> Furthermore, with traditional desktop applications you also usually have a full stack attitude, although again it isn't called "full stack" in that case. Desk

> Furthermore, with traditional desktop applications you also usually have a full stack attitude, although again it isn't called "full stack" in that case. Desktop application developers are typically expected to be able to write both UI code as well as business logic and database access code. Many GUI applications are actually based on a client-server pattern that mirrors the "front-end" v. "back-end" distinction. Often the "server" is a separate CLI app, or even a daemon/service with no interaction with the rest of the system other than via the platform IPC (COM, DBus, whatever). Consider the traditional large-scale "pattern" of desktop apps, viz. Model-View-Controller. The Model is back-end, the View-Controller pair (which is often tightly coupled anyway) is front-end.