Ask HN: I can't grok front end development
I've been a software engineer for over 10 years. Most of my life has been spent working on backend systems, RPC services, workflow based systems, the last 5 years have been building infrastructure for FAANG companies. I understand backend development, when I say I understand, I mean I understand the actual challenges and my brain interprets these challenges as fun. Every couple of months I have to make small changes in an already existing webapps and I'm able to copy the style of the code and I get by. Recently, I've been trying to learn more about Frontend and started exploring a React project at work. Between the framework, the state model, and how things are actually wondered, I was just bewildered. Many years ago, stuff was simple, HTML, with Javascript and CSS. You could serve JSON from the backend and your JS along with CSS could style the page, or you serve the whol
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I've been a software engineer for over 10 years. Most of my life has been spent working on backend systems, RPC services, workflow based systems, the last 5 years have been building infrastructure for FAANG companies. I understand backend development, when I say I understand
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- websap
- Ended
- 2024
- Source
- hackernews