[anandr2013]

Hm...I guess.

But don't you think getting a basic idea of all the different things happening on the backend (by doing them once since that seems to be the only way to really know something) would help when I focus on specific area again.

Things move so quickly that having a detailed understanding of different moving parts would seem to help. It's kind of how I grew into doing interactive stuff from just HTML/CSS too.

[codr4life]

Having a clue about how it all fits together is definitely a good idea, always was. But this is more about pushing the software developer profession further into mediocre generalist land, where those pesky computer magicians are reduced to convenient corporate building blocks.