Polyglot, autodidact. OSS author and contributor. Addicted to writing code, seeking my next 'fix'. Love communicating with an audience whose eyes don't glaze over when I get to the 'good parts'.
You built out the FrontEnd, BackEnd, Database, and Hosting
Could you do it again? Do you understand all the parts well enough? For example, if you were asked to use a different platform, or host on a different provider?
Those are the expectations of a FullStack Dev
The individual technologies don't matter as much as understanding the whole.
Keeping up with a constantly shifting landscape across all of these different concerns over time is hard. Everything you know today may be obsolete in 5 years. That's what makes FullStack Devs exceptional.
There's nothing wrong with specializing in one concern. Specialists still make good money.
FullStack requires an intrinsic motivation to want to know how everything works. The upside being; you have all of the technical ability to work independently, start a consultancy, launch a startup. The downside being; the cost, it's damn hard to keep up.
Honestly Evan, it was intriguing and exciting all along. You know if i could make more money doing both the front and the back but like you mentioned, if really i want such responsibilities? I'm not sure because it it huge and i burned out along the line.
But I'm trying to make some buck for now, i enjoyed it and yes i can do it all over again and again, i think even better. Thanks alot Evan for this, it was very helpful.
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You built out the FrontEnd, BackEnd, Database, and Hosting
Could you do it again? Do you understand all the parts well enough? For example, if you were asked to use a different platform, or host on a different provider?
Those are the expectations of a FullStack Dev
The individual technologies don't matter as much as understanding the whole.
Keeping up with a constantly shifting landscape across all of these different concerns over time is hard. Everything you know today may be obsolete in 5 years. That's what makes FullStack Devs exceptional.
There's nothing wrong with specializing in one concern. Specialists still make good money.
FullStack requires an intrinsic motivation to want to know how everything works. The upside being; you have all of the technical ability to work independently, start a consultancy, launch a startup. The downside being; the cost, it's damn hard to keep up.
Do you want that much responsibility?
Honestly Evan, it was intriguing and exciting all along. You know if i could make more money doing both the front and the back but like you mentioned, if really i want such responsibilities? I'm not sure because it it huge and i burned out along the line.
But I'm trying to make some buck for now, i enjoyed it and yes i can do it all over again and again, i think even better. Thanks alot Evan for this, it was very helpful.