Backend Terms

An identity platform that provides authentication and authorization services with social login, MFA, and SSO support.

An all-in-one JavaScript runtime and toolkit featuring a bundler, test runner, and Node.js-compatible package manager.

A technique for storing frequently accessed data in a fast-access storage layer to reduce latency and database load.

A complete user management platform providing authentication UI components, user profiles, and multi-tenant support.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - a mechanism that allows web pages to make requests to a different domain than the one serving the page.

A secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with built-in tooling, web-standard APIs, and first-class TypeScript support.

A lightweight TypeScript ORM with SQL-like syntax, zero dependencies, and serverless-ready design.

Serverless functions that run at the network edge close to users, providing ultra-low latency for dynamic content.

A minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework providing robust features for building web and API applications.

A web framework for Node.js focused on performance, providing schema-based validation and a powerful plugin architecture.

A query language for APIs that allows clients to request exactly the data they need, reducing over-fetching and under-fetching.

A high-performance RPC framework by Google using Protocol Buffers for efficient binary serialization and HTTP/2 transport.

An ultrafast web framework for the edge, supporting Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun, and Node.js with zero dependencies.

A compact, URL-safe token format for securely transmitting claims between parties as a JSON object with digital signatures.

An architectural approach where an application is built as a collection of small, independently deployable services.

Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, processing requests in a pipeline.

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable server-side applications using TypeScript with decorators.

An authentication library for Next.js that supports OAuth providers, credentials, and database sessions out of the box.

A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that enables server-side JavaScript execution with event-driven, non-blocking I/O.

An authorization framework that enables third-party applications to obtain limited access to user accounts on HTTP services.

A specification for describing RESTful APIs in a machine-readable format, enabling auto-generated docs and client SDKs.

A next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript with auto-generated queries, migrations, and a visual database browser.

A technique to control the number of requests a client can make to an API within a given time period, preventing abuse.

An in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine with sub-millisecond latency.

An architectural style for building web services using HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) with stateless communication.

A cloud computing model where the provider manages server infrastructure, and code runs in stateless, event-triggered functions.

A framework for building end-to-end typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation, using TypeScript inference.

An HTTP callback mechanism that sends real-time data to other applications when specific events occur in a system.

A protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection for real-time bidirectional data transfer.