Know the major differences between - Frontend Developer Vs Backend Developer

Posted by Jane Brewer on April 12th, 2021

In the website and mobile application development process, both backend and frontend play an important role. In order to launch successful robust based web applications, entities have to hire both frontend and backend end developers who are highly skilled with different tools and technologies respectively.

In the last several years there is a continuous battle going on  between backend and frontend development. For both of the development processes, programmers require different skills and technologies. To stay ahead in the market competition, it is important for the developers to have knowledge about backend and frontend application development processes.

What is a Frontend Development?

Front end refers to the interface with which users interact. It majorly includes the visibility of the solution. This part is built with the technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. As  users interact with this phase, it is also known as the client side development. 

What is Backend Development?

Backend development is not visible to the users but all functionalities visible for the users on the website are operated via backend only. It is also known as the server side development. Hence, backend is also responsible for organizing and managing the data. 

Responsibilities of Frontend Developer - 

• UI/UX

It’s frontend developer responsibility that the website UI and UX should be impressive and engaging. Hence, UI refers to the user interface and UX  refers to the user experience. UI involves icons and colours. Apart from this, UX means how users interact with the solution and it should be easy to use, developers should not have any technical complexities to use the functionalities. 

• Layout

Layout refers to the structure or architecture of the website. The layout of the website should be impressive and attractive as well as reflect the style of your brand. 

It’s all on frontend developers how they design the structure of the website and engage users with their different strategies. It is important for the designers to plan the design in such a way that it should be simple and not over stuffed that should be impressive for the users. For this users can use nude colours and avoid bright ones. Apart from this, with advanced animations and 3D high resolutions they can increase the quality of the graphics.

CSS Process 

Frontend  developers also work on CSS functionalities. They have responsibility for proper structure, organising files, and naming classes. For this developers majorly use Atomic, BEM, OOCSS, CSS-in-JS, and SMACSS.

• Icons

Icon is the modern way to communicate. With innovative icons you can represent different functionalities and its developer’s responsibility to make it impressive and communicative with proper icons. 

• Loading Speed 

Speed plays an important role to boost the performance of the websites. Many times developers used to skip this step or avoid this factor but loading speed of the website should be minimum 3 seconds. Designers should plan the layout in such a way that it should not affect the speed of the websites. 

Responsible of Backend Developer 

• Server Side Coding 

Server allows to render the page and provide input to the users as per their preference. So the responsibility of server side coding is of the backend developers. They can write code in many different languages but majorly developers use ASP.Net programming language to write secure code. 

• Database Coding 

This is the next major responsibility of the developers, after writing the code for the server side they write for the database. For databases, they write in such a way that the database can communicate with the server. 

• Security 

Security is the major concern on the online platform these days. Developers have to make sure that a website should be fully secure and integrated with advanced security techniques and latest methods. It is back end developer role to secure websites with different vulnerable attacks and from hackers to reveal data. 

• Code Optimisation 

Only creating the code is not sufficient; they should optimise it and make sure that it should run properly.

Conclusion 

The battle between the frontend and backend development has been going since long, but the fact is both are important at their own place. Both of the developers have their responsibilities to launch the secure and successful solutions. In this blog, we have mentioned all about the front end development and roles of them.