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:
- 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.