What is Backend Development?

Backend Development is the behind-the-scenes engineering that powers a website — servers, databases, and application logic that a visitor never directly sees, but that everything visible depends on.

What the Backend Handles

• Storing and retrieving data from a database
• User authentication and account security
• Processing orders, payments and business logic
• Serving data to the frontend through APIs

Common Backend Technologies

PHP frameworks like Laravel, along with Node.js, Python and databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, are common choices depending on the project's scale and requirements.

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