Frontend, Backend, and the Blurring Line In-Between

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Next.js

Take Next.js, one of the most popular front-end frameworks, as an example: Next.js allows you to create API endpoints for executing code on the server-side. This makes it possible to do backend-ish things — like querying a database or validating users — right within the front-end framework. In some cases, you can now implement a full-fledged application entirely with one framework and one language (if we could HTML/CSS/Javascript as one).

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Auth0

Server-side programming has its own nasty intricacies. Fortunately, new generation startups are building solutions to ease the pain. For instance, user authentication and authorization are notoriously hard to implement correctly, and Auth0 is dedicated to hiding the complexity by offering a set of plug-and-play APIs. So instead of thinking of technical details, you can now focus on high-level workflows. There’re more examples of such trends in other domains, like payment systems, CMS, e-commerce, etc.

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