According to the “Developer survey 2018” of StackOverflow, a majority of developers consider themselves “full-stack developers”, an intrinsically senior profile, very demanding in knowledge and with high demand in the sector.
We speak of a developer capable of designing and implementing projects, both on the server side and on the client side, which means knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each technology and staying updated as they evolve and/or new ones appear.
With the technological evolution of the Web stack, staying updated and productive in the front and back-end is increasingly complicated, to the point of questioning whether meeting those expectations is more a myth than a reality.
The origin of the “Full-stack”
When this nomenclature began to be used for this profile, in the early 2000s, Web technologies were clearly less complex and the options to choose from were less numerous:
- There were three or four major application servers, all in charge of maintaining the state of the application, applying the business rules and generating the UI of the clients. The languages and environments could vary, but the client-server model, the development patterns and the techniques used were relatively similar.
