Understanding Volto

[abdulmoizsheraz (Moiz S)]

I have studied How Plone works under the hood with Volto. I want to ask if Volto is an SSR node js server that communicates with Classic Plone backend (python ) through Rest API Now the thing I want to ask is Why Volto is referred to as a frontend?.

[mekell]

@abdulmoizsheraz

I want to ask is Why Volto is referred to as a frontend?

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@Cybrosystech: Thank you for considering my comments and suggestions. I'd like to add some comments to point 6: The words "default" and "frontend" have become kind of plastic words in the Plone community. Due to their elastic semantics both words need some explanation when used. In Plone's marketing jargon the words "default" and "frontend" are mostly used to promote Volto as the preferred "frontend" of a specific type of Plone stack. The precariety of this semantics becomes tangible when t…

[tkimnguyen]

@abdulmoizsheraz

want to ask if Volto is an SSR node js server that communicates with Classic Plone backend (python ) through Rest API

My understanding is that the node server is used to render the front page, to make the site indexable by search engines, but after that it is React in the browser that takes over.

[tiberiuichim]

@abdulmoizsheraz

Why Volto is referred to as a frontend?.

Frontend is the thing that generates what the users see. Maybe this will help: 1. Volto Client - Server duality – Effective Volto – Architecture — Plone Training 2023 documentation