I blame the environment for the "less hype" when it comes to back-end development.
On the front-end you really have 0 choice and are stuck with HTML/CSS/JS. Everything that makes up the hype is more or less stuff thrown on-top of those three things that ultimately performs the exact same job at the end of the day.
At the same time, all the "choices" are close enough together due to being tied to the same underlying technologies that it can create a single "front-end" community. The fight between React/Angular/Vue exists because there is enough in common to argue about. The same can't be said for every back-end language/framework choice.
That isn't to say the back-end doesn't have its own communities. I've heard the Rails community is great. (Dev.to is built on it if I remember correctly ;D) There are also communities for technologies outside of web-dev, like Python for educational purposes, DIY, and beginners. I don't think any are nearly as large as any web-dev community, but that's just because most people have access to the web.
Seems pretty accurate to me, thanks for your opinion!
I'm pretty sure backend have big communities, Rails one, Go or Python are quite active around the internet, but I don't get the same feeling I see on the other side. Maybe because I haven't explored that much yet...
that's a really good point about everything being similar enough. Back-end devs are usually splintered off into different language camps before frameworks become a discussion.
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I blame the environment for the "less hype" when it comes to back-end development.
On the front-end you really have 0 choice and are stuck with HTML/CSS/JS. Everything that makes up the hype is more or less stuff thrown on-top of those three things that ultimately performs the exact same job at the end of the day.
At the same time, all the "choices" are close enough together due to being tied to the same underlying technologies that it can create a single "front-end" community. The fight between React/Angular/Vue exists because there is enough in common to argue about. The same can't be said for every back-end language/framework choice.
That isn't to say the back-end doesn't have its own communities. I've heard the Rails community is great. (Dev.to is built on it if I remember correctly ;D) There are also communities for technologies outside of web-dev, like Python for educational purposes, DIY, and beginners. I don't think any are nearly as large as any web-dev community, but that's just because most people have access to the web.
Seems pretty accurate to me, thanks for your opinion!
I'm pretty sure backend have big communities, Rails one, Go or Python are quite active around the internet, but I don't get the same feeling I see on the other side. Maybe because I haven't explored that much yet...
that's a really good point about everything being similar enough. Back-end devs are usually splintered off into different language camps before frameworks become a discussion.