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by fsociety 1266 days ago
> Unlike backend engineering …

Ha you could not be more wrong. Front end is all about velocity and trying to not end up with a ball of mud at the end of the year. State management is where a lot of the complexity and logic exist.

Whereas within backend, our current state of affairs is “oh, need some new functionality? Let us spin up microservice #214 for that one thing”.

This is changing, and across all area’s experienced engineers can avoid these problems, but the thought of front end developers coding with their hearts instead of their minds is a funny one.