Full stack web development for beginners

Abstract

Web apps are built on a software stack – a collection of technologies, languages, protocols, and systems working together to produce what appears to the user as a single, seamless app. Full stack web development is about configuring and programming all parts of that software stack to create and maintain a web app.

A full stack web developer is a software developer who possesses skills in all aspects of web app development. Full stack developers need a working knowledge of HTML & CSS in order to develop user interfaces and write code that interacts with those interfaces. They also need a working knowledge of JavaScript, event-driven programming, and the Document Object Model (DOM) in order to add programming logic and real time interaction to the user interface. Finally, they need a working knowledge of a database query language such as SQL and a server-side programming language such as PHP, Ruby, or JavaScript to manage user access to the data stored by a web app.

This book will quickly bring novice programmers up to speed in the basics of full stack web application development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL.