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by 7sidedmarble 1554 days ago
I've also lost count of the number of systems/backend guys on this website who hate the frontend world even though they've... Never really done it professionally.

I think because frontend has a reputation for being easier, there's this assumption that if you can do the 'harder' thing, you should be able to pick up JS and CSS pretty easily.

But the truth is, what separates a great frontend engineer from an ok one is mostly knowledge of the history and the ecosystem. The web is a big stack of compromises. Knowing why things are the way they are is one of the only ways to make sense of the frontend. That and just actually doing it.

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> what separates a great frontend engineer from an ok one is mostly knowledge of the history and the ecosystem

And here I thought it was related to getting the best result (most value for the user/customer) in a set of constraints such as requirements, team and time...

Clearly I'm talking about what helps you get the best result.