Why Frontend development Is More Important Than Backend?

#coding #softwareengineering

[InfinityN]

A backend developer doing frontend will give you a functional but not so pretty product, a frontend developer doing backend will give you Internal Server Error.

[qrzctgn]

I have been developing front end for 1 year, 8 months of which I developed at my workplace. However, what front enders miss is not caring about backend logic at all.

[opposite]

But you could fake frontend reactivity with backend rendering techniques. e.g using things like htmx. All you need is a nice css and you're done (I would argue that although css is frontend, this techstack is more backend-heavy. Just like you compared having nice frontend and an excel backend).

Edited: Bad UI falls into UI/UX design. I would say you can have a dedicated web designer for that - in which frontend dev would just be handling code (meaning that it would still be backend heavy).

[RishiMishra-toby]

Hey Anthony, I had a small question. What would say about learning Swift, using go and swift for fullstack ios macos apps? Is this a good path or should I stick with flutter and go?

[danieldev]

Smoke and mirrors baby, if it looks good you will get people interested, if people are interested then you get more time and budget

[continuouslearner]

Sorry what do you mean by “behind the scenes it was a fugazi” … please explain with clear examples of what this means, rather than generic english words. Are you saying that the frontend (written in next.js) was making calls to backend owned by some 3rd parties and not your company?

[ryanvelbon]

And fullstack ain't hard these days with stacks like VILT and TALL (for Laravel devs)

[mgd]

Frontend doesn’t matter for devops. Devops users are power users and they’ll be on the terminal as much as possible. Outside of monitoring dashboards etc.

[asdfbeau]

90% of what makes your life run is old, reliable, back-ends.

I don't know why everyone thinks they're going to work for the next big start-up, or create something brand new. Most of us will work for established companies that are using frameworks, back-ends- and infrastructure that you'd consider outdated.

[Rideryo]

Without a frontend, there is no backend?? That's a crazy take to say