January 2025
Beginner
480 pages
12h 25m
English
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Chapter 13. Setting Up the Frontend
The core functionality of the backend is in place, so now it’s time to focus on building the frontend. This is how your customers will be able to use the product and interface with all the backend functionality you have. The frontend is the face of the product your company is building and growing. No matter how cool your data is or how fast your APIs are, if the user experience is bad, then it will be hard for customers to want to use the product.
The frontend requires a different type of thinking from the backend because some user research is involved to see how designs and layouts make people feel about the product. Usually, the Product team or other stakeholders will get the direct user feedback and help translate it into designs, which get passed to you. Then it’s time for you to start your magic.
In this chapter, I’ll cover:
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How to choose a frontend framework
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How to choose other packages for your framework
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Some long-term decisions you can make now
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Why this frontend project will use React
As you start thinking through how you want to set up this new frontend repo, study the designs you have and ask about the Product roadmap so that you can consider the direction in which the app is intended to grow. Ask every little question that comes to mind as you go through the designs and look at them from a user perspective. You’ll be surprised how many conditions you can come up with!
Just like with every project, though, you have to get ...
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