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Ask HN: What's the future of front-end development?

I'm curious to know what people think since front-end development is all over the map lately. You have CSS3 which is handling a lot of design work (gradients, embedded type, drop shadows) and now you have server sided JS frameworks that has always been the back-end, database realm. I really have no idea as a front-end developer what technologies I'll be working with or what my role will entail in even a few years, let alone 5. I'm wondering where people think we're headed.

bikamonki 13y ago
I believe Single Page Apps (SPA) built with a front-end 'modern' stack (MV* framework + DOM manipulation library + templating engine + theme) that connect to REST APIs. These APIs will be PAAS (think Firebase) and in some cases Local Storage (no back-end) wih some sort of synch. In a few cases it will make sense to program your own backend. Moreover, as browsers become more OS (say Chromebooks) on both desktop and mobile, the non-sense mobile native programming (care to maintain 4-5 code bases of the same app, anyone?) will be replaced by the one SPA that is programmed for the desktop, something that we devs will be eternally greatful for :)