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by world32 2629 days ago
> browsers + javascript + css (frontend opensource) ... to backend , many frameworks for each langauge, many languages all documented ... to persistence layer (mysql , postgres, mssql), and finally server but as OP said thats on amazon, Azure, Dreamhost ... etc

All of that requires a significant amount of engineering and coding to get working. Just using a frontend framework does not give you a working application, you still have to code that application.