Even for a front-end developer, the need for a basic understanding of the relationship between the client-side and the server-side is paramount. Whether developing server-side applications oneself or in the event of a need to communicate with server-side developers in a team production environment, a front-end developer’s ability will always be hindered without this proper context. In this course, students will penetrate the server-side in more depth and better grasp its basic constructs: HTTP servers, Application servers and Databases, as well as understand how they communicate with the client. Students will be able to take their web and app development abilities to the next level through the integration of content-driven server-side application into their existing front-end skill sets. The primary server-side languages and programming environments focused on in this course will be php and node.js.