Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
March 25, 2022 01:04 am GMT

Web Development Fundamentals - Clients & Servers

Client

A client is a process that basically requests data from a server. As we're talking about the web, the browsers are clients requesting HTML pages from servers.

Server

Process providing service/data for a client

Client/Server Model

Clients requesting data from servers

Note: A piece of code/machine/software can be both server and client at the same time because it could act as a client requesting data from a database and serving a service as a server.

We've been used to associate Clients to Frontend and Servers to Backend

About the codebase executing on the client and the server:

Client

  • End-users can see all of the code (Browsers)
  • Need to be fast
  • Low computing power (depends on the end-user)
  • Cannot access Database directly (you can store information in the Browser, but in this case, we need information/data shared across users)

Server

  • Hidden code and implementation details
  • Slow (compared to clients because we need to wait on the network)
  • Scalable computing power ()
  • Can access Database easily and share information across users

Original Link: https://dev.to/mauriciord/web-development-fundamentals-clients-servers-4mdh

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Dev To

An online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends

More About this Source Visit Dev To