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How to simplistically explain a web app and API ?
In that context, I’d call the web app (html, js, css… the stuff that runs in the browser, Angular, React Vue compilations, whatever) the front
The back would be the API server and the database it’s calling, which the web app calls for the data it uses to populate the UI
I guess we could call the connections between browser and server kinda the line that separates front and back?
Let’s have a fresh look : could we bring in the comparison between the front office and the back office of any organisation ?
Or maybe the place where people sit and order and the kitchen in the case of a restaurant ??
Yeah totally, I dig it.
The customer (user) goes to the front desk (web app) and makes a connection with a representative (api) who goes back to the warehouse (database) to retrieve the item they requested
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
In that context, I’d call the web app (html, js, css… the stuff that runs in the browser, Angular, React Vue compilations, whatever) the front
The back would be the API server and the database it’s calling, which the web app calls for the data it uses to populate the UI
I guess we could call the connections between browser and server kinda the line that separates front and back?
MastKalandar@feddit.online 2 months ago
Let’s have a fresh look : could we bring in the comparison between the front office and the back office of any organisation ?
Or maybe the place where people sit and order and the kitchen in the case of a restaurant ??
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah totally, I dig it.
The customer (user) goes to the front desk (web app) and makes a connection with a representative (api) who goes back to the warehouse (database) to retrieve the item they requested