Website Tech Stack Basics: Frontend, Backend, Database, Server, and Domain
What technologies do you actually need to build a website? This guide explains the five layers — frontend, backend, database, server, and domain — using a restaurant-team analogy, compares four common stacks (LAMP, LNMP, MEAN, and serverless), and gives a method for choosing a stack by project type, with a comparison table, answering "what stack do I need and how do I choose."