Top 5 Easy Yet Essential Tips To Become A Full Stack Developer
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Ankit Patel - December 06, 2019
- 5 min read
Considering to master in the art of web development? Did you also hear that becoming a full stack developer is the way to go? Yes? Great then. You know, as a full stack developer, you will be equipped with both, front-end as well as back-end skills. But, the main question still remains, how to become a full stack developer? Continue reading to grow as a development expert in this field and chalk out success like never before.
A quick search for full stack development will give you access to a list of acronyms such as HTML, CSS, JSS, MySQL, PHP, etc. These are just a few of the languages that a full stack developer needs to have knowledge of.
It is therefore a good idea that as a development professional who is embarking on this journey of full stack development to know these areas to create an end-solution that allows user interaction to take place in a relatively seamless and streamlined manner.
Full-stack development has become one of the most sought-after tech stacks to learn about in the current scenario. This is something the United States Bureau of Labour Statistics also corroborated. It stated that there is a probability of close to 8,53,000 open job roles for the post of a full-stack developer by 2024.
Through these numbers, it becomes clear indeed that channeling your expertise in this field will certainly prove fruitful and meaningful for your career.
Want to know what is full stack development and how a person can become one? Then, you must go through this blog as everything has been clearly explained and covered in this guide.
◉ What is Full Stack Development?
Full stack development takes into consideration both the front-end as well as the back-end to build web applications. This is to ensure that prototype creation takes place at a really rapid pace, followed by ensuring that the time for team communication gets reduced seamlessly and most importantly gives assistance in the debugging of the applications as well as websites respectively.
◉ Reasons Why It is Worth Being a Full-Stack Developer
- Helps you to successfully get an edge over all the techniques that are crucial during the development project.
- Assists in accelerating the pace of prototype creation.
- Streamlines the way assistance gets delivered to team members.
- Reduces the overall project cost.
- Time for team communication gets decreased.
- Smoothens the switch between front-end and back-end development based on the different requirements.
- Different aspects of the latest and upcoming technologies become easy to understand.
◉ How to Become a Full Stack Developer?
1. Learn Essential Programming Languages & Web Technologies
Frontend Development
Frontend development deals with those parts that a user can view and interact with. You must be proficient in front-end programming languages like JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. Development languages are often accompanied by a perfect third-party library and development framework Hence, you must also be familiar with third-party libraries such as ReactJS, Angular, LESS, SASS, jQuery, etc. so that you can easily understand the application development processes.
Backend Development
The front-end can be easily seen by the users, while on the other hand, the back-end as a mystical part remains unseen. Back-end handles the user authentication, application logic, and database operations. After mastering frontend technologies, you must have perfect knowledge of at least one of the backend coding languages. Learning only one language will be sufficient but you must be proficient with that. Hence, you must master some basic back-end technologies like Java, PHP, Python, NodeJs, Ruby, etc.
Web Technologies
Learning about Frontend as well as Backend development languages is the first step that a full stack developer follows. The next step is to learn about all the essential web technologies through which they can move one step ahead towards their goal.
A significant advancement can be noticed in web technologies. It is very essential for every developer, whether he is a full stack developer or any other developer, to be familiar with the latest technologies so that they can perform their development tasks efficiently.
Web technologies include web browsers, frameworks, servers, and protocols. Knowing how to handle each technology will take the full stack developer a long way.
2. Gain Expertise In Databases
Without data, an application can manage nothing. A database is used for storing and accessing the data and this is the reason a database is an essential part of every application. Hence, you need to be familiar with the NoSQL and Relational databases and have a basic understanding that in which project and which database will fit the best. Additionally, extra knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, etc, will be helpful while developing an application. Familiarity with caching options like Varnish, Memcached, and Redis would also be useful.
3. Know Every Technology But Be A Master of One
The technology list is huge. As you keep learning, you will explore that there are too many things to learn and you cannot master them at all. There are many programmers who have failed as they tried to become masters of every technology. Don’t make this mistake! What you should do here is pick among the technologies that are popular among customers and with which you are most comfortable and master that and have basic knowledge on the rest. With experience, you will be comfortable with all the technologies.
4. Taking An Online Technology Course
Even though you are an expert in your field and have prepared properly, you should have the zeal to gain knowledge of new things for remaining updated. New technologies emerge frequently and not a single person knows everything. For staying abreast of all these changes and to enhance your skills you need to take virtual or online courses. Organizations like The Odin Project, Codeacademy, and Treehouse are offering online technology courses.
Stay away from too expensive courses that guarantee to teach a whole lot of things within a few classes. As your goal is to acquire knowledge on theory and get some practical exposure quickly, you must opt for those courses that fit the standard like:
- Having an excellent mentoring background.
- Flexible schedule.
- Assign coding projects for sharpening skills.
- Group based or individual tutoring sessions for clarifying doubts.
5. Get Practical Experience
Acquiring more knowledge of web technologies and learning frameworks and languages are not just the things required for becoming a full stack developer. Also, only academic knowledge won’t help you get a job.
Theoretical knowledge you can obtain by going through online materials, but for understanding how to use that knowledge properly, you need to have practical exposure. When you work with a team, you get to know the tactics and skills implemented to develop a website and application, and also this will further enhance your coding capabilities. By working with a professional team you can get practical exposure and learn about many things like:
- The right procedure for structuring code.
- Means through which files can be separated.
- Environment for hosting bulky media files.
- The appropriate data structures and codes to use.
- Location of every computational task.
Wrapping Up
Within a few months, you cannot become a full stack developer, it will take time. Only learning about various front-end as well as backend technologies doesn’t mean that you can start your career as a full stack developer. You need to understand in detail those two areas and learn how to link those areas smoothly and easily. Hence, you must have a lot of patience and have to employ your hard work to reach there. Also, you must have a zeal to learn new things that comes your way.
Ankit Patel is a Director of Sales & Marketing at XongoLab Technologies LLP and PeppyOcean, A leading mobile app development companies. In his free time, He likes to write articles about technology, marketing, business, web, and mobile. His articles featured on YourStory, E27, Datafloq, JaxEnter, TechTarget, eLearningAdobe, DesignWebKit, InstantShift, Business Magazine, SimpleProgrammer, and many more.
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