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Front-end development’s identity crisis
Elly Loel, Web Designer / Front-end Developer (A11y & Design System Specialist)
I have a dilemma. I'm trying to find a job but the job I'm looking for no longer exists. I'm a front-end developer. Which to me means I work on the user interface of the website. But now in our industry front-end means the same thing as full-stack. Front-end developer job descriptions include many back-end duties. There are almost always even more back-end duties than there are front-end. This is because the industry has devalued front-end development. To the point where it's no longer considered complex or time-consuming enough to be a full-time job.
In this talk, we're going to go through the issues with full-stack and front-end development, and then we'll figure out what title best describes the people left behind by the new definition of front-end.
