What are Full-Stack Applications?

Full stack applications are the software that includes both the front-end (client side) and back-end (server side) components along with database service management. So, in other words, the Front-End developer can be defined as one who has skills and knowledge of Client-side (Front-end) and server-side (Back-end) technologies and handling database operations.

We can break the key components of Full-Stack applications into

• Front-End: This includes the UI/UX development where users can interact with the application. The most common technologies used for Front-End development are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or other libraries and frameworks like React or Angular, these frameworks help to make quick designs with less effort.
• Back-End: Back-End is responsible for managing server-side business logic along with database operations. Back-end development uses languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP, or there are frameworks like Express (for Node.js), and Django(for Python) available in the market to make development fast and easy.
• Database: Full-stack developers should have knowledge of databases as well to store and fetch data from databases efficiently. Popular relational databases used by developers are MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite and popular NoSQL databases are MongoDB, and OrientDB.
• Communication between Front-end and Back-end: Servers are responsible for processing requests from the Front-end side, executing required logic, interacting with the Database, and responding back to the Front-end. This entire communication is done using API(Application Program Interface) which is included in server-side development.
• Deployment-Hosting: Once we are all done with Front-end and back-end development and database integration, the final step is to make applications available to end users. There are many paid and free platforms that can be used for deploying and hosting Front-End applications.

In the world of web development, bringing full-stack applications to life is a very thrilling experience. However, once you are done with code the next critical step is to find a reliable and cost-effective hosting solution. Fortunately, in the vast field of cloud services, there are plenty of platforms offering hosting options, allowing us to deploy and showcase our application to the digital world.

Before we start talking about the Top 5 ways to Deploy Full-stack Applications for free, let’s understand what Full-Stack applications are.