Building a Recipe-Sharing Application

A web application is a software program that is accessible from a web browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, through the internet and can be as simple and informative as the example in Chapter 2, where you made your CV available to end users, up to including complex business logic and critical data management capabilities.

A web application can be decomposed into two parts: the frontend and the backend. The frontend, visible to users, is commonly built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks such as React.js or Vue.js. The backend will handle business logic, authentication, data processing, and communication with external services and databases, and is normally developed using programming languages such as Python, Java, or C#. The communication between the frontend and the backend is done typically through an application programming interface (API), allowing developers to abstract the complexity and efficiently reuse functionality...