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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by seymour333 on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:22PM (#18328718)
The way this works out at the shop I'm currently at is that you get a bunch of devs who are, for lack of a better description, 3/4 stack developers (back-end, database, anything on the front-end that isn't CSS), and a few other devs who are strictly involved in the design/HTML/CSS portion of projects.

This system seems to work out pretty well on most projects. There is a significant body if knowledge required to get the styling and markup in an application built properly, with a high degree of cross-browser compatibility, and in a reasonable amount of time.

When I think of a front-end dev I tend to lean towards this definition. Which leaves me at somewhat of a loss to describe my role as a "back-end" developer, as I spend a generous portion of my time coding with Angular.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by h1d on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:27PM (#18331674)
Why would someone drop CSS as their skill when they know other frontend bits?

Designers don't need to know HTML/CSS when frontends can just build it up from images.

It's a weird place to draw a line that designers need to pass the result as HTML/CSS instead of just the image file.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by brlewis on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:32PM (#18328798)
I really like this term "3/4 stack developer". Is it used elsewhere or did you make it up?
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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by seymour333 on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:55PM (#18328990)
As far as I know I made it up. It's the term I typically use to give potential employers (and other devs) a general sense of where my competencies are.
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