What is a Joomla Component?

Joomla has both Front End & Back End components but the real question here is what is a component?

A component is an application within the Joomla framework some examples are the Joomla article system "com_content", banners, menus, polls, links and contacts.
Some components are rendered in your Front End template as content for example articles. Others are used in the backend to manage things like user accounts.

Front End view Components can be found in the root folder of default Joomla install inside Components folder.


Back End view Components can be found inside administrator folder > Components.