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[–] [email protected] 97 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Front end is hard. Slapping together some form elements, xhr requests, and DOM updates is easy. Building a usable, consistent UI, that makes proper user of the backend isn't. On top of that, every jackass thinks they get it because they're a user, so you get unsolicited suggestions from everywhere.

Source: front end devs sobbing in the cubicle next to me.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Here, I'm going to scare all the front end devs "Make it pixel-perfect to the designs"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Meh. I’d rather make pixel perfect to designs than not have designs…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ohhh, that touched a deep well of hatred. My first engineering job was full stack and we had a highly modified Bootstrap front end. I'd build the thing they wanted, and the designers would get looped in for QA and insist that various pieces had to look like their little wireframe down to the pixel. I mean look, it's easy right?

I asked why they are insisting on constantly going against the standards that had been adopted company-wide. Did it stop? Why no! Did I get a suit down with my boss? Why yes!

He is/was a cool guy and saw my perspective but also gave me precious advice on how to survive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the long nights of overtime, redesigning that one button component for the sixth time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Because some doofus upper level manager needs to make the project his own and the button doesn't "pop" enough.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Backend-engineer doing frontend: same

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

You could just call this "Programmer programming" and save some screen real estate.

Something something DRY practices

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem is you have comp sci majors who learned .Net or Java handed react, so they do their damndest to turn react into .Net or Java.

I have seen many travesties committed in react and angular from people trying to turn them into what they know instead of letting them be good at what they are.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

I have seen many travesties committed in react

That's a complete statement on its own.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Front end programmer doing full stack:

Apes together strong!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my colleagues love hearing about using Node.js for the backend...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve done it. I kinda miss Ruby actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Clearly stockholm

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

'Make it pop' - lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

"Throw a bunch of stupid animations in there so it looks like a powerpoint presentation made by a 13 year old"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Let's just create a variation of this that has the same image for everything