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I've been away from front-end web development for a while now. I've been doing steadily less of it over the years, and by now it's probably been 4 years since
by sixdimensional 7y ago
I've been away from front-end web development for a while now. I've been doing steadily less of it over the years, and by now it's probably been 4 years since I've touched it at all. As memory serves, the last project was gulp, typescript, SASS, and still jQuery.
When the front-end work began to fork off into it's own real separate independent discipline, likely when we really achieved separation of the UI from the backend, things started to change and I ended up having to make a choice. With front-end build tools, CSS processing libraries, larger frameworks like React/Angular, I ended up on the back-end side of the equation - data platforms, databases, web services, application logic, integrations, infrastructure, etc.
Seeing this reminded me of how much fun front-end development was, even with having to deal with the annoying quirks of HTML, CSS, JS and all the browsers.
Did anybody else, like me, suddenly have a real hankering to sit down and break out all the new HTML/CSS/JS toys and start playing? :)
- Izkata 7y ago> Did anybody else, like me, suddenly have a real hankering to sit down and break out all the new HTML/CSS/JS toys and start playing? :) Happened to me last year, with the steadily-increasing annoyance at how complicated it's gotten at work - just to see how easy/difficult it would be to put together that blog I'd been thinking about for years, without using a single frontend framework. (That blog isn't live, it got put aside for other projects in case anyone was wondering. But yeah, particularly with grid-template-area, it's not difficult at all anymore to do whatever layout you want. Even got some limited component-y goodness with inclusion templates and direct-descendant selectors.)