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Breaking In To A Front-End Development Career
- russelluresti 14y agoStaying informed is probably the best thing you can do as a front-end developer. At the moment, things are changing pretty quickly - not only with the technology, but also with front-end techniques like OOCSS, SMACSS, and BEM. Front-end is finally trending away from something trivial to something worth investing a lot of effort into. Both CSS and JavaScript techniques are going through major architectural shifts in terms of how people think about them. Something I would add to this list is "branching out." Front-end developers are responsible for making sure the vision of the design and UX teams are faithfully implemented (if they're not wholly responsible for these things, themselves) as well as integrating with the server-side team. As such, the front-end developer needs to be able to understand the goals and objectives of these teams, which means you need to know something about what they do and how they do it. Understanding UX, design, and server-side coding practices and terminology will help you communicate better when working with these people. You'll be able to more fully understand what they're trying to achieve and the role you play in that. I'm not saying you need to know how to be a UX designer, graphic designer, or server-side developer; but you do need to know enough to communicate with these people.