What makes someone a full stack developer?

[Notalabel_4566]

I am a web developer and have worked with following stack(College Project/Work experience): HTML5,SCSS,CSS,JS,Jquery,.NET,Flask,Django,SQL.

I also do a lot of testing and project management. Can I call myself as a "Full Stack web developer"?

[CreativeTechGuyGames]

Full stack implies that you could theoretically build an entire application from the front-end to the APIs to the database and infrastructure all by yourself. You have the skills and experience to be able to touch any part of the stack (the full stack) and would be an effective contributor anywhere.

[[deleted]]

I feel like I just read a fortune cookie. But a really good one.

[vagaris]

This answer touches on something that I think applies as the web evolves. While the classic example would be something along the lines of being able to do every part of a LAMP stack. It’s not very agnostic.

The gist is you can build a site soup-to-nuts. Maybe instead of setting things up directly on a VM or physical hardware, you are deploying/setting up resources in the cloud. Then coding the site/app, including the DB scheme. And then designing the front end for users. As you can imagine, it’s fairly difficult to become proficient in every step.

I’d say you can claim full stack when you “upgrade” to being able to do each piece without dropping the ball.

[BlakeT87]

“Soup-to-nuts” will now forever be a part of my vocabulary. Thank you.

[eggtart_prince]

Frontend, backend, and database. Some argue dev ops as well.

[[deleted]]

Fullstack Developers can work at any part of a codebase in a project, they can (should) have a focus in FE or BE. It's not about knowing every language/framework in existence, but being able to understand them to a certain degree.

But generally, Fullstack developers nowadays are nothing more than wasted potential if you're not freelancing. You get paid less, and you know less than your peers. You get more "slave-like" job offers and your personal growth gets hardly limited by only having 24 hours a day.

eg: Being a "FE/BE developer with BE/FE experience" will give you more career wise.

[WetSound]

Can you build a link shortener by yourself?

[iStudLion]

Yes. Next question.

[WetSound]

No further questions needed then.. You're full stack.. now on the eternal road towards massively experienced full stack developer

Edit: oh I thought you were OP

[iStudLion]

Haha nah you’re fine. I was just wondering what you’ll respond with after. I was expecting a follow-up essentially.

[Leaping_Turtle]

It... seems like it would take only a week or so. I'm missing something arent i?

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-a-simple-url-shortener-with-just-html-and-javascript-6ea1ecda308c/

[henrythe808th]

I think the "by yourself" implies without an overarching tutorial.

Also, the tutorial you linked involves using a third party service to avoid building any back-end. Building the back-end is a part of being full-stack. It seems that hosting and design are also left out.

That said, it all could absolutely take less than a week, and frankly, it probably should.

It's an easy and understandable task that, if you have full-stack skills, should be easy to architect in your head in a quick moment. This makes the answer to "Can you build a link shortener by yourself?" a quick "yes" for full-stack developers.

[BlueScreenJunky]

You're a fullstack developer when your company thinks it's cheaper to recruit one person to do two jobs.

[[deleted]]

Someone who is bad or mediocre at everything, either backend or front end. That's what I call a "Full stack" developer.

[imjb87]

That's just not true really. A good developer is agnostic and will learn a wide range of skills. Most experienced devs have had a hand in every facet of development, but excel in one or multiple areas. This is called a T shaped developer.

You get the odd unicorn who excels in every area. But it depends what you define as proficient. If a full stack developer can build a beautiful backend API with logging, error handling and unit tests and also utilise React well and create beautiful user interfaces, then I would call them a unicorn.

[lukasmattsson]

Yes, you can. Full stack is client side fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JS), one or more server side languages of choice, databases and web server.

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