What Do Coders or Programmers Usually Meant By Front-End / Back-End Developer?

Question

I know I'm supposed to Google search this but I want views and ideas from programmers 'in the house'. Can you guys explain what front end/ back end things mean?

Answer 1

I'm uh, non-professional so it may not be as in-house as you want. But I'm still confident in my view.

Front-end is the interface, how it looks and how you interact with it. This can be as simple as a number showing from a calculation, to a website UI for setting up your profile, to the graphical render and controls of a big budget video game.

Back-end is how everything works behind the scenes. In front-end website you might click to buy something, but in backend its checking their bank, storing their shipping address, scheduling it, etc. Or say, calculating the game logic of a video game, looping through objects, updating their position, if someone is injured it reduces their hp variable.

That's my understanding of it. Most often it refers to front-end web page design, vs back-end server that generates pages or content. But it can apply to anything in programming.

Answer 2

I appreciate that Ahri Fox