42 Examples of Full Stack Development

John Spacey, January 12, 2023

Full stack indicates that an individual can develop end-to-end services including front-end and back-end code. This is powerful because this allows a single individual to completely understand an application. Full stack developers resemble technology generalists whereby they are comfortable designing, implementing and operating a broad range of technologies. The following are common examples of full stack knowledge areas.

Architectural Standards	Authorization & Authentication
Back-end Development	Building / Configuring Servers
Building Prototypes	Caching
Cloud Platforms / Serverless Technologies	Code Reviews
Customer Experience / UI Design	Data Migration
Data Models	Database Development
Deployment	Design for Scalability, Resilience and Efficiency
DevOps	Developing Automated Tests
Edge Computing	Evaluating Technologies
Front-end Development	HTML, CSS and Javascript
Incident & Problem Management	Information Security
JSON	Javascript Frameworks / Libraries
Leading Development Teams	Mentoring Developers
Microservices	Networking
Production Support	RESTful APIs
SQL / NoSQL	Service Delivery Processes
Session Management	Software Architecture
Software Design	Software Development Methodologies
Stakeholder Relationships - working directly with business units, operations ...	System / Application Testing
System Administration	System Integration
Systems Analysis	Web Development

The scope of full stack varies by organization whereby full stack developers in small companies may have very broad responsibilities that extend into areas such as user experience design or systems architecture. In a larger organization, full stack may simply refer to developers who perform both front-end and back-end development.