The basics of knowing the difference

CLIENT VS. SERVER

PURPOSE:It is important to understand the roles both play in a dynamic web page. In most cases, it is considered the top two important aspects of web development.

The difference:Client-side:

The client-side of the web development mainly deals with the user interface, and this is what and how the users interacts. Especially in web development, it is the web browser. According to the coding aspect of the client-side of the development, the front end person must have knowledge of HTML or CSS coding.

This is similar to the three-tier architecture model since the 1st tier of the architecture is the presentation logic

This provides the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Allows to retrieve any input by users

CLIENT-SIDE

The difference:Server-side

Consider the server-side as the back-end of the web development process, while the client-side is the front-end (since it is the side to which users interact with) This is where information is stored and retrieved from. Most popular server-side language is PHP, but there are other like Ruby and ASP.NET.

MySQL also plays a huge role in server-side

The clients prompts the server for requested information such as documents or any type of service it provides.

Example: When logging into a website, the server-side allows for passwords to be retrieved from a designated database. This would not be seen from the client-side because of the different coding use to do so.