Would you not consider the people working on those libraries to be front-end dev...

j-krieger · on July 28, 2022

They are developing those for their companies or in their free time.

If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.

Development is full of compromises.

schwartzworld · on July 29, 2022

> They are developing those for their companies

And what do you think their job title and experience are?

> If I‘m hiring a front-end developer I‘m sure as hell not paying them to write custom datepickers all day.

This is the opposite of what you said above.

likortera · on July 29, 2022

Yes, those are frontend developers, we all agree with that.

Should every frontend developer be reinventing date pickers from scratch just to demonstrate how good they are? I don't think so.

That's why I said 99%. Maybe there's an 1% or even less where it makes sense to reinvent it because you're Airbnb or Amazon or Google or you are in the date pickers business.

But yes, you are still a frontend developer if you don't do your own datepicker and focus on shipping your company product. And date pickers are built by frontend developers. What's your point?