Ask HN: How can a BE/infra developer handle the FE side of personal projects? | Hacker News

I'm in the same boat as you: backend and infra are my areas of focus. I spent a lot of time digging into the Javascript ecosystem trying to find a framework that I actually enjoyed using. There just weren't any. I've come to the conclusion that I just really don't enjoy working with javascript (and related tools, languages, etc) at all. I've had a lot of fun with Flutter, though. Here's a quick overview if you're not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHhRhPV--G0 It's easy to get started, there are numerous learning resources out there (I really liked https://appbrewery.com/p/flutter-development-bootcamp-with-d... ), and it's opinionated without being opaque. You can install the SDK and have a hello world app up and running in like 5-10 minutes (including tight VS Code integration, hot reload, etc -- all of that stuff works out of the box). You still have to think about responsive design and state management and stuff like that, but it's not too difficult to reason through it even if you don't have any prior frontend experience. It even comes with a library of pre-styled components (Material Design) that you can just _use_ without having to make decisions. People are going to complain about a ton of things about Flutter, but I encourage you to give it a go (if for no other reason than it's a good example of opinionated, powerful tooling that you can just _use_ without having to fiddle with it).