I've been a web developer for 10 years and I'm guilty of this.
When I started working as a web developer the term "web app" didn't exist, all we had were web pages and web sites. Now some of these pages were built with a framework and would make dozens of SQL queries, pull data from a Memcache cache and call some third party APIs or internal APIs (we didn't call them "micro services" either back then)... But they were still web pages.
And I've never made the switch to call them web apps. What I personally call a "web app" is a single page application, and I use it in contrast to native apps.
So yeah... I'm sorry I think I'm devaluing our work in the eyes of non technical people :-/
Oh please don't worry, there is so much confusion about these terms in tech community themselves. I was already thinking about creating some dictionary of tech terms for people learning to code because as I'm teaching, I see that many folks struggle to power through the terminology.
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I've been a web developer for 10 years and I'm guilty of this.
When I started working as a web developer the term "web app" didn't exist, all we had were web pages and web sites. Now some of these pages were built with a framework and would make dozens of SQL queries, pull data from a Memcache cache and call some third party APIs or internal APIs (we didn't call them "micro services" either back then)... But they were still web pages.
And I've never made the switch to call them web apps. What I personally call a "web app" is a single page application, and I use it in contrast to native apps.
So yeah... I'm sorry I think I'm devaluing our work in the eyes of non technical people :-/
Oh please don't worry, there is so much confusion about these terms in tech community themselves. I was already thinking about creating some dictionary of tech terms for people learning to code because as I'm teaching, I see that many folks struggle to power through the terminology.