Do You Hyphenate Back-End?

Back-end and front-end are common technical terms nowadays. Traditionally, they are written with a hyphen "back-end".

Is backend one word or two?

Spell it as back-end when used as an adjective, as for example "The back-end technologies for this project will be Apache, MySQL and PHP."

How do you write back-end?

  1. Spell it as back end when used as a noun, as for example "I am working on the back end of a project", and.
  2. Spell it as back-end when used as an adjective, as for example "The back-end technologies for this project will be Apache, MySQL and PHP."
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