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Late 2019 Brad Frost already pondered about The Great Divide and introduced the terms “front of the frontend” and “back of the frontend”. In a new post he gives the easily-shareable overview that lists the differences between both.
A succinct way I’ve framed the split is that a front-of-the-front-end developer determines the look and feel of a button, while a back-of-the-front-end developer determines what happens when that button is clicked.
- A front-of-the-front-end developer is a web developer who specializes in writing HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code.
- A back-of-the-front-end developer is a web developer who specializes in writing JavaScript code necessary to make a web application function properly.
Imo this separation also is present in backend development, where you have the “front-of-the-backend” people and “back-of-the-backend” people. Hear me out:
- A Front-of-the-backend person writes PHP/JS/etc. scripts which perform the required actions such as inserting records into a database, sending off an e-mail, etc.
- A Back-of-the-backend person provisions and maintains the infrastructure.
You might already know these two parties as “backend devs” and “ops”, so nothing new there. Thanks to things like Docker and CI/CD the line between both has become more and more vague, with overlaps in responsibilities between both.
front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end web development →
This content originally appeared on Bram.us and was authored by Bramus!
Bramus! | Sciencx (2021-02-19T00:03:46+00:00) front-of-the-front-end / back-of-the-front-end. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/02/19/front-of-the-front-end-back-of-the-front-end/
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