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Discussion on: Why you should become a Full-Stack Developer

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David Cantrell • Edited

You mean "someone who can drive photoshop and Javascript (both on the front end and the backend), isn't going to do much harm when given the root password"? That's not a full stack developer. A full stack developer could also debug the Javascript interpreter, tell you how to optimise your ORM's crappy queries, patch the kernel, and configure the routers.

But people who are skilled in the back-end stuff aren't going to waste their time with the latest fashionable hotness in rounded corners and Reactular frameworks. They're too busy keeping the internet running and having a life to learn some new temporary fad every year.

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Ricardo Otano

To sum up: I prefer backend as you don't have situations as:

DEV - I'm focusing on fixing data inconsistencies so we don't have unexpected flaws in the project
CLIENT/PO - I know but the loading bar... could it be a little less blue?

That's what makes me run from frontend, hahaha!