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Web Development and the FARM Stack
Websites are built using a set of technology that is often called a stack – every component of the stack is responsible for one layer of the app. Although, in theory, you could combine any type of frontend technology with any type of background technology and, thus, end up with a custom stack, some have proven their worth in terms of agility and reduced development time, and they have strong communities and companies backing them.
In this chapter, we will provide an overview of today’s web development landscape in terms of the available technologies and demands, and we make the case for the FARM stack – a combination of FastAPI for the REST API layer, React for the frontend, and MongoDB as the database.
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