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Then you use an existing datepicker library, and customize it. Writing your own datepicker is 99% of the times a rookie mistake.

• schwartzworld 4y ago
  Would you not consider the people working on those libraries to be front-end developers?
  • selfmodruntime 4y ago
    They are developing those for their companies or in their free time. If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day. Development is full of compromises.
    • schwartzworld 4y ago
      > They are developing those for their companies And what do you think their job title and experience are? > If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day. This is the opposite of what you said above.
      • likortera 4y ago
        Yes, those are frontend developers, we all agree with that. Should every frontend developer be reinventing date pickers from scratch just to demonstrate how good they are? I don't think so. That's why I said 99%. Maybe there's an 1% or even less where it makes sense to reinvent it because you're Airbnb or Amazon or Google or you are in the date pickers business. But yes, you are still a frontend developer if you don't do your own datepicker and focus on shipping your company product. And date pickers are built by frontend developers. What's your point?