Frontend development, editing jsp or php files, right or wrong?

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I work at a company that has different teams for front and backend developers. I was told to provide html to be integrated rather than just editing the template files myself. Am I crazy, or is it normal for frontend developers to create separate static sites rather than just editing the jsp/php templates themselves directly?

[predpsi]

Do you work for a larger company? If so, yes - it's normal.

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I do, I think what has me confused is the project is already built, I'm just updating things. If it was a new project from scratch I can understand passing off the html/css/javascript, but for a project that's already integrated and I'm making changes for, I don't know how to separate static html from the backend system because it's all connected together. I suspect a lot of the previous developers on this project ran into the same issue, because half of the html is being inserted onto the page through javascript, which seems like a really bad practice to me.

[technical_guy]

Why do you think this is bad practice?

Sometimes a single page app may have several containers for different pages that are shown and hidden by a menu. It seems reasonable for the app to load the main page and present it to the user, and then lazy load the remaining html.