I started coding web apps around 2012. Back then I didn't hear about backend/frontend and I've coded both backend and frontend JS scripts. But we did have speci

I started coding web apps around 2012. Back then I didn't hear about backend/frontend and I've coded both backend and frontend JS scripts. But we did have specialists who created the static HTML & CSS templates. We just called them the CSS guys. I guess they were the pre-cursor to the front-end engineers. Then the JS frameworks started to rise and at first we used to spend a lot of time rewriting pure HTML to React, but gradually the CSS guys started to learn React/JSX and evolved into front-end engineers.