Frontend, backend and full‑stack (walk into a bar)

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A recorded dialogue between Vadim Makeev and Andrey Melikhov explores whether frontend developers need backend and DevOps skills, compares templating approaches on frontend vs backend, and discusses the costs of making frontend more complex. The conversation also covers specialization versus full-stack roles and clarifies the frontend developer’s area of responsibility, using practical industry perspectives from HTML Academy and Yandex.Money.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:44Frontend vs backend
3. 25:39Frontend roles
4. 38:01DevOps and frontend
5. 51:35Performance importance
6. 1:02:14Design and frontend
7. 1:10:19Frontend testing
8. 1:14:17Summary

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