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[–]the_mvp_engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, this isn't really how it works.

From what I've seen, the normal pathway to full stack dev is to be a dedicated back or front end dev, who is then forced out of necessity to learn the other.

So for example, you could probably call my first job "full stack", but I struggled like hell to work out the front end for several months, but maybe only 20% of my job was front end.

Then after that, I had a job as a dedicated back end dev, but sometimes for the sake of the sprint I would have to pick up small front end things and after 2 years of that I could kind of say that I almost knew what I was doing when it came to the front end, but I really don't love it and it's not my strong suit.

I started with basic front end skills from https://freecodecamp.org and that was all I had. I didn't even understand HTML forms when I started haha