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by jczhang 2627 days ago
In Netlify's case, does that mean there is no backend? No DB or node server?
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Well, all the front-end code is precompiled and published to CDN. So at least from that perspective, there is continuously running server. Node would compile, publish, and cease to exist. The DB would have to be hosted elsewhere and made available via an API.