Starting My Full Stack Web Developer Journey

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Hi Dev community!

Excited to share that I plan to start my full stack web development journey!

I have thought of to start at front end then focus on back end , as well as create some projects during the journey

So here is my planning

Front-End

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
ReactJs

Back-End

Node
mongodb

These are my plans and I am a newbie in web development so seeking help and if I have to add any tech stack in front or back end please comment and help me out.

Thankyou for your support dev's!

Top comments (5)

Joe Mainwaring • Oct 7 '22 • Edited

Hello Mohamed! I'm glad to hear that you're interested in building a skill in full stack web development!

Software Development is a lot like being a Medical professional, there's an incredible amount of different specialties to choose from, which would dictate which skills you'd want to learn.

Deciding to start with a full-stack JavaScript route is solid strategy to pursue, as it will reduce the mental gymnastics (you can learn SQL/Ruby/Go/etc later!) while giving you a chance to build up conceptual knowledge that transcends specific choices in a tech stack.

I've taught bootcamp programs before, if I were to design a full-stack JS course today, this would be my curriculum:

Git & Github basics
JavaScript basics
node.js & mongodb => build a basic backend
html, css, and browser-based JS
ReactJS => build a basic frontend
Project tooling (examples: webpack, grunt.js. rollup, etc)
CI/CD Tooling with Github Actions => We would automate the build step from the prior lesson
Environment Variables & Secrets
Deploying your code
Maintaining your project (see my post How I maintain Open Source Projects for some context)
Advanced Concepts: DRY, Low-Code, and outsourcing features