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[Poll] What kind of dev are you?

What kind of dev are you?

  1. Frontend
  2. Backend
  3. Designer

Combine 1, 2, and 3 if you are any combination of the above.

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      What software and tools do you tend to reach for in each of those areas?

      1. 1

        1 and 2, mostly Rails. 3., Sketch, Affinity Designer, Omni-suite, Adobe, Acorn, Coda, Telestream, FileMaker, Amardine, etc. 😉

    1. 1

      Thanks for sharing Quasar and Figma. I had not come across either. Why Figma over something like Sketch?

      1. 1

        Figma vs Sketch

        All of the above plus I'm on Ubuntu so I can't get Photoshop or Sketch without doing some dark magic.

  1. 2

    (1,2) - Not siloed to any development technology or language, but I do enjoy frontend more.

    1. 1

      Tell me more about why you enjoy frontend more

      1. 1

        I see it as an art form. The feeling an artist gets when they unveil a painting to a crowd is the same feeling I get when I show off a website that I created.

  2. 1

    1, 2, 3, mostly 1 with a hint of 3

  3. 1

    2 - nodejs

    and now i feel the need for inbuilt poll functionality in indie hackers or embeddable poll in sites

  4. 1
    1. Bootstrap / React.js
    2. (planning to learn some Node.js)
    3. Photoshop / Illustrator (Dribble for inspo) 🧡
  5. 1

    1, 2, 3 and 4 (if you wanted to add DevOps, database etc.) 😅

  6. 1
    1. Vue.js, Saas, Bulma
    2. Laravel / Lumen / Node.js
    3. Figma
  7. 1

    2.) PHP, Python, Node, SQL, Bash
    1.) HTML,CSS, JS, Bootstrap

    3.) Nope, I'm terrible with UI/UX. I build functional, utilitarian front ends.

  8. 1

    1, 2, 3

    1. Next or React
    2. NodeJS
    3. Figma, CSS/tachyons, pen/paper for wireframing
  9. 1
    1. JavaScript / React.js
    2. Node.js
    3. Pen and paper into HTML / CSS
  10. 1

    1, 2, and 3.

    I started my career in design back in the early 2000s. I later moved to frontend, then to backend, then to DBA and later to distributed systems.

    While I never got too deep into any topic it did give me the skills set for what I finally settled on, Director of Engineering.

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    Fullstack (1+2)

  12. 1

    1, 2, and like 50% of #3 😄

    1. 1

      JavaScript is the best path towards merging #1 and #2 together fwiw

  13. 1
    1. Flash 😁 Angular
    2. .net core
    3. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
  14. 1

    1, 2 and kind of 3

  15. 1

    1 & 2

    1 : I used Vue but switched to React
    2 : NodeJS

  16. 1

    2 and 1
    2 is the first because I'm a better backend developer compared to frontend.

  17. 1

    1, 2, 3

    1. React
    2. Node.js, sometimes Laravel, deploy to GCP
    3. Jump into HTML after getting inspired from Dribbble shots.
  18. 1

    1,2 learning 3 ish

    1. React
    2. Django, AWS, FastAPI
    3. Just jump into HTML
  19. 1

    1 & 2

    1. Depending on what's needed, Ember JS, Vue JS, Stimulus JS, or plain HTML :)
    2. Laravel, Elixir Phoenix

    I also use Swift for MacOS/iOS development, and Crystal for some smaller projects including a CLI tool.

    1. 2

      Is your background originally ruby? What concretely have you used Crystal for?

      1. 1

        PHP was my first language but I discovered Ruby a few years later. Discovering Ruby really helped me level up as a developer.

        I built Snipline CLI in Crystal. I’ve written a few tutorials for Crystal as well, but most of the stuff I do with it is side projects. I’d love to use it more in an production environment.

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    I'll start.

    1 & 2 (mostly Ruby on Rails for both frontend and backend. some react and other js frameworks for frontend)

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