The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - eviltoast
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.

An interesting read. Of course just an personal opinion as the author said, but I think he is correct in lots of his points.

I noticed that I think / feel like this myself sometimes, even while I’m a frontend dev myself.

Fortunately I’m in a nice team that values my frontend skills that all the other full stack/ Backend devs are missing.

Did you notice this bias / devaluing of the frontend work yourself?

  • kassuro@feddit.deOP
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    8 months ago

    It’s definitely not all. My current team definitely has respect for all that special tooling / ux stuff I’m doing. Especially since nobody was able to do it before I was hired.

    But I also had the experience that older Backend devs don’t take it seriously. My guess would that those stoped learning about frontend tech in the late 90s and it’s a case of not knowing what you don’t know.