> At the end of the day, web backends are just a lot more varied and complex than web frontends.
> No, they aren't. On the technical side, a web frontend is always just bundles of JS, HTML, CSS, that have to be transmitted to the client.
First, that's factually untrue; web front-ends can contain a wide array of things beyond those three (WASM, content in formats other than HTML that is read and used by the JS/WASM, etc.)
Second, on a similar level of reductionism, web backends are just bundles of bytes that need to be deployed on servers.
> No, they aren't. On the technical side, a web frontend is always just bundles of JS, HTML, CSS, that have to be transmitted to the client.
First, that's factually untrue; web front-ends can contain a wide array of things beyond those three (WASM, content in formats other than HTML that is read and used by the JS/WASM, etc.)
Second, on a similar level of reductionism, web backends are just bundles of bytes that need to be deployed on servers.