How do you tell if a website is client-side or server-side?

Press Ctrl+U and you will see the HTML document sent by the server . If it’s mostly empty, you’re dealing with CSR; if it already contains all the content, it’s SSR.

Press Ctrl+U and you will see the HTML document sent by the server . If it’s mostly empty, you’re dealing with CSR; if it already contains all the content, it’s SSR.

Server-side code can be written in any number of programming languages — examples of popular server-side web languages include PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript (NodeJS).

Server-side code can be written in any number of programming languages — examples of popular server-side web languages include PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript (NodeJS).

But, client side markup/scripting languages (HTML5, JQuery, Ajax etc) have come a long way that you could now do SOME of the tasks you’d do at server side at client side. But, with the use of some external libraries (They could be open source or commercial).

But, client side markup/scripting languages (HTML5, JQuery, Ajax etc) have come a long way that you could now do SOME of the tasks you’d do at server side at client side. But, with the use of some external libraries (They could be open source or commercial).

Server-side means that the action takes place on a web server . Client-side means that the action takes place on the user’s (the client’s) computer.