like PHP, JAVA, .NET with data storing engines like SQL, MySQL.

Thamood Binmahfooz
by Thamood Binmahfooz , Application Manager , Elaf Group

To make things really simple, just imagine a car. Front-end is the exterior of the car and how it's looks / feels and handles, backend is the engine, wiring, intrenal that helps the car function.

the two are intertwind but also may require diffent people to work with and fix, altough you can find people who do both.

Youssef Izikitne
by Youssef Izikitne , R&D Engineer , Digimind

Front-end is the client side of the application; it's what the user sees and interacts with. The front-end code is run on the browser (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)Back-end is the server side; it's run on the server and performs actions and treatments that can't be run on the browser: like retrieving data from a database.

Selvaraj K
by Selvaraj K , Senior Software Engineer , ShopX (10i Ecommerce)

Front end refers to View layer means displaying content in the browser, need to know HTML, CSS, Javascript for the frontend development.

Backend is the dealing database means read, write and update the user data in the database, communicate with frontend via API's through JSON format, langauge used like Ruby, PHP, GO, Python, NodeJS, Java etc.,

Mahejabeen Kalburgi
by Mahejabeen Kalburgi , Java Developer , Maxgen Technologies PVT LTD

The backend developer deals with the clientside and essentials technologies are: HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Angula 4 etc. And Frontend developer deals with the serverside and essential technologies are: Java, Python etc.

front end means design the external view and back end means design the conceptual view

arunmohanraj arun
by arunmohanraj arun , Network Engineer , Tablelabs OPC Pvt Ltd

It can be a little frustrating since the difference between the front-end and back-end isn't always perfectly clear. The front-end is also referred to as the client-side and is sometimes considered "web design". The back-end of the web industry is often called the server-side

Hasna Abu Khalid
by Hasna Abu Khalid , Leadership Assistant , The Giant for Consulting & Training - Saudi Arabia

front end development  is referred to client-side as opposed to the back end which is basically the server-side of the application. The essentials of backend webdevelopment include languages

Imran Afzal
by Imran Afzal , Software Engineer , Nextbridge

Front end development purely is a client end development but backend development refers to as development on server end where you can manage your data and integrate your frontend with the database.

Sajid Mehmood
by Sajid Mehmood , Full Stack Developer , ePatronus IT Solutions

Front end means the user interface and backend means the actual server side working. In MVC framworks the views perform the frontend and models and controlers acts as backend.

Feysal Mama
by Feysal Mama , Software Developer , Minister of science and higher Education - Ethiopia

front end means the things that are seen to the user which is specifically user interface, back-end development is the technology that controlling the server side. manipulating the data coming from front-end and then show data as needed on the front-end 

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