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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (27 children)

If that were true, you'd have more front end devs being able to do backend instead of the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p>Hello World</p>
  </body>
</html>

here i wrote you a frontend

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And yet it still works better than a MB of JS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How are you managing the state?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes. It'll look like a Geocities page, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Pah, as if Geocities had the good taste to use courier new.

Also, more seriously, if all the client needs is a geocities page is it reasonable for a front end developer to build it in react?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As a backend person, lol no. I mean I can make a thing that works, but it will require eye bleach afterwards, and I'll hate every moment of building it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not all, but more than front enders being able to do backend is my point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They think they can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

yes, according to every project manager i’ve worked with.

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