About

frontend is the first type of web application that generates interactive web pages.

A frontend is also known as a Presentation-oriented application.

Page Creation / Modification Model

The page is modified:

• completely. Each request will return a complete web page.
• partially. Only certain element of a page is modified by the client (browser) via javascript. A Single Page Application is based completely on this model. The server can still be reached with the browser api javascript fetch based

Build

A frontend production application build will:

• minify and merge the HTML, CSS, JS files
• and optimise files like images.

See the node bundler page for an explanation of the build phase.

Framework

Web - Framework