Are You A Good Front End Engineer?

10 Must Have Traits of a Front-End Developer

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Living the developer life could sometimes be tiring and exhausting. There are days when you just get everything right and there would be days when you might consider alternative career choices, it’s all part and parcel of being a dev. So take things light and always keep your confidence high. Given the rapid changes in the software world, there are always new frameworks coming up everyday. So don’t fret, here are a bunch of things that can help you be a confident front end developer.

1. HTML and CSS

HTML and CSS are the basic blocks of any web application. These are the ABCs of being a front end Developer. To create a web-page it’s essential to be strong in HTML and CSS so that you set your foundation strong. The good thing here is that both these are pretty simple to master and it would only at the max take a few weeks for one to learn both HTML and CSS. If you have knowledge only in HTML and CSS then you can build basic static websites. Remember to master the following when you’re learning HTML and CSS:

DOM (Document Object Model)

The DOM is an object-oriented representation of the web page. It’s important to understand how every object in the DOM behaves the way it behaves.

DOM Manipulation

Once you’ve had a basic understanding of the DOM structure of HTML, then it’s important to understand how every element interacts with the other and how that can be controlled.

HTML Semantics

This is something a lot of developers coming to Frontend often ignore. Understanding HTML semantics plays a great role in improving your website’s overall structure, SEO, and accessibility.

CSS Selectors

Ensure you learn about every CSS selector that’s there so that styling your webpage becomes a cake walk for you.

2. JavaScript

As I had earlier mentioned with only HTML and CSS one can only build a basic website. When you start building websites with extensive designs and features, you can only do it with the help of JavaScript. JavaScript adds a…