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.

Most Liked

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)

Popular Frontend topics Top

PragmaticBookshelf
WebAssembly fulfills the long-awaited promise of web technologies: fast code, type-safe at compile time, execution in the browser, on emb...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Design websites faster than ever using Sass—the most mature and popular CSS meta-language. Code the right way in Sass with short, clear e...
New
First poster: bot
A new Svelte blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: What's new in Svelte: January 2021
New
New
mrmurphy
The situation Hi there! I’m working on a live view app right now that encrypts sensitive user content (text and images) using the browser...
New
First poster: bot
Flame is a fast & simple framework inspired by the Elm architecture for building web applications in PureScript
New
First poster: bot
Fable 3.2.12 has been released. Link: Release 3.2.12 · fable-compiler/Fable · GitHub
New
magarrent
Welcome to @actionforms_io :rocket: No code - No backend Form sender for developers Send your without a backend Join now: https://www...
New
First poster: bot
Yew yew-v0.19.3, yew-router-v0.16.0 and yew-agent-v0.1.0 has been released. Link: Release yew-v0.19.3 · yewstack/yew · GitHub Link: R...
New
New

Other popular topics Top

dasdom
No chair. I have a standing desk. This post was split into a dedicated thread from our thread about chairs :slight_smile:
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Design and develop sophisticated 2D games that are as much fun to make as they are to play. From particle effects and pathfinding to soci...
New
brentjanderson
Bought the Moonlander mechanical keyboard. Cherry Brown MX switches. Arms and wrists have been hurting enough that it’s time I did someth...
New
dimitarvp
Small essay with thoughts on macOS vs. Linux: I know @Exadra37 is just waiting around the corner to scream at me “I TOLD YOU SO!!!” but I...
New
AstonJ
Seems like a lot of people caught it - just wondered whether any of you did? As far as I know I didn’t, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Rails 7 completely redefines what it means to produce fantastic user experiences and provides a way to achieve all the benefits of single...
New
New
AstonJ
Was just curious to see if any were around, found this one: I got 51/100: Not sure if it was meant to buy I am sure at times the b...
New
husaindevelop
Inside our android webview app, we are trying to paste the copied content from another app eg (notes) using navigator.clipboard.readtext ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Author Spotlight: Peter Ullrich @PJUllrich Data is at the core of every business, but it is useless if nobody can access and analyze ...
New