How is a Front-End Developer like a Nurse?

How is a raven like a writing desk?

No one knows. At the time Lewis Carroll created the riddle, he didn’t have an answer for it, although later he did come up with one. Fortunately, the question of how a Front-End Developer is like a nurse is not a riddle. To understand how they’re alike, the question of what a Front-End Developer does must first be answered.

Types of Developers

In software development, one will hear three main types of developers referenced.

• Back-End Developer
• Front-End Developer
• Full-Stack Developer

Back-end developers are responsible for the back of the software. The places that users don’t see where the foundation of the program’s functionality lies. A back-end developer creates the server-side of an application and codes the foundation of the program.

A front-end developer takes that foundation and builds a useable application. Front-end developers mediate the world between technology and design. Their main goal is to make certain that a user can interact easily with the application. They do this by coding a website’s appearance using both design and technology.

Another key responsibility of their job is to find and eliminate bugs. Additionally, they will determine that the application is accessible to users across browsers.

Full-Stack Developers do both front and back end development.

How is a Front-End Developer like a Nurse?

Now that the role of a Front-End Developer is clear, we can return to our original question.

If you’ve ever been to the doctor, you’ve probably experienced the confusion that comes when he or she uses complicated words to diagnose you. Instead of pulling out your phone to google what singultus means, a nurse will often be on hand to point out that singultus is hiccups.

Nurses do so much more than define what an unfamiliar medical word means. She explains. He answers questions. Nurses provide the care to make one feel better.

The doctor is responsible for diagnosing and laying a plan of treatment. The nurse ensures that a patient is cared for. Doctors are about the disease. Nurses are about the patient.

Back-End Developers are in charge of the core of the programming, and Front-End Developers are in charge of the care of the user.

Both doctors and nurses are invaluable for our medical care. Both Front and Back end developers are necessary to create functional and useable programming.

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