Because that seems to be my experience.

Their attitude to Front End development tends to be that it's the "easy part" that they've already more or less mastered because "all programming is the same". They think that React can be quickly learned, and CSS is so trivial that it's offensive to them that they even have to bother with it. They believe that Front End developers aren't real programmers and experienced Front End devs are even worse because they haven't became Back end devs in all the time they've been working.

Often they're not even particularly good at back-end development either, which is not surprising since Backend development is hard and it takes an incredible amount of arrogance and ignorance to think that you wouldn't have to focus all your time and energy on it. Arrogance and ignorance are of course things that FSDs have in spades.

Unfortunately, Full Stackers are fairly unavoidable and you just have to work round their inevitable stupidity as best as you can.

Now I know the way the title is framed I'm going to get a lot of mean comments about what actual programming is but having to think my way through everything all the time is so stressful sometimes, I'm so lazy lol especially when it comes to JavaScript but debugging CSS is fun. I just try to build a lot of things then I reference them later and tweak the logic to fit. Am I a bad programmer?

I have been taking a webdev bootcamp course and I'm still working my way through html so maybe I'm jumping the gun but am I to understand that people are still coding this stuff by hand? Sure, I get that one must understand html and css and that things like Emmet take some of the pain out of it but in reality are people using some kinds of wysiwyg drop and drag editors that do 90% of the design and generate the code? I understand some of that code probably needs to be tied together by hand but developing a web site completely by hand seem unbelievably cumbersome and cost ineffective.

Can someone enlighten me? Thanks!

Edit: thanks to everyone for the variety of comments and opinions. I didn't expect this kind of response!

I just finished learning React and started building some projects. Right now, I'm using AI as a guide. Basically, I explain my project idea or a feature I want to add, and ask it how to approach it. For example, it tells me "create a state in this file to handle X," and then I write all the code myself I never copy-paste code from it.

Is this a bad way to learn?

Also, what should I focus on at this stage? How can I level up fast so I can build whatever comes to mind without relying on AI at all?

Thanks

Perhaps the title is a bit inflammatory, but god damn. I had no idea I was a mac fanboy until a mac was taken away from me.

New role is a .net API, and a windows shop.

I have (what seems to me) a super overpowered machine. Cores out the ass. 64 gigs of RAM in this thing.

The OS is a clunky piece of shit. Any tips on apps that help with workflow?

Thus far my experience has been sitting, starting services, listening to the fan on the laptop sound like a harrier taking off, and then watching the little loading spinner when doing things as trivial as opening folders in the file explorer.

I am having to restart the machine probably every other day due to some process hanging. I guess I should learn some powershell commands for process grepping/killing.

MS Teams is absolute garbage, crashes all the time.

Anything I should look out for as it pertains to Node development, specifically?

Sorry /rant

Might be missing something here, but I'm a 10+ year backend engineer who's writing a highly styled front end. I've worked on some major distributed systems that run large tech companies.

I started with MUI thinking it was the standard, which it seems to be. I spent a week fiddling with the styles and options on all those clunky abstractions, getting almost nowhere. Every time I change one style, it messes with another. Not only that, but the components themselves are largely unnecessary. They look necessary if you know nothing about front end coding, but you're actually better off with mostly html and a headless component when you really need it. (this assumes you are using react)

Out of curiosity, I tried tailwindcss with tailwindUI. I built a great looking page, that was easy to style, in a few hours.

Every UI created with material looks the same. It looks cheap, you can tell its off the shelf.

From my limited knowledge, MUI and others like it were probably innovative in 2015/2016, but by now have clearly been surpassed.

EDIT:

You guys are missing my point. You are overestimating how much the MUI components are doing behind the scenes. Some of them are doing heavy lifting, most are just passing arguments to html elements.

Literally no exp just started my character from scratch. I got past the tutorial levels and I’m on level 3 now but some glitch has taken affect and now all the monsters are at a much higher level than my character and I cannot progress through the game. I tried to restart my computer and even deleted the save file and started a new character but at the same checkpoint the same glitch keeps happening.

Should I wait for this glitch to be patched or should I play a different game and come back after it’s patched ?

Most businesses still do most "office" work on PC's with mice. Mobile-oriented UI's usually have to waste real-estate to compensate for the fatter pointer that is the finger*. The results in more screen-hopping and scrolling since less fits on a screen with this extra spacing. For seldom-used features it's not a problem, but for heavily-used screens, it's a drag on productivity. The industry got carried away with the mobile trend. (This over-extrapolation of trends happens a lot: OOP, microservices, "async", etc. Don't get me wrong, they have a right place and time, but it takes a while to find it.)

There should be "mice first" framework(s) as common as Bootstrap for office-ware. I'm looking at you, Microsoft. Microsoft could offer both.

* It's technically possible to make it adjust per client/browser settings, but not easy at all, involving either lots of trial-and-error, or a long learning curve. [Edited]

I'm the only one on my team using WebStorm. And it seems that VSCode is always preferred or the default on the front end, even though I think alternatives like WebStorm are better.

Is this just my impression or is this just the way it is? Should I just give in and use VSCode?

I've been working in frontend development for a couple of months now. I bought a Mac (M1 pro) for work, but the only issue I have is that Mac isn't great for gaming. I've been thinking about selling it to get a Windows PC so I can both game and work on my projects.

The question is: Is Mac really better than Windows for programming?

In your experience, is it mostly professional frontend developers who use UNIX-based operating systems? Or is it totally feasible to do professional frontend development on Windows nowadays?

I am genuinely curious. I cannot hire front-end devs that like to write tests. It's fairly easy to find back-end devs that are intrinsically convinced that testing is valuable. Front-enders ... what am I missing? /rant

What is expected salary of a frontend developer with 0-1 YOE and how's the salary growth with increasing experience in this market condition?

My senior dev gave me a template front end with typescript everywhere. Anytime I fix something or move on to the next part, I'm getting some random typescript bullshit and it takes me hours to figure it out. WTF is the point of this nonsense?

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been learning CSS for a while, and I’ve reached a point where I can almost clone any website using CSS. I still struggle a bit, especially with some tricky layouts and media queries, but overall I'm pretty comfortable with it—even making things responsive.

Now I'm wondering what to do next: 👉 Should I go deeper and fully master CSS (like grid tricks, animations, custom properties, etc.)? 👉 Or is it better to start learning a framework like Tailwind or Bootstrap to speed things up? 👉 Or should I switch to JavaScript first and get into logic, interactivity, and eventually JS frameworks?

I want to grow toward real-world frontend development. Any advice on what path to follow would be super helpful!

Thanks in advance 😊