There are dozens of programs and online resources that are helping people becoming a full stack developer.
Some online resources can be found on Lynda, Coursera, Udacity and Thinkful etc. Apart from this online programs, there is also a career path that is training people the updated skills to become a Full Stack/MEAN Stack developer.
Getting to the point, I personally believe that learning the technologies that is required by the IT industry today will help you become a Full Stack/MEAN Stack developer tomorrow.
The defined guide:
A Full Stack/MEAN Stack developer is one who is able to work on both front-end and back-end technologies. Front-end basically relates to what the user is able to see and interact with, and the back-end is the part related to the one the handles the logic, database interactions, user authentication and server configuration etc.
Full stack doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to master everything required to work in a front-end or the back-end, but it just means that you are able to work on both sides.
MEAN Stack just simply means being an expertise in the technology stack MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js) making him a full stack developer.
So, if you want to be a Full Stack developer in 2018 and land a good job in a product based company, below are the list of things you need to start learning today:
Front-end languages:
- HTML/CSS
If you look at most of the resources, whether online or offline, teaching you how to be a web developer will always start with HTML and CSS because they are the building blocks of the web. Simply put, HTML allows you to add content to a website and CSS is what allows you to style your content.
- Angular.js
Where is Angular.js is a structural framework for dynamic web apps. It lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly. Angular.js’s data binding and dependency injection eliminate much of the code you would otherwise have to write.
- JavaScript
The JavaScript language keeps growing very popular every year and new libraries, frameworks, and tools are constantly being released. Accorsing to Stack Overflow 2016 Developer Survey, JavaScript is the most popular language in both Full-Stack, Front-end, and Back-end Development. JavaScript is the only language that runs natively in the browser. It can double up as a server-side language as well (like Node.js).
Back-end languages:
Once you feel that you’ve gotten a good grasp on HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Angular.js, you’ll want to move on to a back-end language that will handle things like database operations, user authentication, and application logic.
Below are the list of languages ranked by Job Search | Indeed stick to it and learn the best languages today.
- Node.js
This is a great option because Node.js is itself just a JavaScript environment which means you don’t need to learn a new language. This is a big reason why a lot of online programs and bootcamps choose to teach Node.js. The most popular framework you’d most likely learn to aid you in developing web applications is Express.
- Ruby
Some popular frameworks for developing in Ruby are Rails and Sinatra.
- Python
Some popular frameworks for developing in Python are Django and Flask.
The technology stack - MEAN
- MongoDB
MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas.
- Express.js
Express.js, or simply Express, is a web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs.
- Angular.js
AngularJS is a JavaScript-based open-source front-end web application framework mainly maintained by Google and by a community of individuals and corporations to address many of the challenges encountered in developing single-page applications.
- Node.js - (refer to the above point on Node.js)
Databases and web storage
When learning to build web applications, at some point you’ll probably want to store data somewhere and then access it later. Learn the topics related to database and storage - SQL, NOSQL e.g. MongoDB, Know how to connect a database with a back-end language (Node.js + MongoDB).
HTTP & REST
HTTP allows client to communicate with servers.
Web Application Architecture
Once you already have the grasp of everything, there is more to it and this is the point where one has to create a web application. For this you’ll need to know how to structure your code, how to separate your files, where to host your large media files, how to structure the data in your database, where to perform certain computational tasks (client-side vs server-side), and etc.
The best way you can actually learn about web application is by working on one, how to do it? You can always use GitHub and try working on projects with people, try looking at their projects and the codes of all the popular projects on GitHub and learn as much as you can.
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