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The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, d
by seymour333 8y ago
The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, database, anything on the front-end that isn't CSS), and a few other devs who are strictly involved in the design/HTML/CSS portion of projects.
This system seems to work out pretty well on most projects. There is a significant body if knowledge required to get the styling and markup in an application built properly, with a high degree of cross-browser compatibility, and in a reasonable amount of time.
When I think of a front-end dev I tend to lean towards this definition. Which leaves me at somewhat of a loss to describe my role as a "back-end" developer, as I spend a generous portion of my time coding with Angular.
- brlewis 8y agoI really like this term "3/4 stack developer". Is it used elsewhere or did you make it up?
- seymour333 8y agoAs far as I know I made it up. It's the term I typically use to give potential employers (and other devs) a general sense of where my competencies are.
- h1d 8y agoWhy would someone drop CSS as their skill when they know other frontend bits? Designers don't need to know HTML/CSS when frontends can just build it up from images. It's a weird place to draw a line that designers need to pass the result as HTML/CSS instead of just the image file.