Web Theory 2
Intro
Goals
Dive deeper into how the web works on the back end
Learn back-end web concepts
How the Web Works
The Big Question
“What happens when I visit https://google.com?”
How the Web Works
Let’s dive deeper into what happens on the back-end part of the request/response pattern.
Server receives request
Request is routed to controller
Back-end logic
Response is generated
Back End Concepts
MVC
Model View Controller
A back-end web design pattern
Model: database tables and object-oriented code to represent them
View: HTML templates or Javascript code used to generate responses in HTML
Controller: a section of the back-end code that handles certain URLs
Monolith
A monolith is a term for a traditional web application in which all logic is housed in one app
There is a single code base that holds back-end logic for the entire application
Microservices
An alternative to the monolith
Several sepearate, smaller web applications exist to handle the various requests
Helps with scalability, maintainability, and more
Complexity also increases
Other Web Frameworks
If you’re passionate to learn about back-end web development, here is a list of other popular frameworks to check out:
Python: Flask, Django
Java: Spring Boot
Javascript: Next.js, Meteor
PHP: Laravel
Ruby: Rails