Front End Developer – JavaScript

Front End Developer – JavaScript

Every time you interact with a website, you are coming into contact with work of a Front End Developer. From click through links, to scrolling past animated visuals and refreshing the page, this is the intricate work of a Front End Developer who has coded, built and tested the site to create clean, seamless layouts and impressive animated visuals with the user in mind. 

Front End Developers are a critical link between the worlds of design and technology, combining usability with visual design to create a functional, attractive digital environment. Whilst Web or UI/UX Designers are primarily responsible for the way a site looks, Front End Developers are concerned with how that design gets implemented on the web. So their work involves design and layout of content, as well as components to navigate and enhance interaction with the site.

Responsibilities of a Front End Developer vary, depending on experience and the task at hand. Their core objective is prioritising user experience and bringing a concept to life with HTML, CSS or JavaScript. A Front End Developer may be responsible for maintenance of websites and web application user interfaces, implementing design for mobile sites, maintaining software workflow management and testing the site for usability, and fixing bugs.

Skilled Front End Developers are able to bridge the gap between the back end programming and creative web designers, so they will have a dual appreciation for aesthetics / usability and the technical realities and limitations of development.

There are three main components of Front End Development, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. HTML is a markup language related to laying out the content and structure of a page, like defining paragraphs, headings, data tables or images. CSS is the language of style rules, used in conjunction with the HTML content. Finally, JavaScript (not to be confused with Java) is a client side scripting language that allows a Front End Developer to implement complex features on web pages, such as dynamic updating content, control multimedia, animated images etc.

JavaScript has a robust selection of useful libraries and frameworks. As technology advances, the nature of these tools changes – in 2015 jQuery was the most widely used JavaScript library, but today libraries such as React, Angular, Vue, Node.js and Ember.js are becoming increasingly popular amongst Front End Developers.

To stay competitive in today’s tech climate, any business must have a website. As web development trends and best practices are constantly evolving, a Front End Developer must be keen to stay a step ahead of emerging technologies. As of January 2020 the internet has approximately 1.5 billion websites – infinite job security for Front End Developers.

Skilled Front End Web Developers are in constant demand. Below is an approximate guide for salary for a Front End Developer in London.

Graduate Front End Developer: (0 – 1.5 years commercial experience) a raw graduate / internship, very little industry exposure - £32k to £40k

Junior Front End Developer: (1.5 to 3 years commercial experience) able to understand programming systems, although requires further training - £40k to £60k

Mid-level / Intermediate Front End Developer: (3 to 5 years commercial experience) able to work independently and guide others but requires support on most complex tasks - £48k - £75k

Technical / Senior Front End Developer: (6+ years commercial experience) high-level coding ability, also involved in design / architecture, further managing projects / products and teams - £70k to £100k

Front End Development Manager /  CTO / VP Engineering: (8+ years commercial experience) takes management lead on R&D, involved in architecture / design but predominantly takes ownership of business strategy and high level technology decisions - £95k to £150k

You may encounter other job titles for a Front End Developer, including Frontend Developer, Front-end Developer, Front End Engineer, Front End Web Designer, Web Developer, JavaScript Developer, CSS/HTML Developer, Web/Front End User Interface (aka UI) Developer / Engineer

See current Front End Developer jobs here:

https://www.client-server.com/job-search?categories=Front+End+%26+Web+Development

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