Front-End vs. Back-End: What’s the Difference?
Front-End Development
Front-end development focuses on the user-facing side of a website. Front-end developers ensure that visitors can easily interact with and navigate sites by using programming languages, design skills, and other tools. They produce the drop-down menus, layouts, and designs for websites.
Front-end devs use?computer programming languages ?like JavaScript, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to design websites. Each language serves a unique purpose. HTML lays out the site's content and structure, CSS adds design features, and JavaScript creates advanced interactive features. Less commonly, front-end devs know other programming languages like Python, PHP, or Ruby.
Front-End Developer Skills
HTML
HTML is the standard programming language for implementing a webpage's general content and structure.
CSS
Front-end developers use CSS to create a webpage's colors, style, layout, and fonts. These devs may use CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS to speed up the development process.
JavaScript
Front-end developers use JavaScript for sites that use interactive features like videos, audio, animations, and games. JavaScript includes libraries with extensions and plugins to run faster on websites.
Communication Skills
Effective communication skills help front-end developers work effectively with clients and back-end developers on web projects. Developers may need to explain design issues to clients who may not have technical backgrounds.