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There's engineering challenges in frontend but they only apply to Facebook-tier scale. There's also cooler stuff like data visualization, advanced animations/de
by sotojuan 10y ago
There's engineering challenges in frontend but they only apply to Facebook-tier scale. There's also cooler stuff like data visualization, advanced animations/design and WebGL but those seem to be done by designers. For most of us, it truly is gluing X framework to Y backend over and over again.
- EpicEng 10y agoSure, but even then I wonder how much of that complexity (the scaling bit) is actually implemented by the front end devs. I would assume that it's handled on the back end, but of course a UI like FB, used by 1.7 billion people, can't be an easy thing to design.
- nostrademons 10y agoAt least at Google, "front end dev" extended down to the webserver tier, written in C++/Java. You were expected to make any changes necessary inside the webserver to complete your feature. That's part of what made hiring so hard: the number of devs who know Javascript and C++ and have their algorithms down cold is relatively low. I imagine it's fairly similar at Facebook.
- EpicEng 10y agoOf course, that's not the definition most 'front end devs' fall under.