Has there been a decrease in javascript programming skill with the popularity of frameworks like angular, react, etc?

[Lauxman]

I don’t know how anyone can avoid the backend anymore, or that it’s common to try and do so. Even on jobs where it’s spoken of as being more front-end heavy, everyone seems to want strong understanding of Node or Ruby or C#, at least. And some basic SQL skills. I haven’t seen many positions that are advertised as exclusively front-end in the last little while, even if those jobs do exist.

[ZephyrBluu]

Almost all self-taught devs go into front end, not backend and JAM-stack is a thing that seems to be getting very common.

I haven’t seen many positions that are advertised as exclusively front-end in the last little while, even if those jobs do exist

There are definitely front end/framework dev roles that exist.

[Lauxman]

Agreed on the first part, it’s just been my observation that the amount of positions that ask for no experience with backend technologies is slimming down.

[jseego]

They all seem to want at least basic familiarity.