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Re:Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack" by bartonfink on Friday September 28, 2012 @03:46PM (#4587448)
For what it's worth, I now describe myself as a full-stack developer even though I cannot make something pretty. I see that as a designer's job, and while a front-end specialist should be able to whip something up in photoshop, I think that it's perfectly reasonable to say that your part of the work ends with something being functional.

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.

Re:Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack" by bdicasa on Friday September 28, 2012 @04:16PM (#4587581)
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.
Re:Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack" by mcs on Saturday September 29, 2012 @12:23AM (#4588819)
http://jetstrap.com is a GUI for building pages with backbone components and getting html generated for you