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I have 3.5 YOE and don`t know whether specializing in either of them would be beneficial for my career.
Define "beneficial for your career." Do you mean maximizing earning potential? Working on interesting tasks? Having a wide pool of job opportunities available?
So what I really meant was more money and interesting job
It’s always easier to learn and excel in a subject that you prefer. Don’t force yourself into a specialty you don’t like because you think it will help your career more. Doing work you don’t enjoy every day is not good for your career.
As for specialties, both front-end and back-end are too broad of categories. There’s a huge difference between a back-end developer writing simple CRUD apps to serve 1 request per second and a back-end developer writing complex distributed, high-availability applications that serve huge numbers of requests per second. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you “everything is just a CRUD app”.
Pick the domain you like most and then work toward the companies doing the most interesting work in that domain.
Which do you enjoy more? It’s always easier to learn and excel in a subject that you prefer. Don’t force yourself into a specialty you don’t like because you think it will help your career more. Doing work you don’t enjoy every day is not good for your career. As for specialties, both front-end and back-end are too broad of categories. There’s a huge difference between a back-end developer writing simple CRUD apps to…
I've been mainly working with really simple CRUD apps. 1 server apps kind of things.
That's why I'm also afraid that I won'be fit and good enough to work on those big complex apps.
Which do you enjoy more? It’s always easier to learn and excel in a subject that you prefer. Don’t force yourself into a specialty you don’t like because you think it will help your career more. Doing work you don’t enjoy every day is not good for your career. As for specialties, both front-end and back-end are too broad of categories. There’s a huge difference between a back-end developer writing simple CRUD apps to…
I think I enjoy backend work more, however in my 3 years of working I didn't really experience those complex distributed apps to work on. I've been mainly working with really simple CRUD apps. 1 server apps kind of things. That's why I'm also afraid that I won'be fit and good enough to work on those big complex apps.
I can technically do about everything on the web, I'm just really bad at front-end, and really good at back-end, which is where I do most of my work. Am I "full stack"?
How good to you have to be in...well, everything, to call yourself "full stack"?