[Kaotique]

In our agency a lot of our backend developers have moved their work on the business logic side of the frontend with React, managing state and routes, interacting with API's. While the traditional frontend developers work more on the visual part of the frontend with styling, JSX, images, animations.

I now call them technical frontend developers and visual frontend developers during interviews. I am not sure what terms will stick in the end.

Our senior frontenders handle both the technical and the visual part.

We have some experienced senior full-stack developers who can work on anything from hosting, server-side code, client-side business logic in React, but they usually stop there and let visual frontenders implement the design.

Observing our junior frontend developers I noticed it is very difficult to be effective in both areas. You really need years of experience before you can grasp the whole thing.

Managing state and business logic is so different from implementing a design. It requires very different skills. I can really sympathize with traditional visual frontender feeling overwhelmed with the whole javascript madness that is going on. Companies who just dumped it on them because "it's frontend", are making a huge mistake.