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Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by ibkayee(f): 1:47pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
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Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Pochettino(f): 1:47pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
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Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by cixak95211: 1:48pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
JohnCloud: I have never said backend was harder than frontend, only a newbie will say that. I am only trying to clear the assumptions of "backend is easier" Also, no matter your project, even if the frontend will just show random pictures of cats uploaded by a guest, zero logins, you shouldnt put that logic there. Worst case scenario, spin up a cloud function in seconds and allow the function do the upload and retrieval of cat pictures. The frontend should be used for what is is strictly, user interface and experience. Game over! 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Csami(m): 1:48pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
You guys have started with your blasphemy again. Till I go dig up another survey that says otherwise. Nigerians just jump into conclusion about something they have little or no idea about. |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by 99thEnemy(m): 1:48pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
chingle5:Oya go and build a dynamic website using frontend only... Something that I can even use prebuilt templates to do. Mtcheeew. . Don't go and disgrace yourself in front of webdevelopers, nobody will take you seriously again. Did you just start taking tutorials at W3schools? |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by cixak95211: 1:50pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
KaluwisxPRO: Obviously, you are still stuck in the Sagem myx-5 era and have not written a line of code in your life. Please SCRAM!!! |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by airsaylongcome: 1:51pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
Mac2016: Not so versatile with Prota structure per se. But I understand the challenge you have. What version of Prota Structure do you have installed? |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by stupidmod2: 1:53pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
EzzyCarter:lol |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nosagold(m): 1:57pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
I do both and I must say, the front end is trickier. Only a rookie will think front end is just css. The front end is basically the entire face of the application and the link between the user and the server! The backend is purely logical, but the front end is a combination of logic and skill Note: I develop web and mobile applications |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Enceladus(m): 1:59pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
Both are damn hard on real enterprise applications. I don't know what is with us Nigerians and useless bias. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by airsaylongcome: 2:02pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
CSTRR: I've read three of your posts on this topic and you have made very salient intelligent points. There's always the argument of who is more important between FE and BE devs. I think they are both similarly important albeit in different aspects. On this comment of yours, customers can live without "fancy" front end. SMS Bank Alert notifications come in very bland SMS text. No colours or anything fancy. Whereas if the backend erroneously calculated the customers balance there would be war. A lot of development has become lazy pushing a lot of work to the clients computers. Try and deploy NoScript plug-in for Chrome and Firefox and see how that fancy FE becomes crippled 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Enceladus(m): 2:04pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
nosagold: You are very right bro. I recently worked on the frontend for one enterprise project (> 57 countries) and that opened my eyes. The requirement of the UI alone means you can't use any framework and we had to build a lot from scratch targeting different browsers implementations. Is it about crazy async logic, or stale data monitoring. Only naïve devs will say frontend is just HTML, CSS and JS. 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nosagold(m): 2:06pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
airsaylongcome: How about things like data validation, api calls, data structure for full applications before you go into presentation. The days when front end was about background color are long gone 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Karleb(m): 2:06pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
CSTRR: If you indeed know back end, you'd know backend itself is architecture unless you are still writing spaghetti codes. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by techstack: 2:07pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
for those built blogs try build a secured payment system Frontend is just to display data naa |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Csami(m): 2:10pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
post=98220234: Look at this one. Stating what he has no idea about. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nairalanduser23: 2:11pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
Backend is not harder than frontend, frontend is not harder than backend. They both have their challenges which can be solved if you put in the effort. A lot of persons here think front end is just basic HTML, CSS and JS. I laugh. Obviously there is a high chance you haven't worked on a serious or large frontend application. Frontend of 10 years ago is not the same frontend of today. Go and look at current job adverts for front end roles from local and foreign companies, you will know how far. Frontend pays well too, depending on your skill level. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nosagold(m): 2:11pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
techstack: Lol you probably have never done front end my friend 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Yankee101: 2:13pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
It's not harder bro Backend can contain a million lines of codes but only one page front end web page In multi layer software architecture you build database, VPCs, subnets, security protocols, SSH rules, node.js code commits for dynamic Architectures, application layer etc, then we hand it over to you to develop a web layer for customers to interact with all our work under the hood It's like saying the car painter is better than the car maker 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nosagold(m): 2:13pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
Enceladus: You are talking from experience bro! I can tell 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by airsaylongcome: 2:16pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
nosagold: Again I'd say it's lazy programming that encourages those. A lot.of clients today have relatively powerful machines (mobiles or desktops) so dev try to push processing to the client side. Imagine a very resource lean situation like USSD or SMS. All processing is done at the backend 2 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Csami(m): 2:18pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
BigDawsNet: See this one too. Saying nonsense with confidence. Do you know how many website out there built without back-end |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by nosagold(m): 2:21pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
airsaylongcome: You definitely have never done front end, my friend |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by alcuin(m): 2:36pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
The op is obviously a newbie or hasn't worked on a real project before. Take an app like Uber, I'm not sure the op can even phantom the technologies powering Uber. Well, enjoy your cruise. |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by alcuin(m): 2:41pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
BigDawsNet: Frontends are for human users. But users of a service aren't all humans. Most times machines communicate which each other to deliver services. The is the the basis of microservice architecture. Take Netflix, for instance, they have hundreds of machines talking to each and delivering content. Backend engineers do not always write services for human users. Most times machine to machine communication happens. 8 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by tushd(m): 2:43pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
post=98220309:oga make we hear word.. africnainsm is a thing if you don't know.. Keep holding everything foreign like Gold.. Let Africans be Africans |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Bashox: 2:45pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
chingle5:Lmao you are very wrong bro |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by sicase6359: 2:51pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
@OP I can tell you for free that some frontend developers earn better than some backend developers. Backend development however is more challenging and embodies a certain level of complexity hence the higher pay. If you check stackoverflow statistics or GitHub statistics every year, you'd appreciate how much technology stack changes for backend development unlike frontend development that revolves around JS and few other libraries. As a backend developer, you'd need to master so many technology stacks while adding to your cap design patterns, database design, network management and complex algorithms (for complex projects). If you have ever written micro services or you have even worked on cryptographic modules or probably ever messed with image processing codebases, or have ever had to interact with an OS kernel and maybe even optimize some legacy code or worked on some very complex AI algorithm or probably written some codes to manage a network infrastructure (and any of those crazy devops shit we do), you may hopefully understand why backend development should be well paid. In as much as frontend development is somewhat underrated, please discard the notion that back-end development is simply writing a PHP or Python CRUD application because it is not. In fact next time you use your favorite IDE or import react-DOM package with npm remember a backend dev helped to make your job easier. 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by binary01: 2:53pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
depends on the project, front end development this days are complex and even becoming harder than backend |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by ToyinDipo(m): 2:53pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
ibkayee:Ibkayee My own view Backend development is more technical and often involves a lot more technology know how than front-end development. I work with both, but mainly backend. In front-end, once you choose a particular tech, e.g Angular, Vue, Reactjs... all other components you will be working with is sass/CSS, html/html 5, JavaScript/typescript. But in backend, there are a lot of core components and different technologies e.g security (oauth2, simple jwt, session cookies...), database (...), Caching (...), messaging (message brokers), session passivation, if you are also implementing with workflow engine e.g jbpm. In summary, there is a lot involved in backend development. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by Techplug: 3:03pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
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Re: Why Are Backend Developers Paid More Than Frontend Developers? by iamjavadem(m): 3:05pm On Jan 19, 2021 |
Do you know what goes into fetching and saving data especially when you are building a distributed app that will existing in different regions and need to sync data. Have u heard of systems design? If you have, you will not be saying this. careersome: 2 Likes |
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