Ultimate Web Development Roadmap

The demand for websites is continuously growing. We are seeing continuous growth of businesses, so the demand of website  will not stop in the near future.

But most of those who are thinking about getting into web development don’t know the roadmap for how to become a good web developer and how to land a job.

So, in this article, we will discuss what you need to learn and in which order.

There are three types of developers:

1. Front-end developer
2. Back-end developer
3. Full-stack developer

What do these terms mean?

The front end is what we see on the website. I mean the main website that we browse: the pages, colors, fonts, writings, videos, pictures—everything that we see is the front end. 

The back end is where the data is saved and the work is done.

The full-stack developer does both of these. So, the full-stack developer works on both the front end and the back end.

Anyone can choose between these three options. Those who prefer the design section can get into the front end, and those who prefer to play with the data and servers can get into the back end.

Front End Journey:

To get into the front end, you need to start with HTML. If we think of a website as a human body, HTML is like the bones. It is the structure of a website. Then you will need CSS. Using CSS, we do the designing of the website. What will be the color of this button? How will this page look? What will be the text color? What will be the size? Everything is done using CSS. After learning CSS, which we call vanilla CSS, you need to learn a few frameworks. It can be Bootstrap, Tailwind, or something else. It’s better to learn a few. The frameworks will help you minimize your code, and there are custom-made components that you will be able to use inside your website and easily design the website.

After learning HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks, you will be able to create any kind of website pages. The website where you can see the writings, images, videos, contents, and everything, but you will not be able to interact with the website. For interaction, you will need JavaScript.

Using JavaScript, you can interact with the website. You can command that this button will do this thing; if I click this button, it will take me to another page; if I click this social media icon, it will take me to my social media page. For these things, you will need JavaScript. After learning JavaScript, you are pretty much okay with the front end. But still, to develop your front-end skills more, you should learn one JavaScript framework. Here you can choose React, Angular, or Vue.js. Most companies prefer React.js and Angular.js. So, after learning JavaScript properly, you can choose the React framework. These things are pretty much enough for the front-end part of your website.  

Back End Journey:

Then you will need to learn Node.js because JavaScript is made for the front end of the website, where JavaScript itself is not used for back-end programming. By using Node.js, you can use JavaScript for both the front end and the back end. After that you will need to learn about authentication. For almost every website, you will have some personal area where you can log in and do some tasks. To do this, you need to login to the website. Without it, you will not be able to get into your profile. For authentication, you can learn Firebase. Firebase gives you the flexibility to authenticate your users in multiple ways, such as Google, email, or GitHub authentication.

After this, you need to know a database, for example, MongoDB or MySQL. MongoDB is where the data is saved. For example, you can think of it as a bank account where you save all of your money, and here in this MongoDB server or the MongoDB bank, you can save all of your photos or videos or your customers’ data and account information. So, whenever you ask for the photo, the bank or the MongoDB server will serve it to you, and it will show the contents to your user.