Hello everyone! Since the popularity of AngularJS has actually grown, it has become more and more required to have dedicated AngularJS developers in your team. What kind of work can such a developer accomplish? What are the full stack AngularJS developer jobs? What is a full stack developer? What skills are required to become AngularJS full stack developer? Let’s find out.
Who is a full stack developer?
A full stack developer is someone who is mostly responsible for the end to end development of a complete product.
Let’s assume that we are developing a social networking web application which has a feature to display the details of its users such as a profile picture and some personal information.
The first thing that you can see in this application is the website itself which can also be called as the front-end part of your application. You can basically develop the front-end part with technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but the front-end part is only responsible for showing the data in a user-friendly way. The actual rate of the users are not stored in the front-end. It is actually stored in a secured place which is called the database. In the middle we have the back-end technologies which are basically responsible for fetching the requested data from the database and sending it as response to the front-end. Only then the front-end can display this data in a user-friendly way.
It’s very common to get a doubt as a beginner such as why do we need these back-end technologies to interact with the database? Can’t we directly connect to the database?
Well, to answer this question, let’s simply assume that front-end techs have the capability to directly connect to the database and fetch the data. Let’s see what are the consequences if you develop such an application. Let me inform you that the front-end files such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript can be completely downloaded by the users using their respective browsers. So if you are connecting to your database from your front-end, then you would also have written the database server details and credentials somewhere inside your HTML or JavaScript. This will pose an extremely high data security risk because this sensitive information can be downloaded by anyone who is accessing your website. This is one of the reasons why we need back-end technologies in the middle.
Skills needed for a full stack developer
Let’s now look at the must-have skills to become a full stack developer.
1. Front-end technologies
It is the actual website with which the users or customers interact directly. As part of the front-end, it is mandatory for every developer to be good with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You should be familiar at least with one or more popular front-end development frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue.
It is also good to be comfortable in using bootstrap and jQuery which basically helps in speeding up the styling and working with DOM elements. You should also be familiar with visualization JS libraries such as ChartJS and BeFreeJS.
2. Back-end technologies
As it was said before, these technologies help in communication between front-end and the databases. For back-end we have a variety of options to choose. I will mention some of the popular technologies that can be used to develop the back-end part.
At first we have the Python stack, which consists of django, flask, cherry py and pyramid.
Next we have the Godhead stack which consists of some of the popular back-end frameworks like asp.net Web API, .net core Web API and some others.
You should also use PHP for back-end as it is still one of the most widely used languages to develop WordPress websites. Currently, over 34% of websites in the world are built with WordPress which uses PHP as its programming language.
It may be also required to be good with ORM tools. ORM means object relational mapping and it is a tool which helps you to interact with a database directly using your preferred language instead of having to learn SQL or another structured language.
3. Databases
As a full stack developer, you will have to be good at working with databases. Databases are actual places where all the relevant details required by our apps such as user details, application data and other details will be stored.
You should be familiar with SQL databases and it is good to have the familiarity with no SQL databases as well.
Well, under SQL we have popular databases such as Oracle SQL, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, SQLite.
You have to be very good at debugging and writing SQL queries, stored procedures and SQL functions.
4. Source control software
Source control software is basically a tool which helps you to keep track of all the changes done to the application by different developers and also helps in collaboration with different developers from different places.
Some of the popular source control tools are Git, CVS and Microsoft TFS.
5. Knowledge of popular mobile application development frameworks
As a full stack developer, you have to know how to work with frameworks for Android and iOS development such as Android Studio, Xcode, React Native, Ionic and Native Script.
6. Devops and agile methodology
Devops is a set of software development practices which helps in collaboration between the development and the operations team to shorten the development lifecycle.
Agile methodology helps to break the product into several deliverable pieces which help in continuous communication between the development team and the customer to make sure that everyone is aligned with the development of the final product.
What jobs can you have being an AngularJS developer?
Actually, being an AngularJS developer means that you must deal with almost everything. To be more exact, I will describe some of the responsibilities.
So, the primary responsibility will be to provide technical expertise and coordinate for day to day deliverables for the team. The developer will assist in the technical design of large business systems; build applications, interfaces between applications, understand data security, retention, and recovery. The role holder should be able to research technologies independently to recommend appropriate solutions and should contribute to technology-specific best practices and standards. He or she must contribute to success criteria from design through deployment, including reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability and scalability; contribute expertise on significant application components, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guide/mentor the team during the build and test phases.
So, this is it for now. Don’t forget to improve your skills constantly. I wish you to become a full stack developer and get a job of your dream!
