Learning to think like a Backend Developer

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I’ve spent a two years working as a frontend developer and always thought making the jump to learn more backend would be straight forward. Wrong. I’ve had to throw my “security blanket” — a reliance on creating UI — out the window.

I was assigned an exercise to create a new Elixir project (no Phoenix Live, no databases). I spent a lot of time banging my head against the wall struggling to…