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6 Skills to Become a Front-End Developer

πŸ†– Karan Oza on August 09, 2020

What is Front-End Development? The front end of a website is the part that users interact with. Everything that you see when you're navigating a...
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Titilope Rotimi

Quick question... Is it better to test while coding or after you're done with the whole thing... Cos I feel it's better to solve any bug while it's easier to keep track rather than waiting to code the full stuff before testing

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

It's better to test your site after implementing each feature you added into it.
And related to bug it's good practice to resolve it on time rather than left it for later.

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Diona Rodrigues • Edited

Good tips! I think that many developers forget to be good at Performance and Testing and it's one of the gaps between a great developer and others. I also wrote some suggestions about how to become a great developer and it's always interesting to know that there are so many ways to learn front-end development. 😁

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Yesss just like many heads many mindsπŸ˜‡... Interesting to know others way also I will definitely read out ursπŸ€—

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Touhidul Shawan

How to do testing? I mean what is the procedures of testing.

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

There is tools for web testing like
Test io
Acunetix etc

But here we talking about functional testing, usability and compatibility testing where we can check our sites functionalities, workflow and security.

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Touhidul Shawan

Hmm. I understand. Thanks πŸ‘

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Richard

Awesome article! I'd love if you wrote about deployment in production and what happens to hosting. Does the client deal with it or do you as the Dev deal with it

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

In MNC or As a employee at somewhere you are not responsible for deployment there is another team who handle the deployment and production...

And There is alot to say in deployment I am thinking to make separate article on that btw thanks for the pointing it outπŸ‘πŸ€—

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Richard

Awesome! I'm glad to here that if I get a job in web development I won't have to deal with deployment and hosting! 😊

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Miguel Carrillo

Short and to the point πŸ‘

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Thanks for the feedback 😊

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Akash bhandwalkar

Nice article Karan! Brief and touched important areas one should look into. kudos!

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Thank you so much akash β€οΈπŸ™
For take ur time and giving me feedback πŸ€—

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Andrew Baisden

Good article you covered some great areas. I know you only listed 6 but if you were to add 7 I would add SEO which is something that many developers overlook.

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Yaaa it helps to boost the site but that comes in some deployment part so that's why I skipped itπŸ€—
But thanks for the opinion brother πŸ‘

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btlm

Good article! I agree tests are the most underrated thing developers always skip.

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Thanks for the feedback πŸ€—β€οΈπŸ™

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Abel Lifaefi Mbula

Thank you for your post. I can see a little typo here "If you want me to make A article on any".
You can also add to your list all about tools like Gulp, Webpack...

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Shreyasi Patil

Great article πŸ‘πŸ‘

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πŸ†– Karan Oza

Thank you so much ShreπŸ€—