Difference between MEAN Stack and Full Stack Developer

MEAN Stack Developer :

An IT professional who works on a collection of JavaScript technologies to develop web applications is called a MEAN stack developer. 

MEAN refers to 

• M for MongoDB (NoSQL database)
• E for Express (a backend web application framework for Node.js)
• A for Angular (JavaScript based open-source frontend web framework to develop single page applications front end framework)
• N for Node.js (an open source, cross-platform run-time environment for developing server-side and network applications)

Pros of Mean Stack Development:

• It helps in developing websites/apps faster and simpler.
• This uses only one uniform language which is used for stack development.
• It helps in developing applications on a rapid base.
• It uses very low memory as overhead.
• It organizes the whole application.
• It helps to avoid every unnecessary groundwork.
• Its Mongo DataBase is used for cloud storage.

Cons of Mean Stack Development:

• It is not best for large-scale applications.
• It has no specific JavaScript program coding guidelines.
• It is hard to go back to approach the old data when you already developed the website using Mean Stack technology.
• In business logic, it gives poor isolation from the server.
• It loses record and doesn't have backup facilities.

Full Stack Developer:

An IT professional who works on the development of both server-side and client-side software, is called a full stack developer who requires knowledge on a set of technologies.

The pre-requisites for full stack developer:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript, Angular JS, or Vue
• PHP, ASP, Python, Node.js
• Program a database like MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB

Front-end or Client side softwares :

• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• JavaScript
• XML
• jQuery
• Angular
• Backbone.js
• Ember.js
• GraphQL
• Meteor.js
• Storybook

Back-end or Server side software:

• PHP
• ASP
• C++
• Java
• Python
• Node.js
• Ruby
• SQL
• MongoDB
• Firebase.com
• SaaS
• PaaS (Azure)

Pros of Full-stack development:

• In a development project, you can master all the techniques involved.
• Making a prototype is rapidly very good.
• It provides help to each of your team members.
• We can reduce the cost of the project.
• We can reduce the time used for your team member's communication.
• We can switch both front-end and back-end development based on their requirements.
• We can also understand the upcoming technologies and the aspects of new techniques.

Cons of Full-stack development :

• In the project, the choice of solution can be wrong.
• It can be dependent on development skills as the chosen solution.
• A key-person risk can be held by the solution.

Difference between MEAN stack developer and Full stack developer :

S.NO.	MEAN STACK DEVELOPER	FULL STACK DEVELOPER
01.	An IT professional who works on a collection of JavaScript technologies to develop web applications is called a MEAN stack developer where MEAN refers to MongoDB, Expressjs, AngularJs, NodeJS.	An IT professional who works on the development of both server-side and client-side software, is called a full stack developer who requires knowledge on a set of technologies.
02.	MEAN stack development is a set of four full-stack technologies that can be used to make a full-stack application. It is an integral part of full-stack development.	A full-stack developer knows all the web development frameworks, technologies, programming languages required to develop a fully functional website.
03.	In this, developers are widely facilitated to use the Angular front-end framework.	In this, developers can use any front-end technologies from a lot of front-end development frameworks.
04.	In this, developers are enabled node.js to write server-side code in JavaScript.	But in this, developers are enabled to take benefits of robust server-side programming language.
05.	There is only one database i.e Mongo DB.	In this, developers are work with a lot of databases like MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
06.	In these development enterprises, it simulates full-stack development by writing both sides of programming code in JavaScript.	In these development enterprises, we can get the front-end and the back-end at the same time.
07.	MEAN stack generally refers to a full-stack development framework.	Full-stack generally refers to a full-stack development process based on the mentioned technologies.