[logicalmonster]

I think being a great frontend developer is the hardest thing on the web.

You're dealing with crazy environments, far faster changing best practices, libraries, frameworks, and tooling, increasingly demanding audiences, and any imperfections on whatever you deliver are extremely noticeable.

If a backend developer does a database query that's a little inefficient, odds are nobody is going to even notice that.

If a frontend developer does some animation that's a little choppy and with bad timing, they might have the entire company management crawling up their ass the next day.

[gremlinsinc]

try being full stack. where you need to know both, albeit most full stack devs I know are really backend devs who know how to apply a UI to their backend in varying degrees of quality and complexity.

[catchnear4321]

the further away from the product you look, the less the company as a whole will manage to care.

but these things have a bad habit of forming loop-like structures, turning back in on themselves.