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Discussion on: Why Am I Hung Up on the Term Fullstack?

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ajcwebdev

Well I'm glad to hear as a Developer Advocate that I've got the right title at least 🥳.

I think that's a totally valid rant. My use of the term has never had anything to do with job titles or even people really. For me it's more to do with frameworks. It's mostly just been a useful shorthand for me to specify a framework that includes some kind of client side tool, a server, and a database (Redwood, Blitz, Bison as the canonical examples) in contrast to a framework that is only client side (React, Vue) or client side and server side but without a database (Next, Nuxt).

Do you think there's a more suitable term to describe this concept, or should I just give up on trying to find a succinct way of explaining this distinction?

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TED Vortex (Teodor Eugen Duțulescu)

I mean in terms of development I view anyone seriously into it as an engineer and treat words and complex terms as attention media / hype. It's good to be able to talk to everyone, but not worth the damage projecting such thing onto oneself causes :D