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Frontend vs Backend vs Fullstack Web Development - What should you learn?

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"these are things you'll have to know and you'll have to build.", 'start': 326.662, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 335.089, 'text': "Finally, you'll probably also have to work on advanced user experience strategies, as I call it here.", 'start': 329.745, 'duration': 5.344}, {'end': 344.275, 'text': 'Things like adding offline capabilities, in general, progressive web app features to your app, or handling live updates, working with web sockets.', 'start': 335.789, 'duration': 8.486}, {'end': 351.42, 'text': 'These are things which sometimes also touch backend topics or where you have to know to which endpoint to connect,', 'start': 344.575, 'duration': 6.845}], 'summary': 'User experience and backend communication, including advanced strategies, are crucial for app development.', 'duration': 41.456, 'max_score': 309.964, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/pkdgVYehiTE/pics/pkdgVYehiTE309964.jpg'}, {'end': 446.432, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 417.898, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 420.839, 'text': "You'll also not send any emails or things like that.", 'start': 417.898, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 425.821, 'text': 'This is always something which gets triggered on the server, which gets executed with server-side code.', 'start': 421.159, 'duration': 4.662}, {'end': 431.823, 'text': "And since I mentioned you won't work with databases, so you will not directly connect to any database.", 'start': 426.521, 'duration': 5.302}, {'end': 434.404, 'text': "Your front-end code won't connect to databases.", 'start': 432.163, 'duration': 2.241}, {'end': 437.145, 'text': "You'll reach out to back-ends, which then do the connection.", 'start': 434.584, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 438.566, 'text': "You'll not do it directly.", 'start': 437.285, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 440.546, 'text': "So that's the front-end development.", 'start': 439.146, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 446.432, 'text': "What about back-end? got the same boxes, and it's 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{'end': 565.503, 'text': 'You connect to the database.', 'start': 563.861, 'duration': 1.642}, {'end': 572.127, 'text': "And just in case you're wondering why we don't do that directly from the front end, well, technically that would be possible.", 'start': 565.803, 'duration': 6.324}], 'summary': 'Backend is responsible for securing and managing database and data storage, ensuring only checked data is stored.', 'duration': 29.364, 'max_score': 542.763, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/pkdgVYehiTE/pics/pkdgVYehiTE542763.jpg'}], 'start': 309.964, 'title': 'Front-end and back-end development', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of user experiences in front-end development, including considerations for back-end communication, single page applications, and advanced user experience strategies. it also explains the distinction between front-end and back-end developer responsibilities, highlighting the essential skills and responsibilities required for backend development.', 'chapters': [{'end': 351.42, 'start': 309.964, 'title': 'Front-end development and user experience', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of user experiences in front-end development, including considerations for back-end communication, single page applications, and advanced user experience strategies such as offline capabilities and live updates.', 'duration': 41.456, 'highlights': ["You'll have to work on advanced user experience strategies, including offline capabilities, progressive web app features, and web sockets, which are crucial for user engagement.", "You'll have to decide how to communicate with the back end, such as using post requests or ajax requests, and building single page applications with frameworks like Angular, which are essential for efficient front-end development.", 'Understanding backend communication and knowing which endpoint to connect to are critical aspects of front-end development that impact user experiences.']}, 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Full stack development has one huge advantage.', 'start': 954.545, 'duration': 3.821}, {'end': 959.926, 'text': 'You can build everything on your own.', 'start': 958.626, 'duration': 1.3}, {'end': 964.427, 'text': "You don't have any dependencies on backend experts or frontend experts.", 'start': 960.206, 'duration': 4.221}, {'end': 968.908, 'text': "You got a full understanding of the complete tech stack you're working with.", 'start': 965.527, 'duration': 3.381}, {'end': 970.928, 'text': 'The backend is no black box to you.', 'start': 969.148, 'duration': 1.78}, {'end': 972.329, 'text': "The frontend isn't either.", 'start': 971.128, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 973.729, 'text': 'That is huge.', 'start': 973.129, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 977.71, 'text': "And that, of course, means that it's perfect for small companies and freelancers.", 'start': 973.789, 'duration': 3.921}, {'end': 985.153, 'text': "I say it's rare that in super big projects in bigger companies, you work as a full 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JavaScript knowledge and understanding of the ecosystem are essential.', 'Full stack developers need to know the basics of server-side and front-end technologies, interaction with databases, and client-side and server-side validation, but rarely have expert knowledge in all these fields, as it is a complex and varied role.']}, {'end': 1056.925, 'start': 825.136, 'title': 'Frontend vs backend vs full stack development', 'summary': 'Discusses the advantages and challenges of frontend, backend, and full stack development, highlighting the rapid evolution and high demand in frontend development, the importance of security and increasing challenges in backend development, and the flexibility and independence of full stack development, particularly suitable for small companies and freelancers.', 'duration': 231.789, 'highlights': ['Frontend development offers great opportunities with rapid evolution and high demand, particularly in JavaScript, and the increasing capabilities of the browser, leading to high demand in developers and growing opportunities (e.g., new JavaScript frameworks every day, new browser APIs, exploding popularity of JavaScript).', 'Backend development involves important security considerations, increasing challenges with more data and touch points, and the need for better algorithms and processes to handle incoming data, leading to growing opportunities and demand (e.g., increasing data and touch points, growing challenges, opportunities, and demand).', 'Full stack development provides the advantage of independence and understanding of the complete tech stack, suitable for small companies and freelancers, but also requires the ability to handle various tasks and lack of expertise in specialized areas, offering the flexibility to specialize in one area thereafter (e.g., independence from backend and frontend experts, suitability for small companies and freelancers, the downside of being a jack of all trades).']}], 'duration': 471.342, 'thumbnail': 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lack of expertise in specialized areas, offering the flexibility to specialize in one area thereafter.', 'Backend development involves server-side tasks, such as setting up scheduled processes and server-side validation, without the need for advanced JavaScript or CSS knowledge.']}], 'highlights': ['Full-stack development encompasses both backend and frontend responsibilities, allowing developers to work on server-side code, logic, database access, and user interface rendering.', 'Frontend is the part of the web that users interact with directly, while backend performs tasks behind the scenes.', 'Front-end developers need advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build user interfaces and JavaScript-driven user interfaces.', 'Understanding backend communication and knowing which endpoint to connect to are critical aspects of front-end development that impact user experiences.', "You'll have to work on advanced user experience strategies, including offline capabilities, progressive web app features, and web sockets, which are crucial for user engagement.", 'Full stack development requires a comprehensive skill set, including knowledge of server-side and front-end technologies, interaction with databases, and client-side and server-side validation.', 'Frontend development offers great opportunities with rapid evolution and high demand, particularly in JavaScript, and the increasing capabilities of the browser, leading to high demand in developers and growing opportunities.']}