[vkjv]

Came to say the same. I've seen good developers that are working on front-end, back-end, and full-stack.

The key is that they are a good developer. Where they focus usually has more to do with the organizational structure and its values than the engineer. If they are the best in their area, if you move them, they quickly become the best in that area.

Besides when back-end means you work on a web API and frontend means you work on a web UI, is there really that much of a difference? It's not like we are talking about completely different technologies.

[Vendan]

Generally web ui and web api are completely different techs. Even when you are talking node.js on your backend(which is only 1 out of many languages used), you still are likely dealing with databases and all kinds of things that aren't relevant in 99% of frontend cases. And when I'm doing backend dev work, which is most of what I do, I never deal with DOM and such. There are HUGE differences.

[ptr]

> Besides when back-end means you work on a web API and frontend means you work on a web UI, is there really that much of a difference?

It depends on what's behind the web API, doesn't it? Maybe there's a stock exchange back there.