Not Enjoying Frontend Development — What Path Should I Take Instead?

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I’ve been learning frontend development for a while now, but honestly, I’m not enjoying it. It feels too close to graphic design for my taste. Things like choosing the right colors, shadows, font sizes, or just positioning an items inside a div can take me hours — and I don’t find that fulfilling.

I’m more interested in programming that’s focused on logic, problem-solving, and building the actual functionality of things, rather than tweaking how things look on a screen.

So, I’m wondering: what career paths in web or software development should I explore if I prefer real programming over layout and design work?

I want to focus on coding, logic, architecture, data handling — not visuals or styling.

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front end is both of those things, maybe you have not yet done projects complex enough

full stack or back end have much more problem solving tho

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I feel you because I never liked frontend, learned just enough what I needed for my personal projects but my day job is all about backend. I found it not only more interesting but also less crazy than frontend. Core stuff to learn would be algorithms, data structures, databases, design patterns, choose a language and framework/technologies that you like (look what’s popular in your area)

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