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Do other devs tend to agree with the idea of full stack being a myth? "A developer who can code the front-end, back-end, API, and database isn't as absurd as it
by xhrpost 9y ago
Do other devs tend to agree with the idea of full stack being a myth?
"A developer who can code the front-end, back-end, API, and database isn't as absurd as it once was (excluding visual design, interaction design, and CSS). Still mythical in my opinion, but not as uncommon as it once was."
I've been FS for most of my career, mostly the result of working in smaller dev teams where you had to own product from top to bottom. I'm willing to admit not being an expert in all the areas and perhaps that's the catch. I also have to disagree with the timing idea, if anything, I feel I was more an expert in the past (despite JS being my top skill) before the exponential increase in JS tooling and framework complexity hit the scene. So, 10+ years ago, I was writing FS application. VBS on the back-end in ASP classic, build out the schema in T-SQL(Sybase), build out our own psuedo-mvc in VBS to server JSON for XHR requests from the client that we then wrote with the help of PrototypeJS. I knew ES3 like the back of my hand and often had to contribute to SQL queries a couple hundred lines long. VBS wasn't that hard (just annoying) and ASP classic pretty straight forward. Now even though JS is everywhere, things are much more config and library dependent and the shift has been a challenge for me.
- JamesBarney 9y agoI'm with you, what do you call someone who can build and ship the back and front end of a working application, if not a full stack developer? Because its pretty obvious a bunch of these people exist,
- ggregoire 9y agoMost small/middle companies hire people with a CS degree who can create a data model, some APIs in any language and then build a JS web app calling those APIs. Well, at least that’s how companies work in France. Not sure what’s mythical about these profiles, they are the most commons from my experience.