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Illustration of a developer coding on a laptop at a desk, with screens showing tech symbols and a poster about full-stack development.

Illustration of a developer coding on a laptop at a desk, with screens showing tech symbols and a poster about full-stack development.

he Hard Truth About Becoming a Full-Stack Developer in 2025 Every day I see posts glorifying full-stack development as the one-stop career hack: “Learn React + Node + SQL in 30 days!”, but the reality is much deeper. In today’s market, companies expect full-stack engineers to own entire workflows end-to-end, not just toggle between HTML and database calls. From my experience building cloud-native microservices, Redis/BullMQ-based job queues, and scalable APIs, and integrating them with React and modern frontend architectures, here’s what I’ve learned: See more

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