I’m thinking about starting to learn back-end, but I’m a bit indecisive/insecure on what should i do. Now i have knowledge in html css javascript tailwind and studying react rn. Can someone give me some direction on what to learn? also, is It a good idea start back end now ?
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Hey @Leleo1337
Great to hear about your learning journey! Sounds like you’re building a solid foundation. Starting with frontend is a smart move. These days, frontend apps often dip into backend territory anyway, especially with how easy it is to connect to APIs and cloud databases.
Once you’re comfortable building simple frontend apps, that’s usually a good point to start exploring backend. Especially if your projects start needing more data handling, security, or background tasks. Things like server-side authentication, talking securely to a database, scheduling tasks with cron jobs, or integrating payment systems are all handled on the backend.
A lot of your current projects on GitHub could be expanded with backend logic. For example, adding a check to make sure only certain users can add tasks to a to-do list. That would mean setting up account registration, verifying user permissions, and storing tasks in a proper database instead of local storage. While you technically can do all of that in the frontend, it’s not recommended, anything in the browser can be inspected or changed, so it’s not secure. Sensitive logic and data access really need to live on the backend.
If those kinds of features sound interesting to you, then I would say it’s a great time to start learning backend. I personally leaned into backend early on too. My frontend stack was just HTML, CSS, JS, and a bit of Angular. But I enjoyed backend more, so I stuck with it. That said, it’s definitely worth getting React under your belt since it’s super in demand right now.
We’ve got backend content coming soon (Node.js and Next.js) so by time you’ve learnt React fundamentals we should have backend things for you to learn.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much! I will keep continuing my React studies/projects until the back-end content comes. I really like the didactics that Scrimba provides. I learned a lot from the React course
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