The Full Stack Developer: Your Essential Guide to the Everyday Skills Expected of a Modern Full Stack Web Developer

Description

Understand the technical foundations, as well as the non-programming skills needed to be a successful full stack web developer. This book reveals the reasons why a truly successful full stack developer does more than write code.  You will learn the principles of the topics needed to help a developer new to agile or full stack working―UX, project management, QA, product management, and more― all from the point of view of a developer. Covering these skills alongside the fundamentals and foundations of modern web development, rather than specifics of current technologies and frameworks (which can age quickly), all programming examples are given in the context of the web as it is in 2018. Although you need to feel comfortable working on code at the system, database, API, middleware or user interface level, depending on the task in hand, you also need to be able to deal with the big picture and the little details. The Full Stack Developer recognizes skills beyond the technical, and gives foundational knowledge of the wide set of skills needed in a modern software development team.   What You'll Learn Plan your work including Agile vs Waterfall, tools, scrum, kanban and continuous delivery Translate UX into code: grids, component libraries and style guides Design systems and system architectures (microservices to monoliths) Review patterns for APIs (SOAP, AJAX, REST), defining API domains, patterns for REST APIs and more API goodness Study the various front-end design patterns you need to know Store data, what to consider for security, deployment, in production and more Who This Book Is For New graduates or junior developers who are transitioning to working as part of a larger team structure in a multi-disciplinary teams and developers previously focused on only front-end or back-end dev transitioning into full stack.  Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii The Modern Web (Chris Northwood)....Pages 1-9 Planning Your Work (Chris Northwood)....Pages 11-46 User Experience (Chris Northwood)....Pages 47-66 Designing Systems (Chris Northwood)....Pages 67-93 Ethics (Chris Northwood)....Pages 95-102 Front End (Chris Northwood)....Pages 103-140 Testing (Chris Northwood)....Pages 141-157 JavaScript (Chris Northwood)....Pages 159-208 Accessibility (Chris Northwood)....Pages 209-225 APIs (Chris Northwood)....Pages 227-250 Storing Data (Chris Northwood)....Pages 251-265 Security (Chris Northwood)....Pages 267-293 Deployment (Chris Northwood)....Pages 295-317 In Production (Chris Northwood)....Pages 319-330 Constant Learning (Chris Northwood)....Pages 331-337 Epilogue (Chris Northwood)....Pages 339-340 Back Matter ....Pages 341-348