I’ve always been of the more creative/artistic type growing up. That being said I mostly focused in on backend and system level programming classes and side projects throughout college and loved it. I am starting as a developer at a tech company and will be placed on a front end team working with vue, typescript, and sass among other technologies. It is of my observations that front end development has become more “hardcore” in recent years due to the proliferation of front end frameworks and libraries, and thus more respected (as opposed to the more finicky aspects of pre modern frameworks dev) I want to ask blind this: will pursuing a front end career put me at a disadvantage? Do devs make it to upper management out of these roles? is the pay less long term? Is the field more subject to ageism due to faster churn of technologies? I am genuinely interested in both and have no issues choosing one or the other (or full stack) but am more curious as to what the actualities of the industry are like. Disclaimer: I think front end and back end are both interesting and face unique issues, I am simply echoing what I have gathered online and from other devs. TC: 105k
Front end can be very successful - I know some who are not located in a high COL area they make over $200k TC some of whom have made it to upper management. I would say pursue front end if that’s what you are passionate about and to make you closer to that unicorn candidate get enough experience on backend to be familiar with common technologies and design patterns.
Frontend is becoming more popular/ harder due to the fact that backend developers are not able to do it. Source: Backend developer who has always told managers and stakeholders frontend is easy when in fact it has become ridiculously hard
Hardcore FE is not about writing sass or working in Vue. It's more like writing compilers for various templating and language features, dealing with hard performance problems by understanding how rendering pipelines work and optimizing milliseconds, ... It is rewarding though, I make 600k+ as one.
Yes I second this. Those rendering pipelines stuff have huge impact and is not the kind of grunge work frontend is usually associated with.
Thanks for the insight, this was the kind of information I was looking for
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