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Check out HN search for "front end development" from 7 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=front%20end%20development&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateR

Check out HN search for "front end development" from 7 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=front%20end%20development&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=1107216000&dateEnd=1269820800 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=front%20end%20development&sort... Three pages of low vote threads with the occasional mention of front-end development. There wasn't much of a term of front-end development 7 years ago. It's a new thing. You had back-end devs who would do some funky front-end stuff with often atrocious UIs and a bunch of designers who would hack together some jQuery plugins badly. The highest voted story from 7 years ago is talking about converting PSD to HTML/CSS, which many of us back then would have sneered at being called development.

wheelerwj 10y ago
Yeah, I feel like the notion of a dedicated front end engineer as oppossed to an engineer working with a contract designer is relatively new. A few years ago, I was working contract at MS, and they had this concept of DevOps which seemed so weird to me. It was like a marriage between IT and engineering. Only in the last few years has DevOps come to stand on its own as a dedicated discipline. which actually gives me some perspective for the speed at which FE tools seem be iterating. I'll have to keep that in mind moving forward.