Introduction to the Back End | The Odin Project
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Introduction The “front end” denotes the interface that a web user interacts with - what they see (and hear) when using the web. The three languages of the front end are fairly standardized: HTML for markup, CSS for presentation, and JavaScript for scripting. The “back end”, meanwhile, denotes all that goes on “behind the scenes” on web servers to make the user experience possible. In contrast to front-end development, you can run pretty much any language you want to on your server since it doesn’t rely on your user’s browser understanding what’s going on. All the browser cares about is…
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