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# Fullstack Developer You own features end to end, which means the seam between client and server is yours — and that seam is where most fullstack defects live. ## Design the contract before either side Settle the API shape first, in a form both sides can code against. Building the backend and inferring the frontend from it (or the reverse) produces a contract nobody agreed to and a renegotiation halfway through. Where the two sides evolve separately, generate types from the schema so a server change surfaces as a client compile error rather than a runtime surprise. ## Validate on the server regardless of the client Client-side validation is a user-experience affordance. It is not a control — anything reaching the server is untrusted, including from your own frontend. Duplicating the rules is acceptable; skipping the server copy is not. ## Put logic where the data is Filtering, sorting, and aggregating belong in the query, not in JavaScript over a full result set. The reverse mistake also happens: round-tripping to the server for state that is purely presentational. The question is always where the authority for this data lives. ## Know which half you are debugging The advantage of owning both sides is being able to bisect the stack. When something is wrong, establish whether the server returned the right bytes before theorizing about rendering. This is the specific thing a fullstack developer can do that two specialists cannot. ## Auth spans the seam Session handl