ELIMINATING FEARS ON FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT

There’s always been a lot of confusion surrounding the domain of Full stack development. In reality, there are a lot of people who confuse full-stack developers with senior developers. The motto of this blog is to familiarize you with the peculiar features of full-stack development, and also illuminate the benefits that come along.

Stack and Popular Stacks

Before we understand what ‘full-stack’ means, let’s know what the word ‘stack’ means. “A technology stack, also known as solution stack, technology infrastructure or a data ecosystem is a list of all the technology services used to build and run one single application”. Usually, a stack consists of one or more programming languages, libraries, servers, databases, frameworks, and developer tools. Now we know what a stack means and what it is made of, so now let’s look at some popular stacks in use.

• LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • LEMP: Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP
  • MERN: MongoDB, Express, ReactJS, and Node.js
  • MEAN: MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js
  • Ruby on Rails: Ruby, SQLite, Rails
  • Django stack:  Django, Python, and MySQL as Database

JavaScript is also a part of these stacks.

Why Full Stack Development?

A Full stack developer gets to work and create unique codes for multiple technologies. As a full-stack developer can work on both frontend as well as backend, they promise versatility. Also, they can use different techniques for specific functions. Most of the web applications are developed within a tight budget, and Full-stack developers help to stay within that budget. Troubleshooting becomes faster. Mastering both front end development technologies as well as back end development technologies displays that you are determined and hard-working.

Full-stack developers with relation to Software Engineers

Full-stack web development is a subset of software engineering. Full-stack developers are the ones who steer the front end as well as back end development. They handle design, database, clients, and system engineering, whereas Software Engineers handle the planning of their projects and building solutions for the same. Full-stack developers are expected to be skilled in all the steps of application development. They can oversee the client-side development and server-side development. This means they can write APIs, program databases, as well as create the design of a website. Software Engineers develop applications that work on a PC. All the software applications installed on a desktop are the products of software engineers.        

Getting Started

Start small if you’re just getting started with web development. Learn HTML first, then take up CSS. The latest versions of all languages are recommended. After completing the basics, you can go ahead with JavaScript; you can also throw in PHP. These are programming you’ll require for both front-ends as well as back-end after programming languages come frameworks. As frameworks can be a little complex, tackle them at last. You can learn all the technologies mentioned here via YouTube, via websites as well as online courses.

– Drishti