One thing to mention here, almost as an aside, is that there’s a class of web product development that’s really just traditional programming—except it happens to use a web framework. We do this because the web makes certain things easier. It’s easier to connect to a backend database, easier to build an interface, and easier to deploy when you use a web framework.
But conceptually, it’s still a traditional program. It’s a traditional application. You just happen to be using a web framework as the delivery mechanism.
In many computer science courses, when they talk about a web class or a web programming class, this is often what they mean. And that’s fine—but that’s not where we’re stopping. We’re not just talking about learning a web framework.
We’re talking about the web itself. That means servers, clients, interactions, users, data, and everything that contributes to building an actual web product.