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What is the client and what is the server in web applications? The basics

What is the client and what is the server in web applications? The basics

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What is the client and what is the server in web applications? The basics

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All right, so if you're building web applications, it's imperative that you understand the difference between client and server. This is very fundamental essentials, but you would also be very surprised how even experienced developers that have worked on big projects trip up on really understanding client and server. You need to understand this in order to understand how to optimize properly to get to a senior level. Oftentimes, junior developers trip up because they don't really have these fundamental concepts defined. Let's define these properly, client and server. Here we see a server. Let's start with the client. What the heck is this client? Within the realm of web applications, when we talk about a client, What we mean is basically the web browser residing on a user's device. So you're on your computer, you're on your phone, you load up a web page, web browser that's loading up the page of the application, whether it's the home page or whatever part of the page it is, that's the…

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