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Chris NorthwoodThe Full Stack Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4152-3_6

6. Front End

Chris Northwood1 
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Manchester, UK
 

Different teams will often have very different ideas of what part of their app is the front end. For some teams, the front end is literally just the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that makes up their app. For others, this can include the logic and server-side code that generates the HTML too, with the “back end” being simply the APIs. So, to avoid ambiguity, this chapter defines the front end as the bit of your server that generates the HTML, as well as any code that runs in the browser.

There are three key technologies to keep in mind when it comes to code that runs in the browser: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. ...

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