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Funny, most people I've talked to said that the backend code usually is better structured and written, while the frontend (web and games) was a hot mess
My experience has often been that Business mostly cares about what they and their users can directly interact with (The FE) and don't really care about spending time and effort on the BE
The security and permission layers for the API:
Management: "We're only going to hire 'full stack' devs from now on."
Also Management: "Why is this page taking 37 seconds to load?"
I'm now a full-stack engineer. Instead of being ok at any layer, I don't know what I'm doing in the UI, the Service, the Backend, the Database, the Cloud Infrastructure, and the CI/CD.
But, if anything breaks, I almost always can figure out where it broke very quickly. A fix is always unpleasant though.
Yes, but that also means backend developers only have to worry about the code. Where I work, they always align on best practices across the company. While frontend is a mess of apps and frankensteined components.