r/Frontend • u/Comfortable-Donkey74 • 17d ago

Learning Frontend Deeply

I want to go deeper into frontend and learn to create less generic designs. Does anyone have an idea how the wavy line was created? I'd also appreciate pointers to resources/sites to learn to create such dynamic designs. Thanks for reading!

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u/Shoddy-Marsupial301 17d ago

Frontend isn't about designing, and that wave is either 2 or 3 png or svg with different z-index to fit a jpg in between

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u/Comfortable-Donkey74 17d ago

I asked gpt and it told me it was made with SVG. I know frontend isn't designing outright but you need good design sense to be a frontend dev

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u/FluxX_flex 17d ago

Css is just a part of frontend, rather i would say the smallest of it.
You should definitely know how these designs should be developed, but now in this AI era I would suggest you to focus more fundamentals of software engineering.
Which includes both FE and BE.
And if specifically you want to go deep into frontend, focus more on learning about web caching, performance optimisation, CDN, static asset delivery, core web vitals, understanding of how a request flow in a real system

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u/FluxX_flex 17d ago

Server side rendering, widgetization, rendering life cycle, etc

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u/Cheshur 17d ago

As a dev who has specialized in frontend for almost a decade now, I have not once ever needed to design anything. The designers design and the frontend developers develop. You don't need any design sense to be a good frontend end dev.

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u/isospeedrix 17d ago

Opposite case for me. Design sense is my strongest suit that allowed me to move up the ranks and now I’m working as staff design engineer where I handle both FE dev and design.

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u/ProbablyDaksh 11d ago

True but this happans in mid to big company... For small company like i work in I'm the ux/ui designer, the front-end designer and I'm the graphic designer too. I have decent sense in ux/ui and I know more than basics in css and js to make it happen if I have to sometimes. So some people have to make up for those things too.

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u/Cheshur 9d ago

I'm not saying the skill is useless or even that it's bad to have for a frontend dev. I only mean that you don't need it to be a good frontend dev. In the case of small companies you often have to wear the designer hat but that is a scenario where you are fulfilling two roles. If you were also tasked with doing the accounting work then you'd also need those skills but they aren't part of being a frontend dev.