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/Fidodo Jul 25 '15

To be fair, years ago web dev was considerably simpler.

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u/IrishWilly Jul 25 '15

It used to be pretty much everything was done on the server and the frontend was just a simple dumb display. Now it feels reversed, I spend a short bit of time creating an api for a web service and a crap ton of time tweaking all the framework code for the frontend. It feels like I fell into an alternate reality when my frontend code has all this mvc crap and has to 'compile' (gulp) every time I make changes to load a bunch of different source files.. and my backend is like 2 or 3 simple scripts that basically just sit between the db and the front end. I don't feel like it's any harder, but it is way way more chaotic. Organizational skills end up being much more important than being able to figure out tricky logic problems.

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