MEAN Stack Developer :
An IT professional who works on a collection of JavaScript technologies to develop web applications is called a MEAN stack developer.
MEAN refers to
- M for MongoDB (NoSQL database)
- E for Express (a backend web application framework for Node.js)
- A for Angular (JavaScript based open-source frontend web framework to develop single page applications front end framework)
- N for Node.js (an open source, cross-platform run-time environment for developing server-side and network applications)
Pros of Mean Stack Development:
- It helps in developing websites/apps faster and simpler.
- This uses only one uniform language which is used for stack development.
- It helps in developing applications on a rapid base.
- It uses very low memory as overhead.
- It organizes the whole application.
- It helps to avoid every unnecessary groundwork.
- Its Mongo DataBase is used for cloud storage.
Cons of Mean Stack Development:
- It is not best for large-scale applications.
- It has no specific JavaScript program coding guidelines.
- It is hard to go back to approach the old data when you already developed the website using Mean Stack technology.
- In business logic, it gives poor isolation from the server.
- It loses record and doesn’t have backup facilities.
Full Stack Developer:
An IT professional who works on the development of both server-side and client-side software, is called a full stack developer who requires knowledge on a set of technologies.
The pre-requisites for full stack developer:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript, Angular JS, or Vue
- PHP, ASP, Python, Node.js
- Program a database like MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB
Front-end or Client side softwares :
- HTML
- CSS
- Bootstrap
- JavaScript
- XML
- jQuery
- Angular
- Backbone.js
- Ember.js
- GraphQL
- Meteor.js
- Storybook
Back-end or Server side software:
- PHP
- ASP
- C++
- Java
- Python
- Node.js
- Ruby
- SQL
- MongoDB
- Firebase.com
- SaaS
- PaaS (Azure)
Pros of Full-stack development:
- In a development project, you can master all the techniques involved.
- Making a prototype is rapidly very good.
- It provides help to each of your team members.
- We can reduce the cost of the project.
- We can reduce the time used for your team member’s communication.
- We can switch both front-end and back-end development based on their requirements.
- We can also understand the upcoming technologies and the aspects of new techniques.
Cons of Full-stack development :
- In the project, the choice of solution can be wrong.
- It can be dependent on development skills as the chosen solution.
- A key-person risk can be held by the solution.
Difference between MEAN stack developer and Full stack developer :
| S.NO. | MEAN STACK DEVELOPER | FULL STACK DEVELOPER |
| 01. | An IT professional who works on a collection of JavaScript technologies to develop web applications is called a MEAN stack developer where MEAN refers to MongoDB, Expressjs, AngularJs, NodeJS. | An IT professional who works on the development of both server-side and client-side software, is called a full stack developer who requires knowledge on a set of technologies. |
| 02. | MEAN stack development is a set of four full-stack technologies that can be used to make a full-stack application. It is an integral part of full-stack development. | A full-stack developer knows all the web development frameworks, technologies, programming languages required to develop a fully functional website. |
| 03. | In this, developers are widely facilitated to use the Angular front-end framework. | In this, developers can use any front-end technologies from a lot of front-end development frameworks. |
| 04. | In this, developers are enabled node.js to write server-side code in JavaScript. | But in this, developers are enabled to take benefits of robust server-side programming language. |
| 05. | There is only one database i.e Mongo DB. | In this, developers are work with a lot of databases like MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. |
| 06. | In these development enterprises, it simulates full-stack development by writing both sides of programming code in JavaScript. | In these development enterprises, we can get the front-end and the back-end at the same time. |
| 07. | MEAN stack generally refers to a full-stack development framework. | Full-stack generally refers to a full-stack development process based on the mentioned technologies. |
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