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by gedy
947 days ago
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> I don't understand the allergy of the so called "back end" developers with JS I think what many people are complaining about is that they actually dislike UI development and all the ambiguity and complexity. "JS" just catches blame for this. Modern JS and esp. TypeScript are pretty good languages, or at least comparable. A lot of these server side UI toolkits avoid some of the complexity by supporting basic UIs and flows, e.g. List/Show/Edit (which is fine in many cases), but to do complex UIs that many modern apps need, it's a huge pain. Worse situation to dev is forcing 80% of the functionality via server side, then the last 20% you ask "front end" to wedge in with jQuery style development. |
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It's not just that UI development is more ambiguous, it is the fact that it is difficult to make text-based code fit it. This is doubly (or maybe logarithmicaly) so when responsive (same code fit different screens). HTML, XAML, HAML, etc all require a lot of code. Reusability mechanisms (like components, etc) help this but it is a world of difference from what BE devs are comfortable with.
Thought #2: I'd guess BE devs like to just code, and the FE frameworks have a reputation of getting in the way of that. This is a less certain thought, so welcome opposition, but seems at least like part of the emotional reaction a BE dev would have to FE work.