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Discussion on: I'm a frontend developer. Or am I?

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Henry Oliveira

My position is officially "Front-End Developer". I primarily write and develop components for use in A/B testing. Primarily. I've also been developing a lot of tooling for helping make that process faster and more efficient.

Are these back-end tools? They're not running on any server, so I hesitate to call them back-end tools and myself a full-stack developer (at this job), but these tools aren't used in the front-end either.

I'm also on a very small team and have been heavily involved in trying out different tech and making overall design decisions for what we do. Does this now make me an engineer? I have no idea. Am I still a front-end developer?

The lines get more blurred and gray with each passing day.

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Lynne Finnigan

This is pretty much how I feel!

Having a bit of a frontend identity crisis 😁