What I like about the term is that ‘Front-End’ literally means the browser, and while the job has been changing quite a lot — and is perhaps fracturing before our eyes — the fact that the job is about doing browser work is still true. Our industry seems to have acknowledged that backend and frontend developers require very different skills (even though they often use the exact same language), and yet it’s struggling to see there’s too much bundled into the term “front-end developer”. There’s an awful lot of front-end developers where their job solely focuses on JavaScript. [Excerpt created on 05/01/2020]