Do I need JavaScript?

Question

To be a python back end web developer do I need to learn JavaScript also?

Answer 1

No. If you get the job offer and it is purely backend development using Python, no JavaScript knowledge should be required.

Congratulations if you get that job offer, though. I never saw such a purely backend position and would be surprised if you could get an offer without minimal knowledge of JavaScript. Usually a back end position is a more senior position and most web developers were at some point full stack developers and therefore had a little experience with JavaScript. I don't mean that backend developers have experience using JavaScript-heavy front end tools like ReactJS, Angular, or Vue but most would have used event listeners, simple DOM manipulation, and jQuery. Knowing how to use fetch or $.ajax to send an HTTP request to a server would be useful if you needed to do just a little adjustment to front end code to hit your backend API's or make sense of a piece of front end code for the job. Some minimal skill can go a long way in helping you communicate requirements with a front end developer.

Answer 2

Not really. Focus on Django or Flask, and MySQL or MongoDB.

Answer 3

Josh Greig, Gordon thanks brother.

Answer 4

You will need some intermediate JavaScript level because the front-end could be developed in JavaScript, so how you gonna develop its backend if you couldn't read JavaScript or jQuery?

Answer 5

Its depends on particular projects.