I dunno. I'm a FE dev and have been for 20 years. I'm finding more and more that FE jobs are webpack and dependency management jobs. Far from building bespoke user interfaces or developing new patterns. The design side of web development has grown boring thanks to bootstrap and bootstrap influenced design libraries. All the fun challenges of the early aughts are gone and all that's left is figuring out why library A doesn't work with library B. If I were just starting out, I would go to backend development. It seems more creative development is happening there than the graphical part of the web. Sadly, I'm only in it for the money these days.
Been a FE dev now for almost 12 years. I've grown so exhausted by just being a library manager it hurts. I made my intentions to my team recently that I had ever intention of moving over to the back end side.
But it's not just the library management that kills me. It's the complete lack of any form of respect I see time and again in regard to FE. BE folks say something is hard and will take time? They get all the leeway they need. FE says something is hard and will take time or just flat out want to do it right? Now you have 20 people from the marketing department crying foul and claiming the FE team is just lazy. I tell them the specs are incomplete and I get told to just deal with it and make it work. I ask for clarification of interactions and everyone expects me to tell them how the thing they designed should function for a user. I used to love FE because it was the "fireworks"... but lately it just feels like a lot of people have no respect for the craft at all.
At the end of the day I think my organization would kill to just have a FE they could manage like Wix and do away with us. So on to something new...
