<blockquote>Angular and other big-iron web frameworks are not an affront to front-end devs. They are just the latest manifestion of a long-term trend: code moving from the server to the browser. Let's define "front-end" to mean the parts of the app relating to user interface, rather than those that happen to be running in the browser's JavaScript VM. If we assign tasks to our developers accordingly, we will see that the new world of single-page web apps is very much like the old one. Plus ça change...</blockquote>