I quite agree with this article. Frontend today is not about static HTML, CSS and JS animations anymore.
Lack of proper tests, architecture, etc. are important to the front-end code as well. Do you agree? Are we moving towards the right direction with Flux, ReactJS and other cool stuffs?
My Angular frontend is completely detached. The communicates are only over API interfaces and with nginx as a proxy.
yes, by considering the web frame works , state architectures , ui design we can consider them as a separate application
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It's not the best article to start a discussion like this because it's one-sided and a bit ignorant. But it wouldn't be fair to comment on it further here on hashnode.
To your question. IMO, yes, front-end is a separate application to me. Because... We are in the middle age of micro services (we know them since years but called them SOA not long time ago) and one service is about UI. To me, it's not React+Flux alone which helps to shape the future of front-end. It's the community thinking about how ES6/ES7, TypeScript, Elm, etc., you name it, can be used to ease things up or get rid of simple awkward tasks.