Re:Ask HN: Do front-end developers fear the back-end?
by subtra3t on Monday February 19, 2024 @11:43AM
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In my opinion it is the opposite. While modern front-end may be much more complex than back-end if you take the wrong approach towards it, most beginners tend to gravitate towards front-end. This is at least in part due to the greater volume of (sometimes low-quality) courses on basic front-end, which sometimes results in beginners knowing React and JSX but not CSS or JavaScript. But I also think it is because it is much easier to get started with front-end than back-end.
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Re:Ask HN: Do front-end developers fear the back-end?
by aristofun on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:07PM
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I may be biased about beginners’ preferences.
But the complexity of UI is not a matter of opinion or approach - it is a simple fact of having a far more complex state machine in simplest desktop app than in half of hi loaded services in the world (which are stateless, i.e. not having a state at all).
Frameworks and libraries help alleviate the pain and take care of low level dirty work, but they can’t remove the fundamental source of complexity.