HACKER Q&A
📣 wanobi

How do you study back end without writing/touching front end code?


What are your methods of learning back-end development without ever touching or creating a front-end counterpart of a project.

Here are some questions that may set a guideline for the discussion: - What are your methods of writing and testing certain APIs or algorithms (e.g. rate limiters)? - How do you benchmark/stress-test your code? - Resources on how you can improve your back-end development skills?

Feel free to ignore the questions and answer in your own way.

  👤 schwartzworld Accepted Answer ✓
Learning enough html and JS to consume an API or post a form isn't that hard. You can develop an API using a client like postman, but making an effort to consume that API will make you a better dev. Besides, frontend is awesome once you stop being afraid if it.
👤 yellow_lead
1. Use tools like curl/postman/etc to query your APIs

2. Make an ugly frontend, just for demo purposes

3. Write tests to call your APIs

Not everything necessarily needs a frontend. Imagine you're creating a SaaS API, there usually aren't Frontends except for maybe an API testing tool

👤 faangiq
Don’t “study” it. Build something.