Is backend required for a website?

What goes into back end development?

The back end of a website is everything that goes on behind the scenes, from servers to databases, and much more . … It is the beating heart, or the churning engine of a website — responding to requests made by the user by sending information from the back end to the front end to be displayed.

The most obvious reason for a backend is hosting. If you build a HTML based web app, you need some way to host it, so your users can access it in the end . If you build a native app for a mobile or desktop system, you can get away without hosting.