When applying for a job, despite having 20+ years experience people always wonder why I am focused on the frontend. Because it is a full time job!. Tagged with frontend, engineering, hiring.

Anmol Baranwal

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The post discusses the importance of frontend development, the drawbacks of building a bloated web, and the role of frontend developers in ensuring performance, accessibility, and user experience.

The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job

<p>I share some of the feelings expressed here; being frontend-focused used to carry a sort-of stigma some time ago. Nowadays, however, UIs and browser apps are becoming increasingly complex: declarative in favor of imperative, functional instead of OOP, micro-frontends, …, the list goes on. Being a frontend engineer is indeed a full-time job.</p>
