In many cases a front end is just a view of some API call which can be much more than a db query. Some times it is the other way around where the the front end

In many cases a front end is just a view of some API call which can be much more than a db query. Some times it is the other way around where the the front end is just pulling data and all the business logic is done in the browser. So I guess it depends on your needs.