No separation between backend and front end is hard. I’m not good at front end, and we don’t have a designer. I’m miles better on backend though and other team members are more talented than me for front end design.
Yeah I agree, but we don't have a designer so what am I to do? I think I'm good at the frontend engineering as in breaking down component structure, passing data around etc. but I can't make something look good enough to meet my own standards.
You would probably be decent at frontend if you did it at least 20% of the time. Obviously you can't be an expert at everything, but there is enormous value in being able to work on most things end to end instead of having to handoff every time.
I do it about 40% of the time - I'm just straight up not good at it, which is okay. I can get by, but it would be better for the company for somebody else to be doing it. Specialization can be good!
