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by schwartzworld 1425 days ago
> They are developing those for their companies

And what do you think their job title and experience are?

> If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.

This is the opposite of what you said above.

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Yes, those are frontend developers, we all agree with that.

Should every frontend developer be reinventing date pickers from scratch just to demonstrate how good they are? I don't think so.

That's why I said 99%. Maybe there's an 1% or even less where it makes sense to reinvent it because you're Airbnb or Amazon or Google or you are in the date pickers business.

But yes, you are still a frontend developer if you don't do your own datepicker and focus on shipping your company product. And date pickers are built by frontend developers. What's your point?