Frontend
- Also known as
- front-end
- Pronounced
- FRUNT-end
Frontend is the face of a website — everything the visitor sees and interacts with directly.
It is the half of the work that makes the strongest visual impression, and the half people mean when they say a site “looks good”. The other half is the backend, the server side nobody sees.
The frontend is also where UI and UX live — User Interface and User Experience. The first is how obvious it is to work out what to click; the second is what the visitor is left feeling after they have done it.
The technologies involved are, first and foremost, JavaScript and CSS/HTML.