Ask HN: Has the 'Fullstack' meaning shifted to mean dev in front end frameworks?

7 points by jzer0cool 4y ago ↗ HN

Previously, I have associated Fullstack roles to mean a technologist biased to frontend & backend development as well as other sysadmin (pre-docker era) and understanding of various things like networking, testing, etc. Someone capable as a tech-lead.

Today, I see a lot of fullstack frameworks popping up and wonder how you'll associate a role labeled fullstack?

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drakonka 4y ago ↗

I also associate "full-stack" as someone who can work on all aspects of the tech stack - back-end, front-end, deployment (testing imo is unrelated. A front-end engineer should be writing tests for their front-end code, that doesn't make them full-stack; same with a back-end engineer). To me the term is unrelated to any front-end framework, but I'd be curious to see others' thoughts as well.

tra3 4y ago ↗

Agreed. Full stack to me means the same thing, a generalist web developer that can work either on the backend or the front end or more generally web services or UI portion of the application.

jpcapdevila 4y ago ↗

For me full stack means someone that can deliver a complete product (ui, server side business logic, database, deployment) on its own.