I don’t think there’s much overlap between the two, besides general programming best practices. In my experience, backend development is often simpler because

I don’t think there’s much overlap between the two, besides general programming best practices. In my experience, backend development is often simpler because you can move any state out of your own code into dedicated external components, like databases and queues. With frontend code, you have to manage state; there’s nowhere else for it to go.