A Brief History of front-end and Back-end Development.

The term hypertext was first coined by Ted Nelson in 1969 in his research project at Brown University. Hypertext is a text that is displayed on a computer monitor and has links to other texts. By clicking on a link, the user can navigate from one text to another. Ted Nelson developed a working prototype of an application that he called Hypertext Editing System on an IBM computer. Tim Berners-Lee, an English engineer in The European Organisation of Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, had an idea of the web in 1989. The idea was to make it easier for everyone in the world to create and share hypertext documents through the internet. To implement his idea, Berners-Lee invented a collection of technologies: a web browser, a web server, a protocol for communication between the browser and the server (HTTP), a language that annotates text to render the hypertext in the browser (HTML). A unique identifier for the hypertext document (URL).

Have you ever tried building a frontend web interface using just plain HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript? Well, it’s actually not that hard these days. Provided the required features are not complex, you can finish a small project relatively easily. For medium to large projects, you’ll need at least one framework to deal with complexities introduced by user requirements. Today, a beginner developer can build more complex frontend interfaces much faster than what was possible 20 years ago. In this article, we’ll look at how modern frontend frameworks grew to provide this level of sophistication.