Ganesh R.

As the Web has grown more complex and as more becomes possible on the Internet, developers have gotten more specialized. That means that web development now means a lot of different things depending on what a web developer specializes in. Here are the three main categories: front end development (the visible parts of a website or app) back end development (the “under the hood” databases and infrastructure) full stack development (a hybrid of both). Full stack can apply to a web stack, mobile stack, or a native application stack (i.e. software programs for specific devices) To understand what each of the web developer specialties (or in the case of full stack web developers, non-specialties) are, we’ve created a guide breaking them all down, along with the skills you need to learn to become a full stack developer—if that’s your thing. Read on for more insight into what front end, back end, and full stack developers do (and why the lines between them are getting really blurry).