[johnward]

There ends up being a wide range of skills that fall into any classification and "front-end developer" is no different from what I see. For the majority of jobs, knowing html/css/js and modern js/css frameworks probably covers it. Your case sounds a little bit more specialized.

Then sometimes you see a "front-end developer" role and you find out it's actually a designer role.

I don't have a ton of actual front-end dev experience but when I get to do it in my consulting role I like it. So I'm trying to move into a role like that but the comments here make me think I don't have those skills. I don't have a strong CS background but was hoping I could still do front-end dev work. Then people are talking about algorithms and being a math minor and I'm not sure I could do that.