Are we now Full-Stack Web Developers?

As you may know, for our end of semester senior project we worked in groups of two in charge of developing a web application that had some sort of functionality. When we were first introduced to this we didn’t know whether to feel scared, nervous, excited or all of the above. What is HTML, CSS, angular, boostrap, etc.? So many things were thrown at us but in the end we made it. We learned all of it and no the question is.. are we full-stack devs? Maybe Eric An can answer that question in his article, ‘What is a full-stack web developer?’

The article begins with a big red T shaped image. The T-shaped model is a concept that describes the abilities/characteristics of an individual where a person has many generalized skills with a specialization in few. The full-stack web developer supposedly knows many technologies but specializes in few which is front-end development and back-end development.

Front-End web development is the presentation of the website which includes HTML and CSS and sometimes JavaScript; pretty much everything that the user sees when clicking a link. The goal is for users to provide a platform for users to interact with. Some other skills may be UE/UI design. For our project we learned the basics of HTML and CSS and I also learned how to use bootstrap to make things much simpler. Front-end development was a success!

Onto the back-end web development.. The creation of data collection processes haunts us to this day. We redefined the definition of struggle when it came to the back-end part of this project. Back-end development is associated with the front-end where as a server is being created to communicate with that the user is trying to do on the front end.

The definition of a Full-stack web developer is an individual who is in charge of performing both front-end and back-end so that all of the technologies put together makes up a website. After reading this article, although we are not experts in front-end/back-end development we could be considered full-stack developers!

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