Frontend or JavaScript?

Question

Career in IT

Good day, dear friends. At the moment I'm studying layout (HTML+CSS+JS basics) and I'm faced with a dilemma: Go to Frontend or become a *pure* JavaScript developer . The specificity of my situation is that although I devote (and am ready to devote further) a lot of time to studying this area, I don’t see it as my main job, but as a part-time job. In this regard, of course, freelancing will be my main platform .
So, I have a few questions:
What tasks does a pure (with knowledge of frameworks, etc.) JavaScript specialist perform ? (preferably as detailed as possible)
What is the difference between JavaScript'er and Front?
What does a JavaScript developer need to learn?
Is it possible for him to make money freelancing?
Will it be cost effective compared to Frontend?
Does a JavaScript developer need knowledge of layout?
I apologize for my incompetence and I'm eager to see detailed answers)
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

At the moment I am studying layout (HTML + CSS + JS basics) and I am faced with a dilemma:

study layout further (HTML + CSS + JS basics) and do not multiply unnecessary questions in your head.

Answer 2

Well, a Javascript developer who is completely unaware of other front-end technologies is a very strange phenomenon, IMHO.
It seems to me that without layout knowledge (very deep ones are far from always needed with good js), it will be difficult for you to get a job somewhere, simply because I don’t think that in our country, for example, there are a large number of companies that have strictly NodeJS on the backend, and at the same time, developers are strictly divided into front-end / back-end.
Rather, in the case of a node on the backend, the company will have full stacks, and you will not fit this description without the knowledge and desire to work with layout.
And if you don’t have such a desire, then js is not your choice, it’s better to go to other areas, people are also needed there, and sometimes they can pay much more money :)
Answers to questions:
1. Performs the tasks of building some interfaces, or fixing bugs in them. Layout is needed.
2. Google roadmaps. The most important thing is the Javascript language, and some kind of framework.
3. Maybe.
4. I don't think your range of tasks will be very small.
5. Definitely needed.
There is only one thing I don't understand:
Is that what you imagine? If there is not enough money for the main job, then why not switch to full-time coding, and if there is enough, then why do you need it? And if it's not about money, and the main work is more for the soul - maybe it's better to spend your energy so that the main work starts to generate income that exceeds IT salaries?
It seems to me that in this whole coding field it is very difficult to be a non-full-time specialist all the time, and there will be an attempt to sit on two chairs.
Forgive me if I'm minding my own business.

Answer 3

On the web, you need to know 5 js in any case, and the front will differ from the back in the knowledge of frameworks, in general, IMHO, it’s better to be a full stack, this will not be excessive dispersion.