Front-end developer roadmap for 2021 🧵👇🏼

I started my web development journey exactly one year ago i,e. January 2020 and it's been a year since I'm in learning phase

In this thread I'll be covering

- All you need to learn about front-end development
- Tools and technologies
- Skills you need to learn
- Resources
First things first, you need an editor to write code. There are plethora of editors out there like atom, VS code, sublime etc

I recommend you to start with VS code. Why?👇🏼

🔹Many built-in features
🔹It's fast
🔹Large community
🔹IntelliSense code completion and debugging
Don't want to download an editor due to memory issue or something else?

Don't worry we have lots of online editors also👇🏼

🔹https://t.co/aq2wrH6cD3
🔹https://t.co/drzfitzmsG
Now you're all set to write code and create beautiful websites

A typical website can be divide into three phases

- HTML 🧱
- CSS 🎨
- JavaScript ⚙️
1. HTML

- It is used to build the skeleton for your website
- It's a markup language that totally operates on tags
- You can master it with 10 days

🔹 https://t.co/TlrsSM0dh9
2. CSS

- It is used to give the styling for your website
- Cascading Style Sheets, that totally operates on different properties
- You can learn it within 20-25 days but it will take time to master it
There are 520 distinct properties in CSS. But according to my personal experience, you will hardly use all of them.

Generally CSS revolves around👇🏼

- Box model
- Position
- Background
- Animation
- Media query
- Flex box
- CSS grid
Learning resources for CSS

Documentation
🔹 https://t.co/bBk1rSijxo

Check out this amazing article in order to learn CSS by playing games
🔹https://t.co/2klS6NLZ79
CSS Frameworks

- In simple words CSS frameworks are the CSS code written by some other developers. All you need to do is just import in your HTML file and now you can add styling in your website with even writing CSS code by yourself

- Isn't it cool😍
Learning a particular CSS framework is pretty easy. You can learn them by reading official documentation
- Pick any CSS Frameworks by your choice👇🏼

🔹Tailwind CSS
🔹Bootstrap
🔹Bulma
🔹Materialize CSS
🔹Foundation

... and many more
JavaScript

- JS is used to add functionality and behavior in your website

- JavaScript is a popular programming and widely used language for Web Development

- You can't master JS in few days or months, It will take time

But you will be able to create websites in few days.
Start with the basic topics👇🏼

- Data types
- Loops
- Conditional statements
- Objects
- Arrays
- Functions
Learning resources

Documentation
🔹https://t.co/XkMlZQOF0h

Other learning resources
🔹Start with freecodecamp @freeCodeCamp

🔹Recently @frontenddude launched a website for free JS resources 👉🏼 "java5cript .com"
Document Object Model (DOM)

- With the HTML DOM, you can access, modify and changes the HTML elements

- When a web page is loaded, the browser creates a Document Object Model of the page
With the help of DOM, JavaScript can change the

- elements in the page
- attributes
- CSS styling

I mean now you have a super power to make changes in you webpage using JS
Resources for DOM

🔹https://t.co/M9bS7wYawD
🔹https://t.co/xEsT3lbT1P
I think now it's the right time to learn Git and GitHub (version control)

- Git is a Version Control system used for tracking changes
- GitHub is a code hosting platform of Git

An amazing crash course by @freeCodeCamp on YouTube

https://t.co/ysa17PpoGO
JavaScript front-end frameworks and libraries

There are many like React, Angular, vue, Ember, Backbone etc. All are equally good.

I love React so I'm providing the learning resources for React👇🏼
You can check my complete thread of React resources

https://t.co/O5dCaqYV11
Advance Learning

- PWA
- JAMstack
- PWA are the web applications that are intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices

- JAMstack stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. Designed to make the web faster, more secure, and easier to scalable.
🔹https://t.co/n7mPgDLlN8

🔹https://t.co/4bMt5hRQKX
That's pretty much it for this thread. I hope you like it❤️

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The topic was “LongCovid, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & More”.
I quote from memory.
1/n
#MECFS #LongCovid


The bulk of Prof @Trishgreenhalgh’s presentation was on the importance of recognising LongCovid patient’s symptoms, and pathways for patients which recognised their condition as real. So far so good.

She was asked about “Post Exertional Malaise”... 2/n

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@Trishgreenhalgh acknowledged the new @NiceComms advice for LongCovid was planned to complement... 3/n

the ME/CFS guidelines, acknowledging some similarities.

Then it all went wrong.
@TrishGreenhalgh noted the changes to the @NiceComms guidance for ME/CFS, removing support for Graded Exercise Therapy / Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She noted there is a big debate about this. 4/n

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However Prof Greenhalgh then went off-piste.

5/n
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This is NOT going to be zillow "here is how to google school districts and find walmart" we are not concerned with this malarkey, we are homeschooling and planting victory gardens and having gigantic happy families.

With that said, for my frog and frog-adjacent bros and sisters:

CHOICE SITES:

Zillow is obvious one, but there are many good sites like Billy Land, Classic Country Land, Landwatch, etc. and many of these specialize in owner financing (more on that later.) Do NOT treat these as authoritative sources - trust plat maps and parcel viewers.

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Okay, everyone knows how to google "raw land in x state" but there are other resources out there, including state Departments of Natural Resources, foreclosure auctions, etc. Finding the land you like is the easy part. Let's do a case study.

I'm going to target using an "off-grid but not" algorithm. This is a good piece in my book - middle of nowhere but still trekkable to civilization.

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I’m launching my Forecasting For SEO course next month.

It’s everything I’ve learned, tried and tested about SEO forecasting.

The course: https://t.co/bovuIns9OZ

Following along 👇

Why forecasting?

Last year I launched
https://t.co/I6osuvrGAK to provide reliable forecasts to SEO teams.

It went crazy.

I also noticed an appetite for learning more about forecasting and reached out on Twitter to gauge interest:

The interest encouraged me to make a start...

I’ve also been inspired by what others are doing: @tom_hirst, @dvassallo and @azarchick 👏👏

And their guts to be build so openly in public.

So here goes it...

In the last 2 years I’ve only written 3 blog posts on my site.

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I only write when I feel like I’ve got something to say.

With forecasting, I’ve got something to say. 💭

There are mixed feelings about forecasting in the SEO industry.

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It’s difficult. 😩

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