# 5. The Frontend

You have the power of a thousand suns in your browser, needless to say, you can get burned!

It is in our best interest to understand browsers and the roles which technologies that run within them can play and should play. As those are two very different things. Users can be exposed to unpleasant security vulnerabilities if tasks that belong to the backend are thoughtlessly delegated to the frontend.

Let's get started.


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