I’m not a fronted focused person but on my current project I’m doing a lot of it and it’s the first time I’m having pleasure in doing so. This is heavily thanks to LV and Surface.
I even took pleasure in doing some light-weight JS coding through hooks.

I love working on the front end as well. Sometimes I feel like there is more variety on the backend and more silly caveats to frontend work like “why is this broken on X browser/device…”. I came from a design background though so maybe I have just spent more time analyzing frontend problems.

Liveview was one of the things that originally got me interested in elixir and definitely made frontend work much more interesting to me, I personally feel like it’s a gamechanger in terms of what can be done for the user experience. Also being able to integrate react via hooks allows for some awesome stuff.

If you like frontend/UI/UX problems there is a book I highly recommend called The Design of Everyday Things, it doesn’t really focus on “tech” but I think I have applied more knowledge from that book than any other when building software.

I have heard good things about Surface. I will have to take a look!

What part of Frontend do you have the toughest time with?