After you read a bit on it, you can really learn a lot by opening wireshark and watching what's going on, googling for tutorials and documentation to understand the settings.
As a front end developer there is actually a lot of networking involved making requests to the servers. It's really helpful to have a high level picture of how http works, and what common networking failure modes are, so you can use better abstractions in your code, expect common failures and shown nice error messages or retry requests, test your app's connections using wirshark to make sure there aren't extra round trips slowing it down, etc.
As a front end developer there is actually a lot of networking involved making requests to the servers. It's really helpful to have a high level picture of how http works, and what common networking failure modes are, so you can use better abstractions in your code, expect common failures and shown nice error messages or retry requests, test your app's connections using wirshark to make sure there aren't extra round trips slowing it down, etc.