First: What kind of working definition of "developer" are you using?
I'm inclined to say "yes". I am a front-end developer, working on everything from HTML/CSS + JS to the RoR app (controller & views, mostly. Rarely do I make changes to models, but I do poke in there to see how certain things are implemented, etc.)
Perhaps if you had asked "are front-end engineers really 'engineers'?", I would be inclined to answer "No".
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First: What kind of working definition of "developer" are you using?
I'm inclined to say "yes". I am a front-end developer, working on everything from HTML/CSS + JS to the RoR app (controller & views, mostly. Rarely do I make changes to models, but I do poke in there to see how certain things are implemented, etc.)
Perhaps if you had asked "are front-end engineers really 'engineers'?", I would be inclined to answer "No".