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Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.
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Chris Coyier’s latest talk puts all the complexity of modern front-end development in perspective:

All the very huge responsibilities front-end developers already have:

  • Pulling of the design
  • Making the design part of a system
  • Making sure it is accessible
  • Worrying about the performance
  • Testing things across browsers
  • Testing things across devices
  • Sweating the UX

Oh hello, big pile of new responsibilities

  • Component-driven design, designing our own abstractions
  • Site-level architecture
  • Routing
  • Fetching our own data
  • Talking to APIs
  • Mutating data
  • State management

Oof.