What is a front-end developer?

Re:What is a front-end developer? by peterchon on Friday August 17, 2012 @01:35PM (#4397615)

Because we can't all be an architect AND a forman/plumber/electrician/roofer. How can you be really good at something if you don't practice and learn it constantly? I'm guessing you've mastered or actively learning HTML/CSS/JS/PERL/PHP/Python/RUBY/Rails/.NET/JAVA/C/C++/MySQL/Casandra/Go/ActionScript/etc? I mean, where do you stop?

Heck, even CSS has SASS/LESS/bootstrap/CSS3/browser-specific declaration and don't even get me started on JS libraries.

And I don't understand your condescending tone of what a "web designer" does. What makes that job any less important than a programmer?

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Re:What is a front-end developer? by codeonfire on Saturday August 18, 2012 @04:38AM (#4400612)

Because web design is quite easy when put next to other jobs such as programming.

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Re:What is a front-end developer? by hazz on Saturday August 18, 2012 @07:03AM (#4400812)

I believe a cursory look at the majority of websites on the internet would provide ample evidence to the contrary.

I certainly find web design very difficult, whilst programming is something I am comfortable with. This may be more down to experience than anything else though.

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