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The front-end is...

It’s been my experience that most front-end developers know the feeling of being mislabeled for their skills: “The front-end? Oh, that’s just wireframes and fonts and…” 😒 Yeeeeeah nope! The front-end is also: Design Yes, front-end developers design. Maybe not 100% of them, but c’mon, it’s an  integral  part of development. They design everything from interfaces to APIs, so let’s give these people props! Code…lots and lots of it You think that stuff in the browser runs on fairy dust? Testing We test the code, we test the UI, we test the experience. Then we refine it all and retest. Problem-solving User abandon rate high? Load times not what they should be? Need the whole thing to interact with assistive technology? Keep it coming. Hard See everything I mentioned above, then see everything that I mention below. Cutting-edge How many new web-based features were introduced last week alone? Which ones are being implemented in nightly builds? Keeping up with al