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You can be a Full Stack Engineer if you want to hack together an application that works. However, if you really want to do the interesting work, in both FE and
by imheretolearn 6y ago
You can be a Full Stack Engineer if you want to hack together an application that works. However, if you really want to do the interesting work, in both FE and BE, you need to choose one domain and dive deeper. There is a difference between building the next Kafka and the next React and it would be challenging if not impossible for one person to be an expert in both domains.
- nlh 6y agoI beg to differ with your assertion that "building the next Kafka and the next React" is the interesting work. I, and I'm sure many, would prefer to build (hack?) an end-to-end application that actually solves a business problem vs. spend all my time building infrastructure tools. I guess my point is: to each his or her own. Everyone finds different engineering tasks interesting.
- imheretolearn 6y agoI stand corrected. I agree to each his/her own.
- ownagefool 6y agoI'd be surprised if none of the folks who built Kafka have built a decent JavaScript framework.
- imheretolearn 6y agoI'm not saying it's impossible I'm just saying it seems improbable to have a significant contribution to both projects. Also, there are other considerations, for example some people may just like working on the FE and some on BE.