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

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Overall I'm going to say "no". There's no fundamental reason why the front-end should be any more complicated than the back-end. It's all a matter of tools and structuring.

A few caveats however. Modern front-end has to deal with a lot of device compatibility, which is a different requirement than most backend coding has. It requires a different kind of pipeline and a different testing strategy. If you attempt to adapt one workflow to fit both front-and-backend this aspect will become a problem.

The second caveat is perhaps workforce. Front-end has become easy enough that you have a lot of non-programmers contributing there. This is great, but it means you have a higher burden teaching and spreading proper practice on the team.