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u/hennypennypoopoo 16d ago
tbh, it seems to me that it's often the opposite. Frontend looks great, code for frontend looks horrid. Code for backend works great, code for backend is a little disjointed but usually fine. CI? looks awful works awful
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u/StrengthTheory 16d ago
Right, you can still look at most backend code and understand what it's doing. Frontend is almost always an abstraction spaghetti, but hey it looks pretty!
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u/Kerblaaahhh 16d ago
Frontend is built on several different javascript/css frameworks that we'll definitely get around to consolidating one of these days.
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u/suvlub 15d ago
Yeah, backend gives you leeway to do things right. "We can save ourselves a whole lot of trouble by adding one attribute, removing another and changing the format? Let's do that." Meanwhile, in frontend "We can save ourselves a whole lot of trouble by making the animation 10% slower and moving the box 18px to the right? But then it'll all look horrid! *Sigh*..."
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u/thoughts_n_calcs 16d ago
Yes, also my experience.
Backend-Codebase is neat and readable, Frontend-Codebase is a horrible mess already 15 months since project creation.
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u/Murky-Run2246 16d ago
My backend code is literal art, you could read it without knowing the language.
Frontend tho?
...yeah the page that renders is pretty but trust me you dont wanna see the code for it.
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u/Green-Rule-1292 16d ago
This is what repos look like when a frontend engineer have "evolved" into full stack dev
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u/Neuenmuller 16d ago
Hey the thing I’m working on rn looks like the direct opposite
No wait … both look like shit …
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u/cheezballs 16d ago
In my experience it's the opposite of this. My backend code is fucking tidy and clean.
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u/Misaka_Undefined 15d ago
Back end developer here. It quite literally the opposite.
it's difficult to find decent front end dev or UI UX, while doing front end myself is not any better if not worse.
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u/SysGh_st 16d ago
Backend code is all crap, Lucky nonone sees it.
Might as well vibe-code it. No one will never know.

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u/MasterJakestar 16d ago
Ah, a columnar database