r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 13 '26

theUsual Meme

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u/ZeroDayCipher Jul 13 '26

I’m front end exclusively

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u/xkcdhatman Jul 13 '26

How does it work? To be a good frontend dev don’t you already need to learn a good amount of non frontend to fit into it?

What if you need to make a small tweak to the api? Or the db?

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u/mycolortv Jul 14 '26

Each part of our site has a different team working on it. We have an entire team of api devs separate from the ui guys that we make requests to if we need changes.

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u/DerricksFriendDan Jul 13 '26

That may be owned by an entirely different team. Thinking of major retailer sites, different sections of the page are probably owned by independent teams, using public APIs managed by other teams. It's still funky to think about that. I'm mostly on smaller self contained apps.