However, as the roles of the front-end developer have stretched into the realms of ‘engineering’, it has created a split: Front-of-the-front-end: UI focused Back-of-the-front-end (referred to as ‘Engineering’ from now): Integration focused(Terms coined by Brad Frost)Again, this isn’t a bad thing. It gives folks the choice to specialise in what they’re good at. It can, however, become a problem when: Either party are forced to build in each others domain specialism It is assumed that th

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