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Front end, back end or full stack.. where to go?

Viktoria Bors-Pajuste on September 18, 2022

I am a codenewbie like some of us here. Currently enrolled to a full stack developer bootcamp, which soon to end (in a few months). Therefore with ...
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Matej Bunček 🤔

As somebody who was working as fullstack for quite a few years let me give you an advice. FullStack in this year means taking care of legacy codebase. Something like fullstack is bacisally non-existent with todays technology. You've got plenty of SaaS services which will do arguably better job, at managing your infrastructure than a dedicated person and current trend, is that companies will lean towards them, as they're also cheaper than a really skilled fullstack developer. If an idea of doing multiple things at once sound good to you, there are roles in companies like advocates or some devEx roles, which will provide you somewhat fullstack like experience, but fullstack role with a 2015 meaning of "do everything by yourself" doesn't really exists now, as we can outsource most of the infra things to dedicated companies.

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Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

I really appreciate your comment! It is important to know for a newbie, what a full stack developer actually does these days. :)

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Matej Bunček 🤔

Yeah I mean dont get me wrong its still really interesting position with a lot of ownership but it might not be something what a lot of newcomers might expect.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

I am a backend developer because I never managed to make things look nice in general, and to understand CSS in particular :P

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Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

I know the feeling 😅 I am not a designer, but in general I can follow a design if it is in front of me. My own designs are like from the 80-90s though 😀

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Well viktoria-pajuste.hu/ looks fine to me
but again I'm color blind :)

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Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

Thanks 😊 but it could be always fancier and shinier 😀

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ventolin • Edited

Great questions. I'm not an expert but you might consider joining a smaller company that can let you take part in different parts of a project or even forming your own company with other developers. I know that this may be harder but just wanted to put out there another option that may be less obvious.

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ventolin

Also you could start taking some small fullstack projects on places like Upwork or similar. People offer their fullstack skills there.

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Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

Thank for the ideas and yes I am also hoping to get to a company where it is allowed to try something else as well :) I could not imagine to have my own company though, at least not yet.

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lnwlucus

very good!

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Viktoria Bors-Pajuste

Thanks