Full Stack Development with JHipster

Introduction to Modern Web Application Development

According to the Stack Overflow developer survey 2017 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#developer-profile-specific-developer-types), full-stack web developer is the most popular developer title. The software industry defines a full-stack developer as someone who can work on different areas of an application stack. The term stack refers to different components and tools that make up an application.

In terms of web application development, the stack can be broadly classified into two areas—frontend and backend stack or client-side and server-side stack. Frontend generally refers to the part that is responsible for rendering the user interface, and backend refers to the part that ...