Web Development Roadmap for 2022

Web Development is one of the most important skills to learn now, and the demand for web developers is continuously increasing. The no of growing startups and E-commerce has created a huge demand in the field of web development.

How to Start with Web Development?

As starting a Web Dev career, the most basic knowledge you must have is HTML, CSS and some Java Script basics like objects, arrays, functions and loops.

LEARN A FRONT-END FRAMEWORK

After getting some knowledge on HTML, CSS and Java Script, we can now proceed learning a front end framework like react. Why this means, these frameworks have inbuilt library and features that can make us build the website much faster and easier.

Recommended : React JS, Vue JS, Angular JS

LEARN A SERVER-SIDE LANGUAGE (BACK-END LANGUAGE)

After learning about a frontend framework, its time to learn a backend language for running your code server side. but its recommended not to go too deep in backend and get stuck and exhausted. Try to learn how the code works and some important syntax, like fetching a API , Routing ,GET and POST methods, JWT authentication, REST APIs etc..

Recommended : Node JS, PHP

LEARN ABOUT A DATABASE

Yes you heard me right, after the backend we must get into learning a database, it can be anything but must be able to combine well with your code. I would recommend firebase and MongoDB for relational databases, PostgreSQL and MySQL for structural databases. After learning a database we can take the user input from front-end and put it into the backend server and from there to our database.

this is the basics for becoming a web developer

now if you want to go deeper,

LEARN A SSR/SSG FRAMEWORK (SERVER SIDE RENDERING)

Most front end frameworks do client site rendering, where bots like google cannot read what's written in the site. So we use frameworks like Next js which can convert a dynamic site to a static site and make the site more SEO friendly.

Recommended : Next JS

LEARN CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CMS)

If you are running a site with lots of posts and feeds going, we must optimize it by using CMS like Strapi. What it does is it will add a admin section to login and manage your contents and posts.

Recommended : Strapi, Sanity IO

LEARN A BACKEND FRAMEWORK

Just like frontend the backend also comes with certain backend frameworks with inbuilt syntax and features.

Recommended : Express JS for Node JS, Laravel for PHP

HOSTING AND DEPLOYING

We can use static hosts like Netlify, GitHub pages to host any static site. If you are building something dynamic you can get into Heroku, or AWS.

SOFT SKILLS

Communication skills still proves to be one of the most important soft skill to develop, Team Working mentality is highly welcomed in this field, Time management, adaptability to the place of work are some of the soft skills you will need to survive in the web developer community.

congrats you have just entered to the web dev community!