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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad (Repeat)
Description: Originally published December 20, 2018Ten years ago, there was a distinction between โbackendโ and โfrontendโ developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be responsible for implementing designs and arranging buttons using raw HTML and JavaScript.Today, developers can build entire applications in JavaScript. Developers who spent their early career developing frontend JavaScript skills are finding themselves with a surprising amount of power. With NodeJS providing a backend framework and React, Vue, or Angular on the frontend, a single JavaScript developer can writ...