Front And Back Ends
Front end and back end, in addition to their obvious use in everyday English, are generalised terms that refer to the initial and the final stages of a process. The front end is responsible for collecting input in various forms from the user and processing it to conform to a specification the back end can use. The front end is an interface between the user and the back end.
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