Browser and Server

Aka. frontend and backend

Usually a web page is mainly considered to be just everything that gets sent to you, but it’s actually a combination of what you receive to the browser (frontend) and what the server does when you send requests to is (backend)

Browser

A browser is a computer application that runs on your computer. It is needed to navigate the web into different addresses

A browser makes requests to servers which then send the website code to the browser. The browser then reads the code and shows the actual visual website.

Server

A server is a computer that runs a specific computer program that is designed to receive requests and then to do different things based on the requests. Often these things are to send a specific website page, but they can also be used to update information on an already sent website or to save information into a store called a database

Browsers and servers are linseparable partners. Think of it like this: the browser asks the server for a book page that you want to read and the server folds it, sends it like a paper plane over the internet and then the browser unfolds it and shows it to the reader.

Lets dive deeper and look into what a website is next.