Front-end is crazy, so I can sympathize with the author's desire to use it minimally. I think if this really is your perspective, and you are waiting for the f

Front-end is crazy, so I can sympathize with the author's desire to use it minimally. I think if this really is your perspective, and you are waiting for the front-end chaos to settle before investing heavily in front-end development, you should just stick to server side pages and use jQuery to sprinkle in some JS sugar. >>> Be a great front-end developer. Be boring. I think you could rephrase this to... Be a great front-end developer by being a server side developer. His arguments: Browser support - me: situational but makes very good points. Preprocessors - me: completely disagree Accessibility - me: very good points but not restricted to any one type of developer (web apps, spa, server side templates, native mobile, native desktop) UI design - me: totally agree with his point on browser sniffing, a dangerous game Third party CSS and Javascript libraries and frameworks - me: seems like he should avoid these altogether UI architecture - me: this really seems like an opinion that is easily debatable CV - me: a good voice to have on your team regardless of tech / project requirements.