It's an old topic, "where is the value of the front-end engineer?" some say, “the value of a front-end engineer's website is like the value of a make-up artist's star.” a good web front-end development engineer needs both a breadth and depth of knowledge systems. Of course, web's front-end engineer is not a designer, and the most exposed daily are codes, codes, or codes. How do you position yourself for that? Can your value be well represented? Now, the old words are all about exploring with developers the value of front-end engineers, hoping to be conscious of you。
Where is the value of the front-end engineer?
Let's see how the senior cow in the industry evaluates the front-end engineer:
Zhang krauts - front engineer for bean petals:
Individuals believe that front-end engineers are slowly evolving into product engineers. Wap app, responsive ui-based development based on HTML5 technologies will be a major element of the work of the front-end engineer to address product cross-platform realization. JavasCript, HTML, css, these front-end engineers, are familiar with languages that have been used for many years and will be supported by various platforms as open standards. The separation of product patterns and data is a trend. The demands of the mobile age on product morphology, while not being realized separately from technology, are costly. That's why HTML5, the standard that was set in '04, did not explode until the previous two years。
It is also of great value at this stage. Web products are increasingly complex to interact with, user experience and pre-site performance optimization, all of which need to be addressed by professional front-end engineers. In addition, the project has to compensate for the designer's lack of cross-design, with front-end engineers playing an important role in development. One or two front-end engineers will allow the entire development to go hand in hand, making the transition to design easier. Smart companies should have front-end engineer resources。
I don't think the front-end engineer has anything to do with the product manager. Good front-end engineers are going to be good interactive designers. A front-end engineer should understand the information architecture as much as a professional interactive designer。
Zhang longitude - front-end engineer:
Basic skills required by front-end engineers:
HTML css
JavasCript
Php/asp/ or other programming languages widely used in the web field
Fine arts, vision
The front-end engineers are oriented towards:
User
Browser
Data interface
Where is the value of the front-end engineer?
Technical support to simplify user use (interactive segment)
Support for compatibility of multiple browsers
Support to improve user browsing speed (browser performance)
Support for cross-platform or other webkit or other rendering engine-based applications
Support for displaying data (data interface)
Yuanhian cloud end engineer:
With regard to the value of the front-end attacker, i think it depends on the following:
1. More recently, with users, the most willing to speculate about users and the most well-known among engineers
2. The front end is full of innovation
3. Front-end skills javasCript, HTML, css..
4. Port, get, comet (round, long-duration, permanent frame, xhr stream), websocket
5. As a result of the development of the browser, many technology options began to favour the front end
The front end is not just desktop, but mobile, pad, tv...
Engineer web, plateau:
The core value, or responsibility, of being a front-end engineer is to finally present all the hearts and efforts of people to the users. In a technology development team, the people who are undoubtedly closest to the user are the front end, followed by ui, ue and products, followed by back end, dba and systems engineers。
If a technology development team is a football team, then the front-end engineer is undoubtedly the front-runner, and he gets the ball from his teammates to his feet, and all he has to do is get the ball right into the other side's door... And he has to be very clear about two things: 1. He has to know what obstacles exist between the other goal and himself; 2. He must know how to break these barriers and keep the ball on the net... And he should be the one who knows these two things most clearly among all the teams。
Each team has its own star, it can be a front-line killer, it can be a midfield combat car, it can be a superback, it can be a magic doorman, it can even be a fire-fighting coach. And there's a chance that any good player in any spot on the field will be able to break off the long-distance board and hit the goal. But any good team must have two kinds of division of labour, with previous players thinking of winning the game, and later players thinking that they can't lose the game if they can't do their job. And as a good front, you have to be the one on the team with the best goal-shooting skills.
Regardless of how technology changes, a user-to-user interface is to be achieved, which is an incontrovertible hard demand... Unless later on the human device's information interface does not depend on vision (directly linked to the mind), then the front end can only turn to the design of the organization and expression of the information only, so the final value of the front end is the design and realization of human interaction。
Lee chun-ping's research engineer:
There should be three paths, one forward, the other backward and the other forward. Moving forward is what has been said to be going forward to users ' experience and interactive design and even product designers, which best reflects the value of the front end, i. E. User experience, where most people go;
Backward is web development, going back to the database and backstage, without distinguishing between back-to-back and back-to-back, and moving further into product development. This is the path of integration with software engineers, which is the value of operational functionality;
Finally, there has been intensive forward-end development, such as the architecture of the front-end reservoirs and frameworks, w3c standards in-depth study, javasThe study of the cript language itself, the analysis of the principles of the browser, the analysis of the principles of the network transfer protocol, and so on, it is not easy to go deep, because there are many principles and fundamentals involved, so there are not many who go。
Of course, there are others that have left the front end and even the software development, moving to specialized products or operations. There might be some advantage in having a good technical background。
Other organiser
I think the front-end engineers need to see their value in two directions:
First direction: make it easier for users to access information. This is what front-end engineers in large sector companies should do. Get the psd, the code on the output line, and every detail in this process deserves you to be serious. The various interactions of the forms, the interaction of information between the different elements of the page (areas), are not necessarily ordinary ids that can guide you, and you need to rely on your technical skills and your own perception of user needs。
The value of this direction is: is access to information easier? So did your number of users rise? Did the online booking go up?
Second direction: make the front end more professional. This is what some college bulls do every day. Read norms, compare different versions and reflect on the meaning of introducing new characteristics (technical or commercial). Focus on the latest developments in the industry and identify innovative points, if possible, to stand on the shoulders of giants and build wheels blindly. Finally, both its own innovation and its own organized best-case solution to a problem at the present time will bring more support to the work of the entire industry and other front-end students in its own company。
More technically, the value of this direction may not be directly quantifiable for a short period of time, but in time it will be reflected in increased personal productivity, new models of page interaction and even new products。
Yuan liang - front-end engineer:
Product engineer-web product appization requires the front end to understand the design of the product and the details of its interactive realization so that the front end code structure can be reasonably extended!
Cross-platform devices are achieved - not just cross-platform compatibility of browsers. Physical equipment is now diverse and can be called the front end as long as it interacts directly with users!
Perfect elegance to achieve interactivity and design details - to reduce the details of interactivity and design, availability and accessibility with the most streamlined code and minimal cost!
The development of a combination of user experience and new technologies - htnl5 - allows for better and more rational delivery of web and mobile applications
Optimizing the performance of the front end of the website - saving user costs and corporate costs
The extended standard interface, a semantic page, allows the website to be further enhanced both from a seo perspective and from machine-readable lines, and the standardized extended data interface makes links to the back office more seamless. It also greatly enhances development efficiency。
In the business of website image, pr - presents company website and corporate image in the most visible way!
Front-end requirements
1. There is a need to understand the logic of the product and the process of its formation - those interested in developing the product page are involved in the product discussion phase and understand the needs of the product. And understand the hidden needs of the product!
2. Need for interactive details - interested persons wishing to participate in the development of product pages participate in interactive discussions to understand the details of interaction and design! Make the page structure sound and scalable!
3. There is a need to understand the data interface - to understand the data required for product-related modules and to communicate with the relevant technicians to document。
4. Need for technology accumulation and learning about new technologies - hope for intra-team exchanges, brainstorms! Learn to know the latest industry technologies and participate in industry exchanges!
5. Need a sense of achievement and satisfaction。
Concluding remarks:
The front end is the bridge between backstage realization and visual performance, the link that runs through the entire product development process, and a good front-end engineer who understands well the requirements of the product manager for the user body, as well as the requirements of the back-office engineer for the separation of data logic or programme logic, and translates them into the development of the front office. The front end is the face of the website, which is much more valuable than other client developments。
