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Web App

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A web app is an application that you access through your browser. Contrast it with an app on your iPhone (an iOS app), an Android app, a desktop app for your Mac, or an app running on a drone hundreds of feet in the air. Though these apps often have many of the same building blocks, they take different types of expertise and systems to build well.

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What's a web app?

How the apps you access in your browser actually work.

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