Funny, most people I’ve talked to said that the backend code usually is better structured and written, while the frontend (web and games) was a hot mess
Depends who’s coding what. Since fullstack, ick, is the norm, backend coders forced to do frontend is the case that you’ve described. Frontend coders forced to do backend is the case in the comic.
Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.
Funny, most people I’ve talked to said that the backend code usually is better structured and written, while the frontend (web and games) was a hot mess
Depends who’s coding what. Since fullstack, ick, is the norm, backend coders forced to do frontend is the case that you’ve described. Frontend coders forced to do backend is the case in the comic.
Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.
In particular, frontend has to interact with humans, which is one hell of a messy API.
Can confirm. I’m a full time frontend developer and humans don’t have very well defined APIs