What are the values of front-end engineers?

In the front-end business, I am a relatively uneasy person, and I have had more or less thoughts on the value of the front-end. I 've seen these people talk about it, I suddenly felt that my understanding of things was still very green... I have organized several pieces of company engineers to understand the value of front-end engineers !!! I hope you will be inspired by this experience.

"The road is long, and I will try again and again"

Douban front end:

The front-end engineers are gradually becoming product engineers. The development of WAP apps, responsive UI, and other HTML5 technologies will become the main work of front-end engineers to solve cross-platform and cross-device product implementation problems. Javascript, HTML, and CSS are familiar to front-end engineers. The languages used for many years will be supported by various platforms as open standards. The separation of product forms and data is the trend. Although the requirements for diversified product forms in the mobile age can be achieved by different technologies, they are costly. This is also the reason why HTML5 came up with the standard in the 04 years, which was not popular until the previous two years.

At this stage, the value is also great. Web product interaction becomes more and more complex. User Experience and website front-end performance optimization require professional front-end engineers to solve these problems. In addition, it is necessary to make up for the lack of designers in interactive design in the project. Front-end engineers play an important role in the development process. One or two front-end engineers can parallel the entire development, making the design-to-implementation transformation smoother. Wise Companies should reserve front-end engineer resources.

I don't think there is any relationship between front-end engineers and product managers. Good front-end engineers will surely become good Interaction designers. Front-end engineers should have no less understanding of the information architecture than professional Interaction designers.

Sina frontend:

The core value or responsibility of front-end engineers is to present all the painstaking efforts and efforts of everyone to the users perfectly. In a technical development team, there is no doubt that the people closest to the user are the front-end, followed by the UI, UE and products, followed by the back-end, DBA and System Engineers.

If a technology development team is a football team, the front-end engineer is undoubtedly a forward engineer. He is duty-bound to receive the ball from his teammates, all you need to do is to make sure that the ball is accurate to the opponent's goal ..... he must be very clear at two points: 1. He must be clear about the obstacles between the opponent's goals and himself; 2. He must be clear about how to break these obstacles and bring the ball to the portal ..... he should also be the one who knows the two points most clearly for all players.

Each team has its own stars, which can be a front-line killer, a midfield chariot, a super guard, a magic goalkeeper, or even a fire-fighting coach. I also believe that excellent players in any position on the court may be able to take a long-distance drive from the backcourt and take a targeted shot! However, any excellent team must have two types of division of labor. The former player wants to win the game, and the latter wants not to lose the game, so that they can do their jobs well.

As a competent Striker, you must be the one with the most scoring skills and the best shooting skills in the team. Otherwise, what value do you have ....

Baidu frontend:

There are three ways to go. One is to move forward, the other is to move backward, and the other is to keep working at the front-end. Moving forward is what Ke Jun said about user experience, interaction design, and even product designers. This is the best embodiment of the value of the front-end, that is, the user experience, most people will go in this way;

The backward direction is web development, which is used for database and background development. It no longer distinguishes the frontend and backend. We are deeply engaged in product R & D and implementation. This path is the road to integration with software engineers, this value is embodied in the implementation of business functions;

Finally, some of them have been deeply engaged in front-end development, such as the architecture design of various front-end libraries and frameworks, in-depth research on W3C standards, research on the Javascript language itself, and analysis on the principles of browsers, for the principle analysis of network transmission protocols, it is not easy to go deep. Because many principles and fundamental things are involved, there are not many people going on.

Of course, there are also some products or business operations that have completely left the front-end and even software development. It may be advantageous to have a good technical background.

 

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