The **Simplest** Web Developer Path for 2021

so you want to become a web developer in 2021 well there's lots of things you could learn so i'm going to give you the most minimal straightforward path that you can follow to do just that in about four minutes now first off there's a lot of different videos on this exact same topic on youtube some of them from friends of mine like brad traversey of traversing media and jesse hall of the code stacker channel those videos are absolutely incredible you should go check them out with the links below but this video is much different it is the most minimal straightforward path you can find to becoming a web developer in 2021 now make sure to stick around to the end because i'm going to share with you the number one question you need to be able to ask yourself and answer to gauge where you are with your web development skills as you go through your learning process so the number one set of things that you need to learn to get started is three things html css and javascript those are the core technologies for building web applications and the cool thing is you can start learning absolutely free you can check out youtube which you're already here right now you can look for tutorials there and you can also check out the number one resource for people getting started which is free code camp and they provide guided tutorials to help you progress through learning those three things now as you learn you need to be pushing yourself to build bigger and bigger bigger projects those might start out really really small and might gradually get a little bigger but you need to make sure that you're experimenting and pushing yourself to build as you learn now the next thing you want to learn is a front-end framework something like react and view i personally use react but you can find lots of content and tutorials on both of them to learn how to build modern front end web applications now after you've kind of solidified that react or view knowledge and you've built a few things yourself start thinking about full stack applications which means you need to learn how to do server-side code for your web applications since you've already got experience with javascript i recommend moving to node which allows you to run javascript on the server you can use a framework on top of that called express you can combine that with react and then a database like mongodb to learn the mern stack for building full stack applications mern standing for express react and node that is highly recommended from my perspective of the way you should go to learn how to do this now if you want some structure on how to do all of that i would recommend spending a little bit of money on udemy to buy a ten dollar course to give you some structure along the way now my very favorite course the one that changed my career completely and drastically is the web developer boot camp by colt steele on udemy have a link to that below which you should check out and go through that course as well so i mentioned there's one question you need to ask yourself to gauge where you are in your web development journey and that question is can you build a full stack crud application cred stands for create read update and delete if you can do that that means you've got skills in front end backend database and how to put it all together and to me that is the most important aspect of becoming a web developer is do you understand how these pieces fit together you may not become a full stack developer you might focus on the front end or back end but having that knowledge is the best way for me to tell you to put yourself in the best position to become a web developer now a little extra here if you're looking for a few additional things to add on to this list typescript is a type superset of javascript that is becoming more and more popular graphql is a data layer a very modern data layer for being able to query data that is becoming more and more popular and then you might look into doing unit testing this is something that will be really impressive for people for hiring managers if you have a little bit of background in testing i think that will give you a leg up over other candidates so you want to become a web developer in 2021 html css javascript front-end framework like react or view go merge stack for full stack crud applications with express react and node and if you're looking for a few extras typescript graphql unit testing that's all i have that's the quick guide hopefully you enjoyed it let me know if you think there's anything i missed and i'll catch you in the next video

Channel: James Q Quick

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Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 26 2021