Do you guys think that "front end" web design will ever die?

In the context of web: Good lord I hope so.

No

I really fucking hope so

If so... it will be back in some way:

https://youtu.be/xaPxKj1bjvc?t=52

Why? You want your device to be filled with apps so badly?)

Will usage of hash tags in devrant die out first?

No. There is so much built around "web development"

Lots of things need to be killed for it to die. And I don't like to see that happen anytime soon

Front end in general? I hope not.

Javascript based frameworks? Yes please.

As web design is all about frontend in the first place i seriously doubt it.

Probably in a post-apocalyptic web environment.

It might decrease but I don't think it'll fully die. Unless all our technology dies.

@rooter we also got faster internet connection and, God damned, PWAs. So I'd say it's even yet.

It's a dream of mine. Until then, I stick to terminal outputs.

we should first try to ask ourselves, what will the web be without frontend?
I don't think we can have just all apps and API's. We need the HTML web with browsers still, which to me is the most beautiful part of the web.

I mean there will always have to be front-ends.

But doing it all via javascript, front-end frameworks, and a dozen npm packages (with 6400 dependencies).

That shit needs to die fuckin yesterday.

Just write some HTML5/CSS3 and maybe some light pure ES6 for event handling.

The CSS3 animations are hardware accelerated by most mobile devices, so that's the best way to animate anyway.

It's not at all hard.

TBH, I think front-end went off the rails batshit after being told for years about their HTML and CSS "that's not programming" so they invented a completely overly complicated way to do the same thing with server side javascript that HTML and CSS had been doing for like 30 years breaking MVC in the process... but that did qualify as programming, and I blame that damn Zucherberg.

@vintprox short answer: kinda
The web frond-end is a huge waist of time on the developer end and user end. (All conferences about web tech should be called re:Invent)
It would be ideal if we have a new interface language that is designed to describe app interfaces. And like all GUI API's still has an option for custom elements but that rarely needs to be used. Also a standard way of identification would be lovely so you don't have to log in everywhere all the time.
Technically you still need to deliver the frond-end so you don't need to "install" an app (hence the sort of) but we can't call it web front-end anymore because we have native app frond-ends now. That's basically the same way apps work now. The crux is in security/device access authorisation and delivery. This is what installing an app is currently about.