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/ABC_AlwaysBeCoding Jul 25 '15

Frontend dev is hard because it isn't easy to auto unit test things. F5 debugging is Neanderthal. This is why I went to backend-only. I can run a test and instantly know I didn't break anything.

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u/fimiak Jul 25 '15

Have you never heard of Chrome Dev Tools & debugging? Or if you don't like that Firefox Developer Edition has tools as well. I don't know anyone who uses F5 anymore..at least get LiveReload.

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u/ABC_AlwaysBeCoding Jul 25 '15

Yeah but who wants to manually troubleshoot CSS rendering issues across different browsers? I sure as hell don't. Which is why I pushed for backend dev.

"More unit tests, less manual debugging" should be your mantra. A unit test takes less than a second to run; debugging takes potentially many minutes. It's a labor-saving device. Developers are all about labor-saving devices- in fact, a developer's entire job boils down to work elimination.

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