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

7 pointsjzer0cool3 comments

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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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.

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.

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

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