Front-end development essentially means creating ways in which users can interact with client scripts embedded in the HTML code of a site. Everything user sees, clicks, uses for data input, or to gather information is a result of front-end development. A user interface development company creates client a software that brings to life the site's design. The browser loads and processes the scripts and then runs them separately from the server. Therefore, this process is equally influenced by both web developer's vision and modern technologies.
Front-end developer is a designer and a programmer all at once, so front-end experts have to be both creatively and technically gifted. Ever wondered, how design concept becomes a functioning site? This is the front-end code in action – the one that breaks the project down into parts, and then provides the information and functionality created by back-end developers.
Overall, they create web applications that are best suited for desktop functionality.
They focus their attention on the user interface, and how smooth, intuitive, and natural depends entirely on technologies web developers choose.
Front-end development doesn't mean just create the layouts. Staff must have expert knowledge of JavaScript, understand how frameworks and libraries work, and actively use them, know what's going on on the server side. The developer doesn't get scared of preprocessors and LESS, SASS, GRUNT, and GULP, works with DOM, API, SVG-objects, AJAX и CORS, puts together SQL queries and analyses data. This is a combination of different skills to which we should also add the understanding of UI/UX, adaptive web design, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, and sometimes even mobile app development basics.
Front-end development expert has to work with version control systems (Git, GitHub, CVS, etc.), use graphics editors, play around with templates and layouts for different CMSs.