What is covered
The technical boundary between a website and a web application is defined by infrastructure, not appearance. A website serves the same HTML to every visitor. A web application manages session state, enforces role-based access control, executes business rules on each request, stores and retrieves records from databases such as PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database, or MongoDB, an open-source document-oriented NoSQL database, and exposes functionality through REST API or GraphQL endpoints. If your project involves user accounts, data entry, reporting, or system integrations, it requires web application infrastructure.


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