The Future of Front-End Development: 🚀🎨 Not Just Buttons and CSS

Satish Shriwas
Nerd For Tech
Published in
4 min readSep 12, 2024

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Let’s be real: most front-end developers aren’t sitting in a fancy Silicon Valley café sipping on soy lattes. Whether you’re at Google, a government agency, or freelancing, you’ve probably heard this one before: “Why is it taking so long? It’s just a button!” 🙄

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🔧 Reality Check: The Front-End Grind

The myth persists that front-end development isn’t “real engineering.” You’ll hear it from some back-end engineer who insists they can code blindfolded on Arch Linux while debugging their over-engineered APIs designed to make a Starfield NPC seem comprehensible.

Meanwhile, we front-enders sit between three masters: product, UX, and backend. We get squeezed from all sides, catch all the blame, and barely get a sliver of credit for the work we pour in. 😅

Daily Front-End Life: Yes, we spend a ton of time on React, TypeScript, and pushing pixels. But at its core, our job is really about data-smuggling: packaging data from the backend, making it look good, and sending it back. But don’t forget the JavaScript insanity of bugs that make you question the nature of reality. 😵‍💫

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Satish Shriwas
Nerd For Tech

Hi 👋, I write about frontend technologies, sharing insights and tips to help developers build better web experiences. Topmate:https://topmate.io/satish_shriwas