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As frontend development has gone towards the "developer fontend", meaning complex technologies that focus on complex state management tasks with complicated con
by awkward 5y ago
As frontend development has gone towards the "developer fontend", meaning complex technologies that focus on complex state management tasks with complicated configuring workflows, there has been a large number of people with layout, css and design skills that have been pushed out of implementation roles.
Many companies increasingly have workforces that split cross browser compliance and javascript implementation roles - the skill level required for frontend tools like react/redux creates a large barrier for upskilling devs.
- an1sotropy 5y agook, got it. I wonder if "skill level" is even the right word: it is a huge time sink to learn it, but afterwards are you actually more "skilled"? I've had to interact with React experts who had no idea how to generalize their understanding to other problems, or understood that React was solving problems that other (non-web) systems have been solving for decades.
- awkward 5y agoFramework devs getting sorted into "high skill" without knowing core web skills is definitely the other side of the problem. By high skill I meant more of a steep learning curve - there isn't much a developer without a significant understanding of the framework can do.
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