growth in advertising for Full Stack engineers are actually glorified Front End roles
Right. People think I’m a hater because I say “full stack engineer” is just title-inflation for webdev, but I’m just telling it how the entire rest of the world sees it.
Throughout most of the history of the web, the same people wrote the CGI scripts, and any SQL in them, as wrote the HTML; working this way is perfectly normal for a webdev for like the last 20 years. I guess we were all “full stack engineers” back then, just we didn’t have a grandiose title.
IMHO, it's got more to do with the expansion and change of the Front End developer role, than direct title inflation per se. Now, a front end developer has to maintain consistent behaviour across a panoply of platforms - each under constant change and growth, whereas the scope of actual 'web development' has remained a relatively static. It's becoming less and less realistic to expect one person to be able to effectively handle both roles any more, without making compromises on UI behaviour and compatibility.
Right. People think I’m a hater because I say “full stack engineer” is just title-inflation for webdev, but I’m just telling it how the entire rest of the world sees it.
Throughout most of the history of the web, the same people wrote the CGI scripts, and any SQL in them, as wrote the HTML; working this way is perfectly normal for a webdev for like the last 20 years. I guess we were all “full stack engineers” back then, just we didn’t have a grandiose title.