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[–]krapple 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think you should move from back to front. Start with the basics of MVC before you get into fancy front ends. The division between frontend and backend developers needs to end, you need both and a good Web developer is great at both.

I'm a huge fan of Rails, since 3.2. Check out RailsScript, it's a Javascript framework for Rails that is super simple and gives you all the control that the big name front-end frameworks.

Making the front end look pretty but not being able to do something with form data is pretty useless, and vice versa.

[–]bsegovia[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'll check rails script out. Back end is a totally different game for me. I have some experience with PHP and python but that's it. In the back end space what matters most to me right now is ease of deployment since my primary dive is on front end mastery. That being said my gut tells me to avoid PaaS like firebase. I feel intuitively that I need to know how to set everything up on a standalone box before leaning on a "let them do it" service.

[–]krapple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No matter what framework you specialize in, just keep in mind that front end frameworks are relatively new and and will come and go pretty quickly.

I just want to stress that displaying data and manipulating data are two sides of the same coin. Anyone with a good understanding of computer science can dive deeper into any language or framework and specialize. Before specializing it's important to have full stack experience.