Have you ever wondered what sets web development apart from traditional programming?
In this post, I will share with you my personal experience wh...
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Building a car and driving a car is also a very different task. I was always wandering, why so many webdev´s are using VScode. It is like they are trying to win a formula one race, but instead of a steering wheel they use a wrench.
What do you think should be used instead of VSCode?
What do you think the Mona Lisa would look like, if the only tool Leonardo Da Vinci had used was VSCode?
The Mona Lisa is a painting and VSCode is a text editor, what are you talking about?
Today, websites are more sophisticated graphic artworks with dynamic effects than simple text documents, so why do we use text editors to build them?
Hence the question I asked above: What do you think should be used instead of VSCode?
I disagree on websites being artworks though. They can be very pretty, and accessible, but that doesn't make all websites we build today works of art.
So backend development is programming while frontend is web development?
I think every territory has a little extra. I'd say Map/Reduce is "programming + consolidation + calculation", in the same way WebDev is "programming + layouts + user-interaction".
It's not a sub-set, it's s super-set.
That seems to be a common notion here on Dev but also on the internet in general: webdev = FE
Great article, I've also found that web development as well as mobile, and most other UI based layers of an application, have a few patterns that are not as common in other areas of an application.
It's not just the introduction of design to me, it's because there is no control on the order of events, and the need to respond to a changing interface, requires a different way of organizing the system.
Most server processes have a handle on when it starts and ends, user-interface work is far more cyclical and responsive.
Great read, thanks for writing it.
That “vs” in the title, and the thematic of the article is rubbing me off a tad for some reason 😅 without programming, you aren’t able to do web development, unless you use no-code tools, imo. It’s not like “what came first? The egg, or the chicken?” 😂 visual design skills, yeah, but it still is programming in its core foundation.
Yes and no, I think code fundamentals are at play for sure, but writing frontend code compared to backend or server side isn't nearly as structured in the implementation of those methodologies. Java is much more structured than JavaScript or Typescript, CSS has almost no recognizable fundamental structure to say C or .net other than it is using object syntax. I'd say the core foundation of code is the root language and then web development is a dialect that is derived from that root syntax.
Thanks for this article. it is like a wake-up call for me.
Web Dev is programming just like App Dev is programming.
What an experience you go ,thanks for sharing lessons learned.
Apart from Vs code, you can use Sublime Text as your text editor for web development.
Sublime