Does even a web front-end developer have to be able to operate Linux?

Question

I've never touched that pitch-black screen before, so I can't imagine what it's used for.

Answer 1

Frankly speaking,

If someone has not seen or know their way around a terminal I wouldn't consider them a developer.
They may be interns, junior devs maybe designers but not developers.
With that out of the way, let's talk about Git.

Calviղ Thank you for bringing up Git. it's exactly true most of the time people are exposed to terminals first time due to Git.
And there are many GUI tools like.

1. Sourcetree - Pretty neat UI, makes, switching , stashing, push-pulls easy.

2. TortoiseGit - Best revision graph and diff tool.

But things like interactive rebase , revert, reset gets complicated or impossible through GUI so one must know terminal.

Another reason to encounter terminals is when team follows Infrastructure as a Code practices and do development in cloud environment where mostly linux images are used to keep cost low.

If you don't know terminal I highly suggest make it your friend, it ll bump up your XP like crazy.

Answer 2

Code Crasher Thanks for sharing your insight 😀

"I have co-workers doing the same job that scream while running away from it. They want a mouse"
This part cracked me up 😂😂😂

You know I was the opposite, I remember using mouse only while browsing on my Ubuntu OS and used to hate windows ( I still try to hate it, but it's a necessity if you are working with others 😒 )

But after working 1.5 years on windows I have made my peace with it.
Learning powershell was the first step towards that peace treaty 😎

Definitely check out my 2018 post back then.
https://www.sololearn.com/post/55496/?ref=app

While looking for this 👆post I also found one more helping post suggesting using terminals in daily development.

https://www.sololearn.com/post/61186/?ref=app

Answer 3

Not linux ...but you may need to work with bash and git..

Answer 4

IMO, is worth to learn to use pitch black screen called terminal or command line in windows. If you want to test using node and other command line tools

Answer 5

Window user web developers should learn some simple linux commands like ls, mkdir, mv, cp, pwd, etc..

You would understand why you need these linux commands, once you start to use git commands, which is a must learn vision control tool for all developers.

Git is installed with git bash, which is a emulated linux terminal. Git is best run on linux environment.
With git bash, it would enable Window users run git and linux commands there.

Answer 6

No not need of operate linus

Answer 7

Of course no. Linux just OS like Windows. You can use Linux GUI version rather than terminal version.

Answer 8

it would certainly help... I started using linux absolutely clueless but you will find you start to learn bash and so on in no time

Answer 9

Linux is the best friend of a developer

Answer 10

You can be a front-end developer without using the Linux system. If you are a front-end developer with multiple platforms and systems, this increases the outcome of your knowledge and skill.

Answer 11

Mostly you need to increase your skill on several platforms if you are a desktop application developer

Answer 12

If you are in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, yes.

Answer 13

Do your clothes and your brain has any connection to work properly😂😂😂