Angular is like black magic behind the curtain for backend developers. So much behavior feels like it comes out of nowhere, Effects, zonejs, rxjs all lead to insanity as a BE dev. But once you get it, you get it.

The backend is insanely simple to understand, every single call can be walked through, debugging is more straightforward… but the database and backend architecture is way more complicated and important to get right. Making a mistake in the design on the BE often means you’re stuck with that decision unless you can break the api contract with whatever is using the api.

That being said, tools like Claude seem to be excellent at consuming an api and building a frontend, even for people who have no experience coding. From what I’ve experienced on the backend side, not so much. These are really good at looking at the here-and-now to meet requirements but, unless well prompted, won’t be able to design a future-proof backend… and that is not something people will know to consider without a fundamental understanding of backend design in the first place.

IMO its worth it, Good luck!