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RemusWasTaken
5y

I hate doing front-end development...
I was hired along with another dev to build a webapp to manage the personnel of this big (2000+) company.
I made the backend and some of the frontend (mainly handling the data movement between the two), but my partner was let go after we delivered a first version because "there was not enough work for both of us".
The backlog is months of work for me and now I have to do everything and it's wearing me down...
I want to quit but it's paying well and I don't want to search for something new.
What do?

rant

front-end

vuejs

kill me
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  • 4
    5y
    You should ask for raise. Atleast 1.5 x of what they are paying you because of extra work load
  • 1
    5y
    The wondrous lands of JS, I'm often happy only to have caught a glimpse.

    But, if it's really a one man show, with all the liberty, can't you make things easy for you? Refactor the shit out of that thing so changes are not so painful. Or has code base and feature list already grown too big? Is there a way to trim it down? - If it's internal use, you should get good feedback of what's actually not needed or unused?
  • 1
    5y
    make a list why it's a bad idea to waste your backend abilities (for what they've hired you) on front end.
    In Dollar and cent's and usability wise.

    Because good design (usability) is expensive but the cost of bad design is even higher. For example the efficency of that tool, how long it takes for the user to use that tool is direct corralated to time = money.

    and go to your manager and tell them to hire an Interaction Design web agency for the front end. It will pay off as it will be a pleasant to use tool.
  • 2
    5y
    Look for other jobs while you work there. Personally I'm always "looking"
  • 1
    5y
    @phorkyas The first task was basicly a fancy CRUD with some analysing and visualization tools. But the users liked it so much they want everything in there now.
    The backend work is quite easy (1/3 of my time) but the frontend is a bit messy and hard to add new features. I need to refactor lot's of it.
  • 1
    5y
    So, refactor it and keep plugging away. It doesn't sound so bad to me. In fact, it sounds like a hell of an improvement over some of the non-sense projects I've been working this year.
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