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Their wordsthese labels provide a much-needed distinction between the types of web development that need to occur in order to build successful web things.
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The expansion of JavaScript has blurred the lines between different types of web developers.
Their wordsBut now that "JavaScript dun got big" , much of that code that would have historically been written in another language is now written in JavaScript, blurring lines between both front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end developers but also back-of-the-front-end and traditional back-end developers.
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