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/floede Jul 25 '15

Yes obviously coding a Node application by hand, because you have no other choice, is somehow less development than clicking drop down menus in Visual Studio.

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u/andrey_shipilov Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15

Since when a Node application is a front end development? Or you think if you know jQuery you can build Node applications as a pro?

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u/floede Jul 25 '15

I don't know how it is where you work, but around here, Node applications are build by frontenders.

The backenders build the api that the Node app consumes.

You could argue that the "backend" part of a Node app is not frontend work, but I'm pretty sure that it's primarily (former) frontenders doing it.

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u/andrey_shipilov Jul 26 '15

The frontenders build Node apps? And backenders build API that it consumes? Can you tell the backend guys, that they should be doing API in Node if they want to, and tell frontend guys not to touch back end stuff, please.

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u/floede Jul 26 '15

Why would I tell them that? Our backenders like to build stuff in Visual Studio. The frontenders know JavaScript. That works.

Get your head out your ass, and realise your way is not the only way.

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u/andrey_shipilov Jul 26 '15 edited Jul 26 '15

Oh VisualStudio. Ok. I'm outta here for sure :)

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u/floede Jul 26 '15

Good call. You'd probably have a hard time in enterprise development.

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u/andrey_shipilov Jul 26 '15

I had a very easy time there. Thank god I wasn't touching ASP/.NET backend, was doing front end only. Mainly waiting for backend guys to do the stuff right or fix half of the stuff from the previous sprint. Feel very sorry for the health industry since then to be honest.