Ayushk

Ayushk

Front end Developer Skills

Hello,

This is pretty basic. I was trying to explore the front-end development as I was not from a tech background. But, very much interested in learning. I was exploring this Frontend article here

I just wanted to understand if there are any more skills/languages I have to learn in order to get started with this. May be a basic to advanced guide.

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OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

That’s a good idea, we need a topic here full of wiki-posts to detail variety of frameworks, basic skills needed, etc… etc…

As to that article, I’d definitely say typescript is more important than javascript, as it is javascript but with types to make it not hell to debug.

Learn webpack, it’s basically taken over the ‘frontend builder’ scene. It’s own homepage is decent as a reference, careful of tutorials because it’s changed a lot over the years so you want modern tutorials.

Don’t touch jquery. Don’t touch anything that touches jquery. Jquery is not only no longer relevant it’s actively harmful now. Vanilla JS can do everything it can, and if you want some of its few areas where its actually more succinct then just make your own functions to wrap the vanilla functionality or get one of the better libraries out that are actually fast and not harmful to performance and memory.

SASS and such other CSS preprocessors are basically all replaced now with PostCSS, PostCSS should be the CSS preprocessor used for any new CSS work, don’t touch the older ones anymore unless working on an old project that already uses them.

For CSS learn flexbox and grid css, those are the two modern ways supported by every evergreen browser and they make CSS sooooo much easier than the old methods!

And yes, learn git, not just from a gui, I’m entirely of the thinking that you should learn the cli, and not just the commands but what it does and how it works! Such knowledge you won’t use often, but the few times you will it will save your butt!

And of course test test test, the front-end world has a ton of great testing infrastructure from unit test things to full on virtual browsers to test full functionality.

And don’t forget that firefox/chrome/others have some fantastic debugging and performance tools for CSS, JS, and HTML, learn them and use them!

AstonJ

AstonJ

Another great post ODL! And I agree, it definitely makes for a good wiki topic :smiley:

Could split your post as a starting point if you like - but what to call it? State of Frontend Dev 2021?

jaeyson

jaeyson

I saw similar like frontend masters (2019 frontend handbook)

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