Traditionally, I defined backend as server side programming basically anything that is run on the server before it reaches the browser. Since front-end engine

Traditionally, I defined backend as server side programming basically anything that is run on the server before it reaches the browser. Since front-end engineers know JavaScript already, they can just effectively make an abstraction that spits out what they need using Node.js which is technically still in their domain. I never thought of it like that, but that totally makes sense too, wow. Nice read.