I'm someone who's been through a handful of basic tutorials. I know what can be done, but every single time I try to actually code my own stuff, I end up Googling basic things.

I tried to follow along with big projects, but so much started to go over my head. I knew I needed a simpler way to learn if I wanted to make more progress.

Edabit is a Godsend for people in my position because it allows me to practice a lot of different types of problems with a high frequency. If you're struggling to go from "super beginner" to "beginner" I highly recommend it!

Link for those interested.

PS. I'm no way affiliated with them

Hi, I'm planning to build a course for junior front-end developers.

I've noticed a trend with junior colleagues where a lot of their uncertainty comes from not understanding WHY we use some tool and HOW they actually work.

My thinking is that by building a simple app in native Javascript and then in React would help in highlighting the pain points of why such technologies exist in the first place. It would include a dive into DOM and a bit of history of the web.

I'd finish it off by implementing a rudimentary react clone (in <150 lines of code) to demonstrate how it works and use that once again to recreate the original app.

I'd like to remove some of the magic out of the tech stack, peel back the curtain to show the wizard behind.

This should help the newcomers into FE overcome some of that imposter syndrome and give them enough meta knowledge to continue on their path to senior devs. I feel like understanding the wider context is paramount for the growth of an engineer into a proper craftsman.

I'm picking React because I'm most experienced with it, but the crux of what I'm trying to show is applicable for most of today's frameworks/libs.

It's a bit meta, supplementing the plethora of tutorials and courses that get newcomers up to speed to build stuff while glazing over the motivation for why.

Would you be interested in that type of content?

Can you think of some must-haves that would help you or would have helped you on your journey?

1. How the Internet Works for Developers - Pt 1 - Overview & Frontend

2. How the Internet Works for Developers - Pt 2 - Servers & Scaling

3. DNS Explained

4. An overview of HTTP

5. HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know - Part 1

6. https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/http-the-protocol-every-web-developer-must-know-part-2--net-31155

7. REST API concepts and examples

Hi everyone -

I've been on the sub for a little while and been working with HTML/CSS for a few years. Just got into Javascript 2 months ago, and I've made my very first web app.

It's a Student Report Generator (as I work as a teacher and this takes a lot of time!) and I'm really proud of it. I'm currently learning React so that I can re-think the user experience, but I learned A LOT making this interation of it.

Thanks to everyone on here, your help has been invaluable!

Wow. I'm so proud of myself! In January of this year I started making my way through both freeCodeCamp and The Odin Project. I also bought this course after seeing someone recommend it. I was progressing through TOP and fCC and doing other things until April 11th, which is the day I officially started this course. Between then and now I have been making my way through the course and continuing on other random projects. There have also been times where work got in the way of me doing any programming, and needing to take mental breaks and focusing on myself for a few days.

But now today I can say for the first time I have officially fully completed any JS course. In the beginning of the course I took a lot of notes and did a lot of studying and practicing what I learned. When I got around to the array section where I learned about array methods I stopped taking notes and decided to just code along. When I got to the forkify section I did have some difficulty. I did understand most of the coding, but a lot of things Jonas did was confusing to me. The biggest hurdle being, this is the first time Jonas ever used multiple JS folders to organize his code, and I had a kind of difficult time wrapping my head around why certain functions went inside certain folders, but I know with more time and practice it will make more sense to me.

Now the real fun begins. I want to start making more projects. I've tried making bigger projects in the past but always failed at them and went back to tutorials. I need to hone my skills and get better with using arrays, async, Promises, APIs and more intermediate stuff, that way I never have to go back to following a tutorial again.

I have designed many small projects already, like a calculator, BMI calculator, a todo, a weather app, a simple budget app and more, but I have never done anything bigger than that.

If anyone has any recommendations of projects I can look into starting, I'd love to hear them! The more challenging the better.

Apologies. I originally intended to make this post with just a few sentences but my excitement got the best of me. I made myself my own promise and told myself that this is the last year I will ever work in retail. And now that I have completed this course, I can now work on creating a portfolio and make that promise come true for myself.

Hey everyone first time posting here. I’ve been teaching myself web development for the past year or so and finally created something that I thought might be useful to other people!

While creating a portfolio website I tried looking for a good, simple mockup generator to show off the other websites I’ve created. After much searching I couldn’t find any good, easy, free option so I decided to create my own! You can use it to create mockups for your website or app. Check it out and let me know any thoughts or bugs you notice!

Website Mockup Generator

I use the chrome dev tools on my breaks and lunch to brush up on my JavaScript; think syntax, testing, and leetcode questions.

Usually this isn’t an issue, as no one has bothered to be concerned in the past two years.

Recently however, I’ve had a new manager seem very concerned that I was going to break something or do something malicious in the dev tools and asked if I could reach out to corporate to seek “authorization” to use the dev tools.

Is this a valid concern? Should I be asking IT if I can use the dev tools on work computers?

TL;DR: a manager is scared I use chrome dev tools at work, is this valid?

Edit: I work in retail, I am working towards switching to tech