What is the frontend?
The frontend is everything you see and interact with on a website or app: the text, buttons, pictures and layout on your screen.
In real life
In a restaurant, it's the dining room: the menu, the tables and the decor. The kitchen (the backend) stays out of sight.
Try it yourself
Switches
rosas-bakery.example
Basket (0)
Fresh bread, baked at 6am
Order by 10am, collect after lunch.
Sourdough loaf
£4.00
Cinnamon bun
£2.50
Lemon cake
£3.00
This whole page is frontend. Flip the switches one at a time to see what each building block does.
Where you will use this
- Module 3: What you don't see (backend)Coming soon
- Track 2, lesson 3: Generate your first appComing soon
Quick check: Frontend
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