Full stack isn’t about knowing just a backend and little bit of JavaScript. Turns out a bunch of them who applied this week seem it have derived a new meaning for it!

Throwing around terms like “I am exploring MEAN” doesn’t make you sound cool unless you have some working examples that you have built with it.

full stack seems to have lost its meaning.
i was always under the belief you could build a server, do the front and back end code and at least have some working knowledge of the DBS.

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maybe i was wrong

Well I was just pissed off going through few resumes that listed the MOOC they completed as relevant experience.

That’s still education and doesn’t count as experience unless you “BUILT” something yourselves applying what you learned.

Some of them happened to be back end guys who just learned writing javascript, but never bothered to build a project to showcase what they learned, instead just claimed the MOOC as experience and called themselves full stack developers.

Full stack means:
1. You get a brief about a complex app.
2. You design, code, deliver.
That's what I do.

@deadpool88 does design belong to a full stack developer? Since Im colorblind I am unable to design. But I do frontend (html css, javascript) and backend (php, database design, server environment), What does that make me?

Seems to me you need to be able to roll out a full project, and have both succeeded many challenges as well as your own failed projects.

so you need to be able to deploy an os, possibly install the underlying hardware but these days less common.

Then know how to install any dependency of your stack at any level on a fundamental level; which includes at least a rudimentary understanding of build/compile from source to ensure you can get just the right plugins/versions that any employers dated legacy code might call for.

Ideally, you can automate that process into deployable VM'S (example vagrant) for jr developers to hit the ground running.

You need an expert understanding of the backend language your app runs in (example python / PHP) AND be able to respect/learn/apply these principals to others

You don't need to be a graphic artist but you should understand the technical hangups and strengths of the UI. (examples CSS clear fix or JS+DOM loop concatenation vs in-loop append)

People say they are Full stack when they do not specialize in anything