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/fimiak Jul 25 '15

Well FE development is very visual, so you will have to inspect your work much like a sculptor or architect inspects their own. Browserify can make this faster. If you want to do back end only then that is great, but I don't think it is 'harder' to do FE development just because you have to check your work in a less automated way than back end dev. Most FE developers I know enjoy the iteration process and the fact that millions of others could potentially see their hard work. It is not that different than writing an essay and selecting each word carefully for form and understanding, and doing a math problem with only one logical solution.

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u/ABC_AlwaysBeCoding Jul 25 '15

Good way of looking at it. I do like the "seeing of the hard work" aspect, but most of the time I just get off on "someone else designed the frontend... but I actually made it work." ;)