Is it worth starting a project from the frontend?

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Hello), it's
time to look for a job already, as a junior (or maybe even Junior +)). Now, when hiring, it is only possible to show unfinished experimental projects and mini test tasks from failed interviews. I want to make a project in which I could show my + learned most necessary knowledge (React, Mobx, Typescript, Next.js).

The main thing is to show work with api, I'm sure that this will give a fat plus in the next interviews. Unfortunately, no one wrote in any article like "How to become a front-end developer" that this is an important topic and there will be a lot of questions.

A few questions:

1. Is it worth starting a project from the frontend? I can write something simple in Nest.js to write to MongoDB,
but while the project is only in my head, a little in Figma and even on a piece of paper I tweeted a little scheme, it's hard to start from the back. Moreover, I’m not there at all like ale.

2. What is better to use: REST or GraphQL, which is more in demand, so to speak?

3. If you start a project from the frontend, then how can I first request data if they are not recorded anywhere. For REST, I can use json-server and describe fake responses there, but maybe there is a similar client for this. Or even for GraphQL. Like Postman, can I use it for this?

4. What is the best way to organize styles: css-modules, scss, emotion, styled-component? Again, which is more in demand, which is used more often, because campaigns usually do not describe such trifles in their stack, but if I use the same as they do, then I think there are more chances.

Thank you very much in advance for the answers, maybe you will help me not to die of hunger in the hostel

Answer 1

For a junior, it doesn’t matter if it will be REST or GraphQL, everything is in demand, just think, GraphQL is such a sickly piece of knowledge, even among middles, not on all projects, GraphQL is asked at interviews.
For a junior, you need to know the basics of CSS well, this is important, but how you fasten them to react is all the same.