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I think the crossover between frontend and backend is less effective than you imagine. Generally a backend dev writes horrible frontend code and viceversa. A v

I think the crossover between frontend and backend is less effective than you imagine. Generally a backend dev writes horrible frontend code and viceversa. A very senior backend person will probably know many things about ops and frontend, but probably not about design. A very senior frontend person will probably know a lot about design, UX and have a good enough experience with backend, but is probably not going to implement good ops practices.

bcheung 8y ago
In the React / Node world I haven't seen this to be true. I can imagine it being more so if the languages and tooling are different like in the case if someone was doing Java backend Angular frontend.
- greenhatman 8y ago
  Same with Vue. I used to be more back-end, but frameworks like Vue and React make front-end feel more like traditional back-end, and are a joy to work with. I'd separate the client side scripting and styling / layouts, actually. While JS and JS frameworks are fun and enjoyable to work with, and I can architect the JS stuff well to make maintainable code bases, CSS is still a mess for me. Though getting better at that as well. Flex-box and CSS Grid changes the game completely from using floats to do layouts.