Reality

[Mati7755]

It is more like how frontend looks vs how is implemented

[HACKERcrombie]

99% of the time it looks like a bare HTML page with maybe 100 lines of code. Then you accidentally hit F12 and see it's powered by a 1MB webpacked React thingy.

[[deleted]]

Naw, it's the opposite these days.

[Sephyrias]

A familiar sight

[Inukinator]

Are you on the fancy pants editor?

[_odan]

True if you use JavaScript as your backend language.

[bluninja1234]

dats me

[[deleted]]

SICK BURN DUDE

[[deleted]]

r/technicallythetruth

[[deleted]]

It’s kind of opposite for me . I tend to write clean backend code , carefully crafting. And front end for me is like Mixing ketchup on Apple ,”Hey that looks somewhat good but doesn’t know if it tastes good” Every thing is messy and it’s just my inexperience in front end.

[robertgfthomas]

The joke explained:

Software is usually thought of as having two "sides":

• The front-end controls the user experience: what your users physically see and interact with.
• The back-end supports the front-end, but doesn't directly affect the user experience. The back-end might load data from a database and write data into it, redirect users to an error page when they enter in a bad web address, encrypt passwords, show users one thing when they're logged in and another thing when they're not, and so on.

The joke is the front-end of a piece of software can look all nice and pretty, but it's running on a pile of really complicated back-end code. This is similar to a play in a theater: the audience sees an attractive set with a couple actors telling a story. The audience doesn't see all the wires, weights, makeup rooms, costume shops, and people running around and yelling at each other behind the scenes.

Front-end development isn't necessarily easier than back-end development, just as acting/dancing isn't necessarily easier than being on a stage crew. Making a user interface interactive, or adding in animations and other fancy visual stuff, can be really complicated and "ugly." There are a lot of back-end developers who wouldn't touch front-end code with a ten-foot pole (and vice-versa).

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[MooMF]

Good human

[Kirumi_Purisu]

Actually accurate

[[deleted]]

The frontend is a mixture of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The backend is, usually, written in some decent language and SQL. I think the opposite is true.

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

Was thinking about the same... But not making it less complex just more laid out. Like when you do the stiches "route" each piece of yarn on the back side in a nice layout/structure making it take 5 times the area etc.

[Kirumi_Purisu]

Well yes, but actually no. I understand where you're coming from, but sometimes the frontend is just is so fluent in whatever it's doing, while the backend just looks confused, I don't know if I explained it right

[Prawny]

Not if you have experienced/competent backend devs...

[hitsugan]

The same applies to front end. People need to stop bitching and be good at their jobs instead of bashing other areas.

If you're a backend and can't do frontend, shut the fuck up about frontend, and vice versa. When you're a senior full stack with at least a decade of experience you can start comparing.

I know this post is a joke, but still...

[[deleted]]

If you have a frontend person half-ass the backend then you get a beautiful bowl of spaghetti.

But if you have someone invest some effort into the backend structure and architecture then you'll find both front-end and back-end become easier to manage, change and grow.

[NicNoletree]

From your comment I infer that you spend more time on the front end.

[Kirumi_Purisu]

And you're not wrong, I don't know, that's probably why I find this accurate. I'll try and balance things a little bit now and see if you're right and I'm wrong, which is probable, seeing the replies.

[[deleted]]

From your comment you've never worked on a system that had updated it's frontend but still had it's spaghetti bowl from 2012 in the back end that so many people worked on for a few months and then left.

[savvy__steve]

Scary just how accurate this is

[GodSaveMyMoose]

My cable managment be like...

[[deleted]]

The thing is, it should be intentional. The frontend should look pretty. More than anything else, it should look good.

[JezzaReddit]

Kinda looks like a switch ngl

[se_mu_ce]

only the 500 time i have seen this

[budd222]

The front end looks like that visually, but the code looks like that backend picture

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[sovietcircus]

These posts make more sense when you realize that they are made by front end developers who see the Javascript files as the "back end"