What is difference between frontend and backend theme

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Noob here:

After doing a lot of searching, I can’t seem to find an answer to my question. The question is related to using Lovelace dashboard.

Thanks

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The backend is the part of home assistant that does all the work, automations, scripts, scenes, etc…

The frontend is the pretty bits, Lovelace dashboards, UI editors, etc…

Themes are always applied to the frontend.

Themes can be selected by the backend (a day/night theme selection automation for example).

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There is no such thing as a backend theme.

There’s ‘backend selected’ which means that the theme you see can be changed by the backend (via automation for example).

Edit - ninja’d!

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Thanks! This helped me a lot