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I moved from being a frontend guy to full stack. What I learned is that being a front or back end guy is an artificial constraint. If you know frontend JS, wor
by MoSattler 5y ago
I moved from being a frontend guy to full stack.
What I learned is that being a front or back end guy is an artificial constraint. If you know frontend JS, working with NodeJS is not that hard. If you know NodeJS, django is doable.
In the end, it's all about solving problems, not tools.
If you are a decent engineer, you will able to solve problems in almost any environment. It might not be the best or most elegant solution in the beginning, but that comes with time.
A good first step for a front end guy to branch out is to learn how to write the APIs yourself. Then you have your foot in the door.
- 0xcoffee 5y agoIn my opinion the major difference is dealing with Databases. I'm a 'backend' only engineer, although I play with svelte/vue in my free time. I feel confident in my ability to solve almost any issue, except a database one. To the point where I don't accept jobs where I have to manage a db.