How did we get to the place where mobile devs who basically do 20% (the rest usually done by backend devs) earn 3 times more than the backend devs?

Makes me wanna flip out

because we have a bunch of hipsters with sunglasses and avocado toasts that are instagramming our careers to make them look awesome 😂

truth is there're a lot of myths and legends about FE/mobile devs, and (in my experience at least) a lot of only partially justified prejudice against us from backenders. we're full of wannabes making a lot of noise and crappy code, true (and their wage sucks tho). but finding a real fully fledged FE/mobile dev is extremely hard (way harder than BE-dev imho), hence the top tier wages for the good ones.

btw, here in west EU, given the same seniority and level of independence, wages are kind of the same BE/FE/mobile as far as i can tell, only marginally higher for DBAs and devops.

While I agree that the backend devs should not be paid less, I do not think the front end devs do any less hard work, if not more.

Taking web development as example, the devs have to keep themselves up to date with the number of frameworks and tools that are coming out almost daily or they risk being obsolete very quickly. The same cannot be said for someone working on a backend system, partly because it's a much higher risk migrating technology of a backend system so they tend to continue with the same tech for years. Front end seems to be changing every few months.

It's simply a different challenge but the hard work is not any lesser.

in short, Front end is and will always be the hardest part of building an app!

@leksyib Don't agree. I've had at least one project where the front end/app people were done in a week and the backenders were busy for weeks after designing a huge ass backend system.

Authentication, authorization, databases, designing the backend architecture from the ground up, backup methods, monitoring, intensive security tests, load balancing, you name it.

@linuxxx But that's more fun than spending hours aligning 2 buttons together

@leksyib also infinitely more satisfying when it finally works :D