Frontendre

Frontendre is a term used in some web development discussions to describe an approach to front-end work that foregrounds a cohesive, end-to-end user experience by integrating front-end development with back-end considerations from early in the project lifecycle. It positions the user’s journey as a central design and engineering constraint.

Origin and usage: The term appears in a handful of blogs and design-system dialogues from the mid-2020s and is not an officially recognized standard. Practitioners use frontendre to signal practices that bring front-end decisions into closer alignment with data models, APIs, and server behavior.

Core principles include user-centered thinking, performance awareness, accessibility, design-system collaboration, and progressive enhancement. Frontendre advocates for treating UI as a living interface that must gracefully handle varying network conditions, device capabilities, and data availability.

Practices commonly associated with frontendre include component-driven development, explicit API contracts, shared data models across client and server, performance budgets, and a preference for server-side rendering or hybrid rendering when appropriate. The approach stresses cross-functional teams and early design-system collaboration.

Frontendre overlaps with related ideas such as full-stack front-end, progressive enhancement, and platform design. Critics argue that the term can be vague or duplicative of existing concepts, and that its value depends on clear tooling and governance rather than terminology.

See also: Front-end development, Design system, Progressive enhancement. In practice, a frontendre workflow might begin with jointly defined UI requirements, API schemas, and performance targets to align the front-end code with backend capabilities.