--- title: Skills required to be a full stack developer: a checklist description: The skills list required to be a full stack developer is long and it can be hard to know exactly what skills you need. The often shared online resource for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/skills-required-to-be-a-full-stack-developer-a-checklist--djilbesu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Skills required to be a full stack developer: a checklist | daily.dev og:description: The skills list required to be a full stack developer is long and it can be hard to know exactly what skills you need. The often shared online resource for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/skills-required-to-be-a-full-stack-developer-a-checklist--djilbesu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/_djILbEsU.png og:image:alt: Skills required to be a full stack developer: a checklist og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Skills required to be a full stack developer: a checklist **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 120 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary The skills list required to be a full stack developer is long and it can be hard to know exactly what skills you need. The often shared online resource for this kind of thing is roadmap.sh but, while it is extensive, I think the amount covered here is too much to be helpful to new developers. I have my own list, it’s a bare minimum required skills list and it looks like this: ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@joaooliveira85** · 8 upvotes > It's a cool article, for sure, but I'd say it's more a "checklist to get started if you're a frontend developer" as it's too focused on JS and ignores other routes. Still, it's a good starting point. **@thehungrybird** · 1 upvotes > great list. **@yardan\_dev** · 0 upvotes > good guide for beginners who want to dive into web development **@jctechdev** · 0 upvotes > Love this! **@jctechdev** · 0 upvotes > I am sharing this to friends who are starting as web dev. 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Thanks!","datePublished":"2021-08-18T23:17:24.940Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/_djILbEsU#c-KTgUs2xq6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"jeff Chavez","url":"https://daily.dev/jctechdev","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/67730687?v=4"}}]} ```