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L. PortellaA Friendly Guide to Software Development Friendly Guides to Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8969-3_4

4. What Happens When You Open a Website?

Leticia Portella1  
(1)
Dublin, Ireland
 

“It’s complicated.”

“Yes, until someone explains it to you.”

—Fredrik Backman

In the previous chapter, we launched our new ecommerce landing page, and now you want to show your family so they can see it. Your mom goes to a browser and types the URL you gave her: jollyfarm.co. Have you ever considered what happens when she presses enter?

We learned in Chapter 3 that when she types a URL, the browser will get the web page file and follow its instructions to render ...

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