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Full-Stack Web Development, according to the Stack Overflow 2016 Developer Survey, is the most popular developer occupation today. Its no wonder then that there are dozens of online and in-person programs that will help people become Full-Stack Developers and then even assist these new developers land high-paying programming jobs.

Some popular online programs can be found on Lynda, Udacity, Coursera, Thinkful, General Assembly, and so much more. Aside from these online programs, there are also in-person coding bootcamps that are teaching people the skills required to become web developers.

As it mentioned above, the discussion about full stack developer is actually the debate on the depth and breadth of skills. Especially at the OSCON conference, a Facebook engineer said they only hired a full stack developer. This topic came as a result of a heated discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of being a full stack developer.


Back-end developers generally handle the server and the data. Their job is to build an application and also to design/ implement its interaction with the server and the database. They manipulate data and also work with public and private APIs. A good back-end developer should have a sound knowledge of Linux/ Windows as a development and deployment system; he/ she should also have insights on different version control systems such as GIT/ SVN.

These were the specialized position of developers. But as the requirements continued to become more complicated and ambitious, some kickass people started to build frameworks and helper libraries.JQuery is the most common example, it made JavaScript development in the browser significantly easier, other examples are AngularJs, Knockout, Backbone, EmberJs. There were similar shifts in back-end technologies, such as Zend, Symfony, CakePHP forPHP and CodeIgnitor for Ruby on Railsand PHP both. Thus, today browsers have became more capable, and the frameworks are becoming excessively powerful.


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Front-end technologies are becoming more and more important in todays project and product development. In addition to product features, the user experience is also one of the criteria to test the success of a product. All that depends on the implementation of the front-end technology, soyou need to master some basic front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and further study the front-end frameworks or third-party libraries such as JQuery, LESS, SASS, AngularJS, or REACT.