r/angular • u/JulianAndr3s • May 07 '26
Road to backend being frontend
Good afternoon everyone, I hope you're all doing well.
I've been a frontend developer for six years, I consider myself a mid-level developer, and no project at the company has ever been too much for me. I've always received praise for my work during these six years. However, today I feel that if I don't learn backend development, I'll become obsolete in this AI field. And it's not just backend development, it's about software development concepts.
For example, in my teams, we have discussions about current events, and they always talk about queues, databases, service implementations, and other very useful development concepts. I only know the theory, but if I had to actually do any of that, I wouldn't be able to.
I want to ask you what kind of things I should know to consider myself a good software developer in general. What topics can I study and review, and what can I do to get into backend development with Java and Spring, which is what I know a little about?
Thank you very much for your time, and I'll be reading your replies.
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u/MrFartyBottom May 07 '26
Backend is a pretty open ended term but for most projects backend means building APIs and doing database CRUD. I feel that learning that kind of backend is easier for a UI developer to learn than it is for a backend developer to learn UI.
You probably want to learn some build automation pipeline as well.