Client-server architecture
To see the possibilities of IoT prototyping, it is important to understand the client-server architecture. When you visit a website in your browser, let's say, https://www.arduino.cc, your browser makes a request to the web server, which can be found via the domain, arduino.cc. The server will then send an HTML file back to the browser. Once the HTML file reaches your browser, it will start interpreting the file and look for other files that are needed to display the page properly. This might be images, videos, style sheets, web fonts, or additional scripts. Your browser will then display the website. This is called the frontend. The frontend is the part of a website that runs in your browser, after the files have ...
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