What should frontend engineers care about in this model?
Latency, caching, partial failures, API contracts, loading states, and how the UI behaves when the server is slow or unavailable.
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It is a model where the client handles user interaction and the server handles data processing, storage, and business logic.
It renders the UI, handles user input, stores local state, and sends requests to the server when it needs data or actions.
It lets frontend and backend evolve independently and makes it easier to scale each side for its own workload.
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