After 9 months of React frontend, I finally started backend.
JS backend felt obvious at first.
Then I overthought everything for a month.
Everywhere online:
“MERN is oversaturated”
“Python is better”
“Go is the future”…
So I switched to Python backend. Big mistake.
Not because Python is bad. I actually liked some of it. But as a backend beginner, changing ecosystems just confused me and slowed me down.
I spent more time picking the “perfect” stack than building things.
Switched back to JS backend. Felt natural again because of React.
Lesson: constantly changing stacks hurts more than picking the “wrong” one when u have less time.
Still want to learn Python someday. But for now, happy to finally start my backend journey.
After grinding frontend for 9 months :)
Can’t be more happy.
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