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Re:What to Expect from Your Framework by arrowsmith on Sunday February 19, 2023 @09:52AM (#34858041)
> Companies are already used to hiring frontend and backend separately, it is much easier to find an expert in either than an expert in both.

I think this gets cause and effect the wrong way around. If companies stopped unnecessarily dividing their stack in two, we wouldn't have so many FE developers who don't know how to do anything on the BE and visa versa. I've worked with frontend "experts" who barely know how to query a database. Specialisation is unavoidable, but it makes no sense to me why we need to be that specialised.

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Re:What to Expect from Your Framework by incrudible on Sunday February 19, 2023 @10:57AM (#34858635)
Yes, frontend developers often barely know how to query a database, whereas backend developers often create terrible user interfaces, whereas fullstack developers are not particularly good at either. It is a tradeoff.
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