Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers
April 2, 2024
In recent years the frontend has undergone a renaissance. Frontend developers—individuals that have traditionally focused on writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, but increasingly work on everything touching the UI, which includes APIs, build tools, interaction, GraphQL, accessibility, design, and QA—are seeing new frameworks, services, and tools revolutionize both the ways they work, and the apps they build.
Source: Frontend Developers: the Newest New Kingmakers – console.log()
One of a series of articles on the status of the front end from analyst Kate Holteroff at developer focussed analyst firm (apparently that’s a thing 😉) Red Monk looking at the state of front end from more a business/analyst perspective.
I have said it many times but the relative lack of investment and respect developers focussed on the front end simply astounds me since it is so critical for the significant majority of digital interactions with any online service or product.
Not just online–the menus you see in a MacDonald’s restaurant–web technology. The screens with which astronauts interact with SpaceX Dragon capsules–web technology.
Perhaps front end is finally starting to get the investment and respect it warrants? So argues Kate Holteroff in this piece.
