The front end of a website is the part that users interact with. Everything that you see when you're navigating around the internet, from fonts and colors to dropdown menus and sliders.
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HTML
CSS
JavaScript
FRONT-END
DEFINITION
So what makes the front-end of a website possible? Where is all that data stored? This is where the back end comes in. The back end of a website consists of a server, an application and a database.
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PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET
MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, SQLServer
BACK-END
DEFINITION
There's often not a black-and-white distinction between front-end and back-end development. Front-end developers often need to learn those additional back-end skills, and vice versa.
