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Discussion on: What It's Like To Code For Amazon

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monicafidalgo profile image
The Coding Mermaid πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ

How did the ES5 situation ended? I'm thinking to myself, if I would feel happy working with "old code".. In the past I was in a project using jquery and I felt really sad... stuck.. since I felt that I was going backwards ... How do you feel with that situation?

And about needing help.. since you are the only frontend dev, how do you do when you need help from another person? And about the quality? Who checks your code quality? Is done by a backender?

Sorry for the questions, you got me super curious!

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Adam Nathaniel Davis • Edited

To be clear, it's not as though everything is ES5. It's just on this one side project for which I've been farmed out. And that little drama hasn't been completely resolved yet (although the team lead does seem to agree with me about the need to get off an ES5 standard).

My code is checked often by backend devs. Of course, the "backend" devs aren't usually 1000% backend. Most of them have written frontend code and are at least reasonably familiar with it.

However, when I truly need help on something, it can sometimes be a little tricky trying to get useful input from the other team members who don't typically touch any of the frontend code.