A few months ago I was talking to a recruiter at a job fair and I mentioned I was interested in doing back-end and was familiar with Node. He said “oh so front-end” very confidently and kind of dismissed me. Was he just ignorant or is it common for people in the industry to treat Node.js as a mostly front-end technology? He wasn’t the only person who said this before.At my last internship, I worked with a team that was responsible for specific services on the companies website. They were officially called a front-end team. We didn’t interact with any data base (at least not directly), we used backend services for that. We also used Node.js since the team saw it appropriate for the new micro-service architecture they were adopting. Now that I want to intern at other places as a back-end engineer, because my team was officially a front-end team, I’m kind of “pigeon-holed” into the front-end, even though that’s not something I enjoy much. I loved working with Node and the things that seemed more “back-endy”.Is it common for the separation between front-end and back-end to be this “blurred”?TLDR; I always thought Node was a backend tool. However, it seems some people have a different opinion. Also, at my last internship I worked with a “front-end” team that used Node.js (no, not like Browserify), we actually ran a server, except no direct interaction with database, just HTTP requests (express) to our back-end services.
Submitted November 12, 2018 at 03:19PM by rancid_baleada
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