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All the full-stack devs I've worked with so far were just back-end developers who write terrible front-end code.
I've worked with my fair share that were front end devs that didn't understand the backend, too
Isn't that basically the entire use case for Node.js?
Not sure if you're suggesting that it's a problem of knowing the language or sarcastically saying that Node.js allows for developers to not know what's happening.
On the case that you're thinking it's a knowledge of the language issue, that's not what I'm getting at. Typically, what I see with full stack developers is an over reliance on frameworks to do the heavy lifting to the detriment is their skill sets. Often not knowing how to optimize DB queries or trouble shoot performance problems. This works fine in purely CRUD use cases, but falls apart when scaling using more complex patterns starts to occur. I've spoken with Sr and staff full stack developers that truly believe the only thing you need to do in order to scale a web app is add nodes.
Hey, if it consoles you, three quarters of our pure back-end C# developers are as you describe, too.
See, you should have worked with me - I write terrible back-end code too! You'd have gained a whole new appreciation for the people who can do at least that.
This feels like a personal attack