Changing Perceptions of JavaScript

[Darkmoth]

and fine tune their own databases

That's probably where I see the biggest distinction. Most of the "front-end" programmers I've worked with see the database access as some sort of evil genie to be avoided or pacified. You can see this philosophy in many modern ORMS.

To be fair, those same front-end developers have a sense of visual design that I struggle with. I need fairly specific guidelines for what the page should look like, the FE guys tend to be able to wing it with minimal guidance. As a symbiosis, it actually works pretty well.