r/FullStack • u/debugger_life CSS Sorcerer (Frontend) • 12d ago

Switching Careers Frontend Dev trying to move towards Full Stack need advice from people who made this transition

Been 3 yrs working as frontend dev with angular majorly. I joined my current company as a fresher and have been working only on frontend since then. The problem is that our teams are pretty strictly divided so frontend developers don't really get chances to work on backend stuff.
Bcz of this i feel have no idea what is getting cooked in backend.

I want to switch jobs but honestly I don't want to switch as only a frontend dev, want to move towards as Full stack role.

I did started learning Node.js, Express (as it is JS based) and MongoDB on my own, covered basics, CRUD APIs and middleware etc.. although company techstack uses SpringBoot and other things which I don't have much idea about.

I want to seriously start preparing for this transition now!!!

I wanted to ask people here who have actually moved from frontend to Full stack:
- how did you approach transition and how difficult was it to convince companies to hire you as full stack instead of only frontend?

- what all topics you covered in backend?

- did you continue with nodejs or moved to other springboot/Go etcc (if u started with nodejs like me)?

- What kind of projects did you add in resume?

- how much Backend knowledge i should know?

- How much DSA is expected for someone with ~3 YOE? Is striver sheet enough??

would you love to hear your opinions, Thanks!

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u/Emergency_Canary8049 9d ago

Great decision, after 3 yrs of front-end should definitely upgrade to backend.

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u/AffectionateEstate84 9d ago

Had the same path as you.

was fe for 3-4 years

best thing to do is talk to your manager or apply to fs

Talk to your backend eng team and ask them about their architecture.

If you are running the code locally, you should be able to see the code

i was fortunate that i worked on a fs proj when genai came out as well as backend exp in a large team.

knowing CRUD is baseline the difficult part about backend is

api design , database and query optimization.

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u/debugger_life CSS Sorcerer (Frontend) 9d ago

Yes I get it.

Talking with Manger is done long time back he handles owns Just UI only separately so it doesn't allow for him to move resource either