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by al_borland 865 days ago
Its death can be from sites deciding it’s no longer worth supporting, when they do a redesign. I can see this happening if a bunch of young front end devs are put in change of the full redesign.

I’m currently on a project where the front end has all the control and none of them seem to know anything about computers or tech in general. It seems like they all went to an 8 week boot camp and got a job. It has been very frustrating.
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rpmisms 865 days ago
On behalf of front-end devs, I'm sorry. I'm not an amazing FE dev, cut my teeth on Rails projects and weird PHP, but the lack of simple thinking in the frontend world hurts my soul. I need to switch...
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al_borland 865 days ago
I’m sure there are FE devs who aren’t like this, it’s just been my experience over the last 3 years. I don’t mean to be disparaging, I’m just frustrated.

To add to the issues, the FE team has a dedicated QA team, we don’t have any QA for the backend, we just need to do it ourselves. But the QA team doesn’t know what they are even looking at (they’ve never spoken to us). They make sure the UI does UI things, but don’t understand the goal of what it should accomplish, so we (the backend devs) end up needing to do a significant amount of the FE QA, as what they are looking to release is just bad.

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rpmisms 865 days ago
No, don't apologize, you're right. Frontend should be a junior's intro to backend, and I will advocate for this forever. Senior FE devs should be the competent ones who really like FE.

> the FE team has a dedicated QA team

What a headache. Should be unified.

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