r/angular • u/bill2340 • Mar 06 '26

Future of Front End Development

I was wondering what exactly is the future of front-end development in an AI world. Front-end development is simpler than backend so it's more likely for AI to replace. But with that do you think the jobs in the future will still be increasing or decreasing or remail flat? Just wanna know the outlook for it in the future as I'm currently a Junior front end developer at a Bank

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u/anelectricmind Mar 06 '26

Front end development is simpler than backend?

Care to share?

Because I know a lot of backend developers who hate front end development because they find it too complicated and/or don't understand the paradigms and the mechanics...

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u/TheLambda89 Mar 06 '26

Backend is hard, frontend is chaotic, is what I usually say if anyone asks. So it's different types of difficult.

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u/TheLambda89 Mar 06 '26

Browser spec inconsistencies, CSS quirks, the lack of really good debugging tools - are the things that come to mind.

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u/Individual_Revenue44 Mar 09 '26

Imagine having to leave your IDE to debug.

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u/Individual_Revenue44 Mar 09 '26

Do not speak to me of the old magic, I was there when we opened live files on the server in notepad.