A blog explaining what back-end development is in my own words.
The development of a web page, or anything else that is created from code, is split into front-end and back-end development. Front-end development is basically all the things that are visible to users, back-end development is basically everything else.
What Is Back-End Development?
Back-end development in simple terms is all the things happening in the background that you cannot visibly see. It is mainly code that has to do with functionality and code that is being used to get data from databases. If the code is not providing any kind of user interface, it is usually considered as back-end development.
What Languages Are Used For Back-End Development?
When it comes to back-end development, there are a couple of coding languages that are usually associated with it. Such coding languages are Python, Java, JS, PHP, SQL, etc… Out of all the lines of code that has been typed out in this world, the majority of it is considered as back-end development. There are so many coding languages for back-end development because that is just how important and complex it really is.
Examples Of Back-End Development:
As stated before, back-end development deals with connecting web pages to databases and receiving information from them. A recent project I’m doing in my class involves getting information from a Rick and Morty API. I have to use code to connect the webpage to the Rick and Morty database, which would be considered as back-end development.
In this project, I have to then display the data I’m getting from the Rick and Morty database. That requires some functionality, which is also considered back-end development. It required functions to filter out all the data from the database to get only the data that is wanted. That filtering of data is back-end development. The only part that is a little bit of back-end and front-end is the code used to put all the data into HTML to display it at the click of a button.
Without back-end development, this whole project would have to be done manually with HTML and CSS. It would just be some images with some information I found and typed out in HTML. It would have no functionality and would mostly just be a picture. Back-end development helps get the job done in an easier and more efficient manner.
Why Is Back-End Development Important?
As I just stated, without back-end development, web pages would be very bland, have no functionality. All the data and information someone would want to display on their web page would have to be hand typed onto HTML since they can’t really get it from a database without using back-end development.
You can have the best looking car in the entire world, but it can’t drive or even turn on, making it unable to even do what a car is made for. Front-end is nice to have, but back-end development is what is needed and truly wanted, making it extremely important.
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