[jdlshore]

Front-end code is real development. It’s the part of your system that users interact with, and the part that has the most influence on people’s perceptions of your work. It’s also very fiddly and full of edge cases, precisely because it interacts with human beings.

If you think of it as “not real,” of course you’ll end up with a mess. But that says as much about your choices as it does about front-end development.