Full Stack Web Developer

A full stack web developer is a person who can develop both client and server software. In addition to mastering HTML and CSS, he/she also knows how to:

Program a browser (like using JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, or Vue)

Program a server (like using PHP, ASP, Python, or Node)

Program a database (like using SQL, SQLite, or MongoDB)

Client Software(Front End)
HTML CSS Bootstrap JavaScript ES5
HTML DOM JSON XML jQuery Angular
React Backbone.js Ember.js Redux Storybook
GraphQL Meteor.js Grunt Gulp

Server Software (Back End)
PHP ASP C++ C# Java
Python Node.js Express.js Ruby REST
GO SQL MongoDB Firebase.com Sass
Less Parse.com PaaS (Azure and Heroku)

Popular Stacks

LAMP stack: JavaScript - Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP
LEMP stack: JavaScript - Linux - Nginx - MySQL - PHP
MEAN stack: JavaScript - MongoDB - Express - AngularJS - Node.js
Django stack: JavaScript - Python - Django - MySQL
Ruby on Rails: JavaScript - Ruby - SQLite - Rails

Advantages

The advantage of being a full stack web developer is: You can master all the techniques involved in a development project You can make a prototype very rapidly You can provide help to all the team members You can reduce the cost of the project You can reduce the time used for team communication You can switch between front and back end development based on requirements You can better understand all aspects of new and upcoming technologies

Disadvantages

The solution chosen can be wrong for the project The solution chosen can be dependent on developer skills The solution can generate a key person risk Being a full stack developer is increasingly complex