Are you aware of Full-Stack Web Developer? (Step-by-Step Guide)
Anik Acharjee
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I believe, we heard this “Full Stack” term several times, either on the net or from friends. So, I think it's high time we should know what is all about Full Stack Developer and how someone can tag themselves as “Full Stack Developer”.?
“Full Stack” means when different technologies are integrated together to develop or build a product. The product can be software, a full-fledged website, and many more. A full-stack developer mainly deals with:-?
He/She needs to be a “master of masters” who can deal with all the necessary technologies, used to build a product. He/She should be well-versed with the advance and new technologies that are emerging in the IT industry.
A full-stack web developer is someone who can deal with front-end as well as back-end technologies to create a user-friendly website. So now, you all might be thinking about what is these “front-end” and “back-end” technologies. Let’s understand them in detail along with the usage of the “Database” concept.
Whatever we can visualize or see all the different web pages, can be termed as “Front-end”. The details that are entered by the end-users in any kind of form, i.e., Registration Form, User-details form, etc, all come under the Front-end. We as customers or end-users are able to see the Front-end details. A layman will explore the contents displayed in the front-end part and is completely not interested in the coding part of the same.?
A web developer or a full-stack web developer is someone who will be dealing with front-end web technologies like -?
When we think of creating a website or collection of web pages, we start to learn basic things like HTML, CSS, and JS. HTML is the base of the front end which helps to build the structure of the website or web application. In HTML, we use different “tags” to build the initial structure of the website. On top of that, we can use CSS to make our website creative and attractive. To have a user-interaction website, we can use JavaScript (JS) web-based programming language. Apart from these three (3) web-based programming languages, we can also use JQuery, AJAX, and Bootstrap.?
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We can use different front-end frameworks like Angular, Vue JS, React JS, and many more to make our website much more secure and safe to use.
2. Back-end:- In the back-end, we mainly deal with different data validation, cross-checking the data with the database, and so on. By using different back-end technologies we can secure our websites and make our website free from hacking. All the details that are entered in any Registration form are basically passed to the back-end part and then try to process the data accordingly. Data entered are cross-checked and aligned properly as per the coding, written by using different technologies. These technologies can be Node JS, Express JS, and many more.?
A web developer can deal with the following back end technologies -?
A full-stack web developer who is dealing with JavaScript-based back-end frameworks might be working with Node JS, Express JS, and so on. Nowadays, people are using NodeJS along with Express JS framework to build the back-end part of a full-fledged website. If he/she is dealing with PHP-based frameworks then he/she might be using Laravel or CakePHP frameworks. We can use the Django framework (a Python framework) too to build the back-end.
3. Database:- We can image the database as a container for storing some data. The data can be customer’s details, employee’s details, and many more. A company can have ample data and to utilize those data wisely as per the requirement, we need to secure it properly. It is advisable to store such critical and important data in an empty space or container. And here comes the need for a Database. We can store all our necessary and important data in the database. A web developer can use different databases as per his/her requirements -?
Mainly, when we are dealing with frameworks like React JS, Node JS, and Express JS, we love to use the MongoDB database only. A MERN stack developer can create an awesome website by using such tools or technologies. In ancient times, developers used to use databases like MySQL, etc. But with rapid development in Web Industry, people started adopting different NoSQL databases like MongoDB, IBM Db2, and so on. The main intention is to store the data and use it whenever it is needed as per the scenario. But the web developers find it very difficult to use such traditional databases. Due to this, they started shifting to adequate and advanced databases which are compatible with the modern frameworks.
To become a full-stack developer, we need to upgrade the skills in “Front-end”, “Back-end” and “Database”. To tag or call someone a Full Stack Developer or Full Stack Web Developer, one should learn the skills and technologies of Front-end, Back-end, and Database concepts. Once a project is created and is ready to use by the customers or clients, we need to deploy that project. We can do that on different platforms like GitHub, Heroku, and many more.