Overview

This video lecture, transcripted by, Eric Miraglia helps web developers to understand the meaning of frontend development.

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Another way to think about it is that frontend engineers tell browsers what to do. We’d all love it if that were easier, but there’s such a diversity of browsers, and browser capabilities, that figuring out how to instruct them to do what we want, is our job. An even simpler answer might be to say we’re responsible for “view source”. So, regardless of how your organization or your team is structured, the frontend engineer is responsible for everything that gets sent over the wire to the user’s browser. So if you “view source” on any page, everything you see there is the result of decisions made by frontend engineers.

About the author

Eric Miraglia, learn more about the author here.

About the lector

Nate Koechley, or see more in LinkedIn.

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1. Nate Koechley: “The YUI CSS Foundation”