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Curiosity Fullstack: What do you prefer? Dev back or front first?

Anderson Marlon on October 23, 2020

My boss last week ask it to me, he thinking that know how dev, but know just a theory. In your vision, developing back-end is better because when y...
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Andrew Baisden

I prefer to work on the back-end first because you might as well have your API and database set up. So that when you work on the front-end the connection is seamless and you don't have to create fake data to test because you have a working API from the start.

However there are caveats to this like in circumstances when your client or boss wants to see a quick mockup with some fake data just to get a feel for the app. In that case I would do the front-end first with mock data and then set up the back-end afterwards.

So it depends who you are working for and what the needs may be. If its a personal project I always start with the back-end before I work on the front-end.

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Anderson Marlon

I understand and looks better.

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Stephen Solka

It depends on my mood.

Backend: Systems design can feel like playing with legos. Plus pretty datadog graphs.

Frontend: Shiny. Product tends to appreciate your delivers more because they can see them.