Basic Networking & Infastructure
Everything you need to know to understand the steps from you typing a URL in your browser to seeing a webpage.
Prerequisites
- [Basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JS][https://kieranwood.ca/basic-web-technologies]
Recommended pre-requisites
Topics covered
- Some basic terminology
- URL
- domain
- browser
- network
- Structure of a web app
- Traditional view (Backend-->middlewear--> frontend (user visible))
- A more accurate view (Backend --> Middlewear --> Infastructure --> Frontend)
- Terminology
- Browser
- Network
- Server/host vs client
- URL
- Slug
- TLD
- Protocol
- Domain
- Domain name Registrars
- HTTP
- Headers
- Requests
- Responses
- IP addresses/ports
- Nameservers
- DNS
- Records
- Common records
- Putting it all together in one example
- Extra stuff
- Subdomains
- HTTPS (SSL/TLS)
- CDN's
- Sockets
- CLI Tools