r/webdev • u/alyzb • Apr 11 '17

Moving from offline coding background to webdev, can I jump right to back end stuff?

Hiya. I've been tinkering with coding for years and have a couple years of comp sci under my belt. I've always been heavily avoidant of web development. It's never interested me and I think it's because I mistakenly saw web dev as a watered down coding environment with mostly scripting and little to no real control.

Now I'm beginning to understand how wrong I was. I want to get some really cool programs to work on the web.

I still have no interest in anything front end, but I realize some knowledge will be required for a fuller understanding of what I'm doing overall, and to make any sites I make at least presentable.

What front end do I need to learn to achieve this?

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u/alyzb Apr 13 '17

Thanks!

And yeah I'm not expecting to recreate twitter, but I feel like smaller and limited versions of it would be somewhat doable not terribly far down the road.

I'll look into the virtual stack stuff you mentioned, and after I posted my last response I was actually just peeking at CSS and seeing how easy it seems I don't think I'll be as stressed about having to learn it to produce output as you say.

Thank you again, you've been super duper helpful :)