Full Stack Vs Mean Stack – The Complete Guide

Two ends. No matter how you look at it, there are two ends to any website. Whether you're developing a website from scratch or looking to make improvements, there's a time when you'll need to know at least the basics of both front-end and back-end development.

Front-End Development

The front end of a website is what you see and interact with within your browser. It includes everything the user experiences directly: text and colours to buttons, images, and navigation menus. If you decide to start a business, you might open a gourmet dog treat bakery.

You need a professional website to present your company to customers and tell them where you’re located. You might include a few photos and some information about your products. All you need are frontend development technologies to develop your website.

Back-End Development

The backend (often called the server-side) is the portion of a website that users don’t see. It processes and organizes data, and ensures the client-side works properly. The backend communicates with the frontend, sending and receiving information to be displayed as a web page.

Your browser sends a request to the database whenever you fill out a contact form, enter in a web link, or make a purchase (any client-side activity), and the database responds with information in the form of HTML code that the browser can comprehend and display.

To make your new site a dynamic web application, you'll need additional backend components. A dynamic web application is one whose content changes based on what's in its database and can be modified by user input.

A static website, on the other hand, does not require a database because its content is relatively constant.

Full-Stack Development

A full-stack developer is a jack-of-all-trades, which means they’re familiar with both front and back-end development. She or he has a senior role in an organization and can guide and consult on the development and management of projects.

They are skilled with multiple frameworks of front-end development, and they are experienced in all the web development layers, from scratch to managing the databases, solving mission-critical needs, creating user experiences, and more.

Mean-Stack Development

The average stack developer is a member of the full-stack development community. A full-stack developer utilizes a full-stack series of JavaScript technologies to develop web applications. From server to client and database, everything is written in JavaScript.

The composition of MEAN creates a faster and better robust application. MEAN stack is a quicker, completely open-source, and optimizing user-friendly business kit for building non-static websites and apps.

Key Differences Between Full And Mean Stack Developers

Programming Languages

• Mean Stack is a full-stack framework for creating websites that use technologies based on the Java programming language.

• A full-stack refers to anyone who does both front-end and back-end development for creating websites.

• A full-stack developer can work on both server-side and client-side programs and languages, whereas a mean stack developer only works on particular frameworks related to Java or other particular languages.

Framework

• To work on a MEAN stack, a developer needs to learn about different frameworks that are either in the same language or Java-based.

• If a developer works on a full-stack, he/she will need to learn about both the back-end and front-end.

Platforms

• A full stack developer understands the ins and outs of several different frameworks since they are not restricted to learning only one language (i.e. Mean Stack). Full-stack developers have a broader understanding of the programming language and frameworks used to build websites.

• Mean stack provides an easy-to-use, built-on-node.js platform that requires only MongoDB and NoSQL.

Development Experience

• Full-stack can provide a more robust development experience with access to any SQL-based relational database.

• Mean stack helps developers to use Node.js— a JavaScript-based server-side programming language—and Express.js—a Node.js web application framework—for back-end or server-side programming, whereas full-stack refers to using multiple programming languages on the server-side including PHP, C.

• A developer with expertise in a particular technology stack, such as the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js and Node.js) may only be able to develop new applications in JavaScript, but a developer with full-stack knowledge may be able to use a variety of programming languages to enhance existing applications.

Cost of development

• Full-stack developers are more versatile than mean stack developers and are less costly for an organization because they complete a greater variety of work.

Resolving Issues

• In full-stack JavaScript, we can easily switch between front-end and back-end applications to resolve any issues in the project with knowing multiple languages and technologies, including HTML5 and CSS3.

• In JavaScript, we can switch between client and server-side applications to solve issues on the server using AngularJS, HTML5, and CSS3.

Salary of Developers

•  Mean stack developers, because they are less in demand than full-stack developers, are paid less and start at a lower rate of pay. The mean stack developer also makes less money over time.

• Full-stack developers do not have these issues and actually make more as their experience grows with more work available and more skill sets available to them

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In conclusion, it is the characteristics and insights of the client that will genuinely aid in the selection of the development language and developer. Before choosing one of the possibilities, one must carefully consider all of the options and maintain track of the strategic goals of the organisation.

The developers in a full-stack know multiple languages and are adaptable enough to deal with any programming, however in a mean stack, they adhere to a single language or framework, making the mean stack developer less versatile yet adaptable to selective projects. As a result, seek professional guidance before launching programming into your business.