Whilst my world is on hiatus for the foreseeable, I've decided to learn enough web development to ship a few product ideas I've had on the back burner, for a mix of fun, profit and self development.
Plan A was to just learn front-end development (HTML, CSS, JS, framework, UI/UX) and use a baas like Firebase or AWS for the back-end.
Now, I'm a little concerned that relying on front-end and baas will bottleneck me in some way that isn't obvious to me as a newbie.
Given the above, how valuable would a back-end education be (node/express or ruby on rails), even if I end up going the baas route?
Notes:
My product ideas are run of the mill Reddit for dogs, news aggregator, to-do list app type stuff.
I'll be following one of the Odin Project's curriculums. They offer both front-end and full stack learning tracks.
-Front end https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/3
-Full stack Javascript https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/2
-Full stack Ruby on Rails https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/1
Plan A was to just learn front-end development (HTML, CSS, JS, framework, UI/UX) and use a baas like Firebase or AWS for the back-end.
Now, I'm a little concerned that relying on front-end and baas will bottleneck me in some way that isn't obvious to me as a newbie.
Given the above, how valuable would a back-end education be (node/express or ruby on rails), even if I end up going the baas route?
Notes: My product ideas are run of the mill Reddit for dogs, news aggregator, to-do list app type stuff.
I'll be following one of the Odin Project's curriculums. They offer both front-end and full stack learning tracks.
-Front end https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/3
-Full stack Javascript https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/2
-Full stack Ruby on Rails https://www.theodinproject.com/tracks/1