[arthur6667]

After working in dev, ops & devops roles for over 10 years, I just want to add this: Expertise and specialization is not a bad thing.

Sure, you can just chuck everything on a managed k8s solution, PaaS or whatever, but that does not mean you can build efficient application images; write correct and secure nginx configurations etc. Maybe you can rely on what the platform provides, but I've never seen a platform that is acctually usable in production without customization layers.

Anyway, my point is, it is ok to have specialists, like for Ops and tooling. I do not & will not expect a frontend developer to be able to write a efficient docker image or how to ensure assets are properly rolled over during deploys. It simply does not scale.

[thecleaner]

Why would a frontend developer need to build a docker image ?

[2ion]

It's "why would a frontend developer build inside a docker image". You wouldn't believe the absurd problems in npm dependency chains when you try to build natively on macos and windows and linux. Especially "native code" in npm deps is not always the best quality and tested on all platforms it is declared to support. Better to build in Linux and run in Linux all the time (via containers or VMs).