Development of Web front-end development industry

The past, present and future of--web front-end development

Since the first web site was born in the early 90, the early pages were made entirely of text, with the exception of small pictures and no layout-related headings and passages. However, the Times in progress, followed by the table layout, then Flash, and finally based on CSS web design. Admittedly, the front-end page refactoring technology is also experiencing such a process: Table layout page →DIV+CSS→HTML5+CSS3, facing numerous browsers and platforms, the Web front-end is no longer the same simple repetitive work. Let us have a brief understanding of the development of the Web front-end development industry.

Looking back on the Web front-end development of the past, August 1991, Tim Berners-lee released the first simple, text-based, containing a few links to the site, which also has a taste of our front-end development engineer positions have been generated. This more than 20-year front-end restructuring of the industry, the title of our position is also changing: Page Aberdeen, Chettu Tsai, art, page production, to the present "front-end production"; JS class development of the name: Zombie Aberdeen, to the present "front-end development." Because HTML and CSS entry starting point is low, the small company's "art" still doing such work: Out of the picture (photoshop/firework) → Chettu (html/css), in the face of uneven technical personnel, written code quality are not standardized, JavaScript base is generally poor, the Web page structure, interactive demand is not intuitive understanding, do not know what users need, this stage of the site most of the full station effect fly all day. Front end is a catch, what will be, what should be competent: Will JS, will flash, table production, will be optimized, UI design, but also the background program language (such as php,jsp, etc.). The so-called is the ability to have everything to have, must understand, play the role of Snake Balm.

In the web2.0 thought gradually accepted by the public, to the practitioners also put forward many new requirements. Our page needs to consider most of the user's needs, now the front end is not like the so-called front end, now the front-end industry has a clear division of labor, the Division of labor has been refined and clear, each of the responsibilities play a different role, such as the primary front-end development engineer → Senior Front-End engineers → front-end architects. The advent of the 3G era, almost all the fields of the site will be transplanted to the mobile internet, plus the domestic several major private Web front-end technology organizations, and constantly promote the Web standard technology, promote the front-end technology industry development, front-end development engineers are increasingly high. Now the front-end work is not only a technology, but also an art.

With the popularization and development of the network, the Web site as a very powerful tool and platform more and more integrated into people's lives, and the most closely related to the user front-end technology has gradually received due attention. We can see that the front-end restructuring of the industry has great potential, the major well-known network companies to the front-end talent hunger if thirsty. In recent years, the popularity of HTML5 and CSS3, as well as the rise of mobile web, both Apple and Google are driving the development of the mobile sector, and now front-end development is increasingly focused on the user experience. Relatively speaking, the front end of the talent demand than before has a qualitative leap. We hope that practitioners: "We are not to learn technology to learn technology, we learn technology is to better to do products." Last quote jobs, the Web is the future, and we as front-end developers are the future. Believe that the Web front-end development will be better tomorrow.