My girlfriend kept teasing me about how I'm doing the easier part of programming (frontend).

@AlexDeLarge and you haven't even gotten anywhere close to the actual coding.

@AlexDeLarge that's my main mission now.

For most part it's easier but can be very difficult sometimes however i find backend to be easier than frontend

@Alice Waaaaay easier than backend/algorithmic part :)

@nrlhq i also find backend easier, having full control of the target platform makes all development easier, for many jobs however the problems you get to solve on the backend are harder. (Business frontends are f-ing dull)

@ItsNotMyFault I also find backend easier - our frontend dev has to deal with marketing and sales people's "visions" - aka "I seen it in a movie and it looked cool" or "I did a blotter yesterday and a pink elephant drew it using a unicorn turd as a pencil".

I can do whatever I want as long as it works, the non-tech people just don't give a hoot about it and the aren't trying to tell me how to do my job.

@Alice Just saying, I think that with backend you have to deal with space/time complexity, re-entrancy, thread safety and so on! Maybe you get these also for frontend, but.. Cmon xD

I'm still a student in software developement and about 3 months ago I didn't know anything about frontend nor backend developement. I can say that from my experience the logic for backend developement is much easier to understand and work out. However frontend feels much more rewarding for successfully completing something. As I said, still inexperienced but this is what I have noticed so far :D

@Alice I sure sound like the stereotypical one xD but I understand that the deadlines do not magically shrink when dealing with front end stuff :) I said that to me it looks less mentally challenging/appealing

I used to think so too. But trust me, I am a backend developer, front end is in no way an easy task!

How I used to beat myself up so much on how I don't know shit. 😭

@AlexDeLarge "designer's wet dreams" XD
Btw, I completely agree with you. Frontend tools and tech stack seems to be endless and ever expanding. There is always something new coming up.

@polymorphicbs also, how you mentioned designers and added XD 👌😂
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@willard Shit. That was unintentional 🤣

Front end is way more difficult. Since you have to deal with a client :P

@busybeemel hahaha this!!! ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

I think this still stems from the time where we just wrote static websites. Where backend was most of the work. Nowadays, when there are even offline-capable web apps, which can include a hella amount of logic too, it is different.
Just finished such an app, where the backend just stores the documents created in the frontend, and authenticates the user. Backend was done in less than a week. Frontend took 3 months.

It depends what ur application does and .
No room for arguments.

Anyone who says front-end is easy hasn't tried it or is a pro. I'll take back end any day, I have yet to make a decent looking UI or anything of the sort...

@Alice Personally I like frontend because I get to work on the UI, because I like design too.

holy fuck, I used to think frontend was the easiest part. I couldn't be more wrong.

@AlexDeLarge thanks. I moved to front end with back end knowledge and Really regretted it the first few weeks.

I really wish there was some sort of spec model to control the js ecosystem. Also, some of these big companies want to be the big bosses of the technology. Look at yarn. I like it and understand the need for it but FB could’ve worked with npm to fix what was broken instead of trying to takeover their market share.

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Frontend becomes very challenging when you have to build in tons of hacks, just because backend people think frontend is easy peasy and don't bother writing proper code, cuz it ain't being shown to the user anyways :/ Working on both sides, I can say that a lot of devs I've met think this way and that frontend devs usually have to deal with shit from the user or client afterwards.