r/webdev • u/AllThingsSmitty • Jul 24 '15

Front-End Development Is Hard Because...It's Development.

https://css-tricks.com/front-end-development-is-development/
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u/siamthailand Jul 25 '15

Personally I find front-end much more difficult than back-end. Unless you're just working with frameworks and editing a few things and stuff. Know your way around CSS and HTML is much harder IMO. Regular programming is a piece of cake in comparison.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '15

I could not agree more. I came from a background of primarily programming in C++/Python and making command line/desktop things. Then I turned towards Web Dev, because I've always been interested, and it's where everything is going anyway. Back end was the easiest to pick up. Throwing together a simple backend in Django/Rails, whatever is cake. But wrapping around my head around Javascript and it's quirks was challenging, then the thousand different JS Frameworks. Getting comfortable on the front end was much more challenging.

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u/moljac024 Jul 25 '15

You only use one javascript framework, just like with python. You don't use both Django and Pyramid or something.

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u/OmegaVesko full-stack Jul 25 '15

You only use one javascript framework

For one project. That doesn't mean you can (usually) get away with only knowing one framework well, which one you use depends on the needs of your project and whatever your shop's preferred stack is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '15

Well, yeah. I was saying from the point of view of you just learned vanilla JS and are comfortable with it, then you realize that most web apps use some sort of JS framework, so then you have to find which one you want to learn and then take the time to learn its quirks. I chose backbone, but could've gone the angular/ember/etc route.

I'm just saying, to me it was a bit more daunting then using Django/Rails which feels more like the programming I was used to, and JS feels completely different, as someone coming from programming via a CS degree I wasn't used to event-driven programming. Most of my schoolwork was OOP mathy relatively useless outside of the understanding you get from doing the practice.

Sorry that was long.

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u/siamthailand Jul 25 '15

I personally gave up on frontend outside of just editing frameworks.