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The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

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Re: The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

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Post by sonthonax »

> Service workers, which require a completely different mode of thinking from the rest of front-end development and have more in common with web server programming than DOM manipulation.

This is spoken like a true front end developer who's never used a thread before.

Re: The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

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Post by brigadier132 »

I would absolutely hate working in an environment where I had to wait for someone to write the css for me before I could ship code I wrote.

> These are all distinct specialities and web dev teams should be composed of cross-functional specialists.

I completely disagree and also thankfully this will never happen because it's completely impractical.

Re: The deskilling of web dev is harming us all

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

I think the “full stack” trend is harmful.

Yes it sounds nice in theory but there’s so many things to learn both in front and back end parts that I’m yet to meet a true “full stack web dev” even if they all claim to be.

Yes a guy who’s done backend all his career can write some basic HTML and CSS and some JS. And some frontend guy can write a simple server side code that writes and reads from a datastore. But they’re not “full stack” in my eyes, there had to be some balance in terms of knowledge in both areas; 60-40 would be ok, but 90-10 is not.

When I joined the company I work for over a decade ago there were backend guys doing frontend; yes they delivered something but frontend quality was poor. Now it’s the opposite, frontend guys doing backend (and of course they don’t want to deal with SQL so NOSQL it is); same thing.

Nothing beats a frontend and a backend dev (or multiple) working in tandem, IMO.

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