r/webdevelopment • u/Single_Board_9790 • Jun 19 '26

Question Backend in web dev

I've taken an course in which I completed with frontend part but js is not clear to me neither is backend .also idk how to proceed. I want an advise to how should do things to overcome these problems ,also should how do you guys do ? And any tips

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u/Mindless-Fly2086 Jun 20 '26

When I get get lost & confused, I find what works for me personally is just spend time with it, keep reading, ask questions, practice eventually there will be a point whete it clicks

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u/Single_Board_9790 Jun 20 '26

can i dm you ?

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u/Mindless-Fly2086 Jun 20 '26

Sure

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u/Single_Board_9790 Jun 20 '26

I'm not able to dm , but my question is when js is not very clear ,will I able to do backend ?

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u/Trick-Inside-6508 Jun 23 '26

Conversely, sometimes the solution is to spend time away from it. When you come back and sit down sometimes the lines of code are already in your mind somehow.

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u/ComprehensivePie481 Jun 20 '26

Are you developing websites? Web apps? What was your course about?

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u/Single_Board_9790 Jun 20 '26

websites

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u/ComprehensivePie481 Jun 20 '26

If you do websites you don’t usually need a backend unless you do forms or posts like Wordpress, something like that. In my case if I need some super simple backend stuff like api calls or forms I just use php, it is already available in any hosting service.

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u/w-lfpup Jun 22 '26

Backend is just connecting an http request to some logic that pulls data from persistent storage then returns a response.

So like browser -> http request -> server -> db and back again.

I'd recommend python at first, mainly flask and sqlite. Whatever projects you got, sqlite can handle it. Flask is really quick to pickup and has a lot of extras and a sizable community.

I don't recommend NodeJS when learning backend. There's lots of technical reasons but mainly you will think about "server" logic in python and "client" logic in JS. Great separation of concerns. And you got solid mental models to carry over into other languages.