[chuck32]

I don't think its a good idea because in reality most devs are one or the other.

My theory is that most backend developers claim to be "full-stack" in order to get the job even though they really are much more focused on backend stuff. This is because its very hard to learn ruby/python/php/java for web development without learning html/css. Project Managers like having full stack jobs only because they think that can just get somebody to "do everything".

This is also probably a bit of a legacy thing, ~15 years ago the difference between backend and frontend web developement was not as well defined as it is now. A web developer would "make the page look like this with a text field there and a button here" (frontend - html/css/javascript) and then make the form on the page "save the form input to a database" (backend - a php script possibly embedded in the page).

These days development is more like "make the site be a single page app with a responsive mobile-friendly design" (frontend - angular/react/ember...) and make it process data from the user and send it off to external apis and integrate third party libraries (backend - rails/django/.net...) and have a version controlled and automatic way of deploying the code to a multiple servers behind a load balancer (dev ops - chef/puppet for example).

As with any technology, the more advanced it gets, the more need there is for practitioners to specialise.

[r34]

Exactly. I consider myself PHP developer and I would like to stick to PHP related technologies (I think it's enough there) and maybe things like Varnish etc. But currently looking for a job it's common to demand backend (PHP + some DB systems), frontend (damn Angular), server, and some other (Docker etc.). In my opinion it's not the way. At least not for me. And there was the same problem for every single company I worked with: lack of common knowledge and set of common solutions for common problems.

[zackify]

Do you use laravel, interested in moving to Asheville, NC? My company is hiring :)

[r34]

Hi zackify :) I used Laravel for a short time in one project. I'm more familiar with legacy Symfony 1 and have most experience with Yii2. But I think I'd be ok with any quite "classic" MVC :)

And sure, I'm interested - but I'm also pretty sure that it may be problamatic that I'm European ;) Nevertheless you can contact me at adam[dot]grzelec[at]gmail[dot]com.

Best, Adam

[kyoton]

Looking to take someone willing to learn both PHP and Laravel? I'm looking.