Wow that title is horrible, it actually makes you think the opposite of the article. I thought they were arguing for monoliths
Im profesional programming, the front end often matters more than the backend in that it is the part stakeholders see and understand. It’s not for technical reasons.
I think the reason people who feel are too good for front end work or that the UX doesnt matter is because they have a poor sense of aesthetics and business, they are ideologues who probably dress poorly. For example, the person hating on front end work in the article is a conference speaker, I haven’t met anyone with a real job in the industry who thinks JS is a toy language since the early 2010s, before SPAs were a thing, and even then it wasn’t hating on the front-end, it was hating on the quality of the JS ecosystem itself. If you really think the front-end doesnt matter then why should you care what your code looks like? Feel free to write it as messy as you want, doesn’t matter as long as it works, right? Stop refactoring, stop giving your variables meaningful names, stop using classes, and so on. These are all presentational.
By the way, I actually think that technically dividing the front-end from the backend, as in having them live in different repos and so on, is actually a best practice.
Im profesional programming, the front end often matters more than the backend in that it is the part stakeholders see and understand. It’s not for technical reasons.
I think the reason people who feel are too good for front end work or that the UX doesnt matter is because they have a poor sense of aesthetics and business, they are ideologues who probably dress poorly. For example, the person hating on front end work in the article is a conference speaker, I haven’t met anyone with a real job in the industry who thinks JS is a toy language since the early 2010s, before SPAs were a thing, and even then it wasn’t hating on the front-end, it was hating on the quality of the JS ecosystem itself. If you really think the front-end doesnt matter then why should you care what your code looks like? Feel free to write it as messy as you want, doesn’t matter as long as it works, right? Stop refactoring, stop giving your variables meaningful names, stop using classes, and so on. These are all presentational.
By the way, I actually think that technically dividing the front-end from the backend, as in having them live in different repos and so on, is actually a best practice.