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Posted on Mar 1 • Updated on Apr 17 • Originally published at madza.hashnode.dev

19 Valuable GitHub Repositories for Beginner Developers 📚✨

#webdev #github #career #beginners

I have often been asked what resources would I recommend for beginners looking to step their foot into the web development career. I often refer to GitHub as a great place to start.

I decided to compile some of the best repositories I know. I wish I knew them when I started myself, so treat them as a valuable shortcut to speed up your learning path.

This article is obviously oriented on beginners, though I'm sure some of the more experienced developers might learn a thing or two from these, too.

To help you to navigate I have arranged them via categories, starting from basics to courses, handbooks, best practices, projects, interviews, and resources.

Fundamentals ⚡

kamranahmedse / developer-roadmap

Roadmap to becoming a developer in 2022

This is probably the best and most complete roadmap, that will help you to grasp the bigger picture of the development landscape, its main technologies, and the recommended sequence of learning things.

Courses 👨‍🏫

3. web-dev-for-beginners

⭐ GitHub stars 41k+

microsoft / Web-Dev-For-Beginners

24 Lessons, 12 Weeks, Get Started as a Web Developer

Quality 12-week, 24-lesson course about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics. Each lesson includes pre-and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment, and more.

4. javascript-30

⭐ GitHub stars 18k+

wesbos / JavaScript30

30 Day Vanilla JS Challenge

Starter Files + Completed solutions for the JavaScript 30 Day Challenge by Wes Bos.

Handbooks 📚

5. developer-handbook

⭐ GitHub stars 1k+

apptension / developer-handbook

An opinionated guide on how to become a professional Web/Mobile App Developer.

6. spellbook-of-modern-webdev

⭐ GitHub stars 14k+

dexteryy / spellbook-of-modern-webdev

A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development

A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development.

Best Practices 💯

7. web-fundamentals

⭐ GitHub stars 12k+

google / WebFundamentals

Best practices for modern web development

Some of the best practices for modern web development, provided by Google developers.

8. airbnb

⭐ GitHub stars 120k+

airbnb / javascript

JavaScript Style Guide

One of the best Style Guides out there.

9. clean-code-javascript

⭐ GitHub stars 64k+

ryanmcdermott / clean-code-javascript

🛁 Clean Code concepts adapted for JavaScript

Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book "Clean Code", adapted for JavaScript. A guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript.

10. system-design-primer

⭐ GitHub stars 164k+

donnemartin / system-design-primer

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.

Projects 📂

11. simpl

⭐ GitHub stars 4k+

samdutton / simpl

Simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and Javascript:

Simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

12. realworld

⭐ GitHub stars 64k+

gothinkster / realworld

"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more 🏅

Realworld allows you to choose any frontend (React, Vue, & more) and any backend (Node, Django, & more) and see how they power real-world, beautifully designed full-stack apps.

13. build-your-own-x

⭐ GitHub stars 133k+

codecrafters-io / build-your-own-x

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

Build your own (insert technology here).

Interviews 💼

14. coding-interview-university

⭐ GitHub stars 211k+

jwasham / coding-interview-university

A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

15. front-end-interview-handbook

⭐ GitHub stars 32k+

yangshun / front-end-interview-handbook

⚡️ Front End interview preparation materials for busy engineers

Front End interview preparation materials for busy engineers.

16. tech-interview-handbook

⭐ GitHub stars 66k+

yangshun / tech-interview-handbook

💯 Curated interview preparation materials for busy engineers

Curated interview preparation materials for busy engineers. For a better reading experience, check out techinterviewhandbook.org.

Also, check out Grind 75 - a tool to generate coding interview study plans based on preparation time left.

Resources 💾

17. design-resources-for-developers

⭐ GitHub stars 36k+

bradtraversy / design-resources-for-developers

Curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools and much more

A curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools, and much more.

18. free-programming-books

⭐ GitHub stars 223k+

EbookFoundation / free-programming-books

📚 Freely available programming books

Freely available programming books.

19. front-end-collection

⭐ GitHub stars 1k+

cheatsheet1999 / FrontEndCollection

Notes for Front-end Software Engineers. Covers common data structure and algorithms, basic web concepts, HTML & CSS & Javascript.

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Discussion (75)

anitaparmar26 • Mar 3

Thank you for sharing wonderful GitHub Repo for beginner.
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Free GitHub repo: dashui.codescandy.com/

alguerocode • Mar 1

this website is useful for this topic: masterjs.vercel.app/
is great resource collection for javascript

Madza • Mar 1

Thank you so much for sharing! 👍✨

Stanley Lim • Mar 3 • Edited on Mar 3

Self plug: I've been working on an easy to pick up CSS framework called Cirrus. Great for beginners who want to learn more about developing UIs quickly. github.com/Spiderpig86/Cirrus

Madza • Mar 4

This is a great addition 👍 Thanks 🙏❤

Sanket Sonvane • Mar 2 • Edited on Mar 2

My one favorite is the Awesome Repo
github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
It's like the one ring to rule them all. ✌🏻

Madza • Mar 2

That was is a vast ocean of resources ✨👍

z2lai • Mar 2

That links to a list of all the Awesome Lists, each Awesome List contains links to all awesome resources.

Madza • Mar 2

Excatly, it's like the root of all the resources 😀😀

Stephane Paquet • Mar 13

As many apps are sending emails I would like to add the following one to the list github.com/spaquet/docker-alpine-m...

It's mailcatcher running in a docker image. As the image is built on top of Alpine Linux its footprint is very small.

Madza • Mar 14

Thanks for sharing 👍💯

Jitu Chauhan • Mar 3 • Edited on Mar 5

Thank you for sharing this amazing list of beginner developer github repo.
We also as beginner build our first theme based on react bootstrap. Geeks UI.

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