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Discussion on: Frontend development becomes more difficult than backend development?

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Edgar Quintero

I think the main issue is that Frontend is much more time consuming than backend.

By contrast, backend can seem much more organized and structured. Features, as well as bugs, can be resolved much quicker due to a proven system that's been around for a while.

Meanwhile the Frontend has to constantly keep up with changes and iterations on the UI and UX, worry about structure and styling, logic that ensure a smooth user experience but can give way to buggy scenarios in different browsers and devices.

In the end it's not a matter of which is easier or harder. To me Frontend seems easy compared to Backend, but to a veteran Backend developer the Frontend can be very difficult because they lack an attention to detail, an appreciation for asthetics, or the patience to obsess over every single pixel on screen.