A lot of real world front end work involves talking to multiple systems and APIs, and most of the FE devs I've worked with don't really care about ORMs or rende

A lot of real world front end work involves talking to multiple systems and APIs, and most of the FE devs I've worked with don't really care about ORMs or rendering data via server side templates. Being comfortable talking to APIs usually means you don't care too much about how that is implemented.