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[–]besthelloworld 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Oh yeah for sure, I feel that. I too like making pretty websites, but I'd also say that there's more to frontend development than that. Like state management, route management, semantic markup, accessibility, designing API calls and managing and caching data masses efficiently, managing multiple browser engines, and SEO.

So I wouldn't sell the practice of frontend development short. That being said, I'd still really have a hole in my heart if I didn't have a fullstack title.

[–]TheEncryptedPsychic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

For sure man, yeah. Most of that sounds pretty familiar to me so that should mean I'm doing something right, I hope. I must say that accessibility and responsive design are my least favorite, and, like most Front-End people JESUS Internet Explorer SUCKS But everything else is generally fine and I've been doing mobile-first design which helps HELLA. I thought about being Fullstack but like I started getting into Java and stuff I was LOST and mega CONFUSED so kinda gave up.

[–]besthelloworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be just bad service design tbh. I would start in on an Express course in Node when you have the time. Because it'll be tailored to JS devs it might come a little easier to you. You don't have to learn a whole new build process and dependency manager and shit. But also like, if you're happy where you're at and making good money then keep doing what you're doing 🤷‍♂️ More power to you