Re:Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack"
by bdicasa on Friday September 28, 2012 @04:16PM
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Check out Twitter Bootstrap as well. It works well with jQuery and you can end up with a pretty nice site even if your design skills aren't that great.
http://jetstrap.com is a GUI for building pages with backbone components and getting html generated for you
It's almost essential to be familiar with jQuery for in-browser Javascript development these days (I'm not sure of its market penetration but I'd be shocked if fewer than 33% of websites use it). There's lots of cool new libraries on the front end with various pros and cons, but jQuery is a really good start.