[ruraljuror]

I don't think so. I think the self distinction is between developers who work exclusively on the front end or back end of websites vs those who do it all. My guess would be the correlation between the self identification has less to do with developer skill than to team/business size. If you are on a team of two or three people, and changes need to be made to the database, JS, and server-side code, you're going to be working across the full stack in a variety of languages. I don't think this approach lends itself to mastery or specialization, and so if you're like me you will be using SO to find out how to do simple things in JS.

But I see your point, the commentary suggests full-stack developers are more skilled.

[josteink]

> you are on a team of two or three people, and changes need to be made to the database, JS, and server-side code, you're going to be working across the full stack in a variety of languages.

So basically a web developer then. Right.