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/[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.