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Where The F*ck Do I Start Learning Web Development?

Recorded:
May 21, 2024
Released:
June 25, 2024
Episode Number:
315

Learning web development is not a clear linear path. At the highest level there's frontend development and backend development...but these categories break down into a tonne of different technologies including (but not limited to) React, Vue, Svelte, SvelteKit, HTML, CSS, JavaScript....and the list just keeps going on. For a beginner, this spider-web of technologies seems like an insurmountable learning path. In this episode, Matt and Mike discussed where they think you should start learning web development, touching on different pathways, and eventually laying out their preferred path in detail.

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Who’s in This Episode?

Matt Lawrence
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Web developer, podcast host, podcast producer, always gaming
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Mike Karan
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Podcast host, Twitter aficionado, and DevRel @plasmicapp
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Different Paths

  • Front-end first
  • Back-end first
  • Design/UX
  • Jump right into an opinionated framework

Our Recommendations

  1. HTML, CSS
    1. Dip toe into SCSS
    2. Kevin Powell HTML and CSS Crash Course on Scrimba: https://v2.scrimba.com/html-css-crash-course-c02l 
  2. JavaScript
    1. Create interactive UI’s
    2. Add animations 
    3. Make a small game
    4. Learn different ways to manipulate an array
      1. Map, filter, include, reduce, find, for, etc
    5. JavaScript deep dive Scrimba course: https://v2.scrimba.com/javascript-deep-dive-c0a 
  3. Node.js
    1. Build a small api that returns some data with just node + express
      1. Learn how to host this locally and potentially remotely 
    2. Connect front-end you built before with the back-end
    3. Connect a DB (Postgres, sqllite, mysql, doesn’t matter…)
    4. Add some sort of authentication (api or user auth)
    5. Add a bit of TypeScript (stick to inferred types as much as possible)
      1. Typescript 
    6. Node.js Crash course from Brad Traversy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32M1al-Y6Ag 
  4. Svelte/SvelteKit
    1. Learn svelte 
    2. Learn SvelteKit
    3. Joy of Code SvelteKit Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGkX4RvZ38&t=1071s 
    4. Create full-stack app that includes
      1. Front-end
      2. API layer
        1. CRUD
      3. DB
      4. Auth
      5. Component lib
      6. Bonus
        1. Analytics
        2. 3rd party integrations
        3. Nice design

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