Why Front-End Development is Here to Stay
Front-end technology is based on the Internet industry. As long as the industry is still there, it will be useful and valuable.
Although the popularity of computers and mobile phones has long been completed, and the growth rate is not so large, the application of the Internet in various fields is constantly being updated and upgraded. It has been embedded in all areas of our lives, just like water and electricity.
With the Internet industry, various toC pages, official accounts, and applets, various toB management systems and rich client applications are needed. It requires front-end development technology and front-end talents.
You may blindly follow "the front end is dead", but you will never agree that "the Internet will die", which is very contradictory-of course, our lives and the Internet are full of contradictions.
At present, there are dozens of roles for Internet practitioners. Everyone performs their own duties, and it is only then that a large company with tens of thousands of people is built.
Even the current online frauds are large-scale and organized.
If the front-end is replaced by a full-stack this year, the operation and maintenance will be replaced by a full-stack next year, and the product will be replaced by a full-stack in the next year... and it means that the Internet will go backwards - this is obviously wrong.
PS: Development is not necessarily linear, it may be ups and downs, there must be a period of strong growth, and there must be a period of relaxation-but the overall growth must continue.
There is no alternative technology on the front end
The front-end has slowly occupied other technical fields, such as client and server.
New technologies such as Flutter WebAssembly are supplements to current front-end technologies, and real TS is not intended to replace ES, it is also a supplement and an alternative.
Browser + HTML CSS JS + HTTP, there is currently no technology that can replace it, but they are accelerating their evolution and improvement. The Vue React applet has now firmly occupied the high ground, and the paradigm of front-end technology has long been formed.
ChatGPT cannot replace programmers
No matter how it is advertised on the Internet, all artificial intelligence in the field of people's livelihood, including intelligent driving, is strictly speaking: artificial intelligence assistance .
To assist is to serve people. Serving people's independent thinking ability and creativity, not mechanical and repetitive work.
ChatGPT is essentially a secondary encapsulation of a search engine. It can better understand your input intent, and it can help you splicing and returning results more accurately. But it is just an auxiliary tool. It can help you improve your efficiency if you use it well, but only if someone uses it.
You can think about the daily work content, meetings, communication, wrangling, etc. Can AI participate?
Does it understand your business needs?
Can it help you complete the development and joint debugging of complex modules?
Does it help you communicate with other colleagues?
All it can do is help you write some fixed code and documentation, nothing more.
Now that there are search engines, we say "programming for Google" may become "programming for ChatGPT" in the future to improve efficiency.
Summarize
- The Internet industry will continue to develop
- Development requires weak compensation, subdividing industry roles
- There is no alternative technology on the front end, it is an important role
Therefore, the front end cannot die, but it has been temporarily dormant due to environmental reasons recently, and its development has been slow.
current suggestion
Those who have a job should hold on first, and those who have already resigned or graduated, don't be too anxious. Even if there are few job opportunities, this is not your problem. People can't compete with the general environment. I was too busy working overtime before, but now I rarely have time, so I just freely arrange to do some things I wanted to do before. After all, life is short, not just for work, everyone has their own unique hobbies.
Maybe after a while, you will no longer have the chance to be so free. If you don't do some things now, you may no longer have opportunities and motivation in this life.
