- Webpages
- So far, websites that only have a frontend are essentially webpages
- they are bits of HTML that gets requested from the browser to our server, and the server returns that html file which gets rendered
- Web applications
- user should be able to do something beyond just allowing users to view webpages
- ex. logging in
- User enters web app and logs in
- this info is passed to a server in a request
- server then is able to find the application that knows how to handle the login (ex.
login.js)
- in this file there is some logic that knows how to log a user in… we can search a db, look for a particular email and get hold of the password for that email and compare
- if the data match, we send back a response, in the form of a homepage
- if data doesnt match, we give back an error