> The fact of the matter is frontend tech debt is just SO MUCH cheaper than backend tech debt.
Seeing someone mention this as an opinion, let alone asserting it as fact, is a first for me!
I had the opposite impression, but I'm not sure how I'd debate it as fact without some observational analysis of dependencies and frequency of breaking changes in various frontend and backend projects.
Would you prefer to be on call at 2am to immediately fix something that blew up on the backend that caused an outage, or be given a couple of days to just patch a weird bug that only affects a few users on the frontend?
If you said frontend bugs are cheap I'd agree with you.
But when you say tech debt o don't think about bugs I think about updating dependencies and dealing with their breaking changes. That feels worse to me in frontend code than in backend code. Not for some intrinsic reason but I guess just culturally.
Seeing someone mention this as an opinion, let alone asserting it as fact, is a first for me!
I had the opposite impression, but I'm not sure how I'd debate it as fact without some observational analysis of dependencies and frequency of breaking changes in various frontend and backend projects.