I consider myself a backend software engineer — and as any backend engineer would attest, a large part of our life is spent monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging our applications. The fundamental rule of software development is that software will fail — what separates new developers from experienced ones is how they plan for those failures. Robust and effective logging is an important part of planning for failure, and eventual mitigation. As it is for backend development, logging can be useful for frontend software development, but it goes much further than just troubleshooting and debugging. …