I know managers love that term, but I think I’ve come to hear it as an insult… Sorta like being called an unprofessional “jack of all trades” budget handyman that does everything mediocre…

  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml
    192·
    5 months ago

    That is a compliment. The separation of front end developer and back end developer is obsolete and untrue. Either you are a developer or not. If you work on web, then you must, now or in the future, know how web browsers work, how APIs work, how to write and consume them, etc. The browser is just an API we consume from JS. There are many others.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      8·
      5 months ago

      100% agree. Programming is programming, and these divisions are arbitrary and restrictive.

      It’d be like if someone wanted to learn a language, but refused to learn vocabulary about an important topic.

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
      3·
      5 months ago

      I agree that back end dev and front end JS are pretty much the same skillset, but HTML and CSS (especially so if you include design and UX) are very different and not something I would expect any dev to be able to pick up easily.