https://reallyconfused.co/roadmap/web-dev-career

Often, learning things by yourself is harder than learning them in a formal setting because there is less structure.

Looking back to when we were self-learning web devs, there were nuances involved, it was more uncertain and we often lacked clarity regarding where we were going. We also remember wasting a lot of time spinning our wheels - getting nowhere.

After learning how to navigate these obstacles, we put together a roadmap and wanted to share it. We hope that it will help you break into the tech industry in one year or less, even if you don’t have a degree (or experience)!

We’re super open to feedback too :). If there’s anything important we’ve missed just let us know!

Best regards

As the title says, I began teaching myself webdev back in 2016. I learned HTML/CSS, and once I felt confident enough with that I learned vanilla JS. Then played around with jQuery for a while before settling on React. I've been using React for a few years now, and I've taught myself Node/Express to use on the backend. I've worked with tons of different API's including Discord.js (made two discord bots for my channels), Spotify's API with OAuth2.0 (made a playlist generator), PokeAPI, and a handful more. Over time I've gotten comfortable with Fetch API as well as async/await (which I prefer over fetch), and I've been teaching myself MongoDB lately.

All of this work and effort and I still can't find a company who will hire me. I really don't know what to do and at this point I can't even feel confident as to what to learn next because I've basically collected the skills of an entry level full stack dev and it's still not enough.

Please, I could really use some advice of what to learn/build next or some words of encouragement. I really just need some validation that I didn't waste almost all my free time over the last four years learning a skill that won't even get me a job.

Edit: This is probably the wrong way to share this but here is page one of my resume and here is page two

I am so excited to introduce you to Median Bootcamp, which will eventually be a completely self-paced Coding Bootcamp, all online.

Median Bootcamp

I currently have a full course on HTML and a guide on Python Web-scraping Basics. The CSS course is coming soon.

HTML Full Course

Python Web-scraping Basics

My goal is to have an entire Bootcamp curriculum including projects, project review, career guidance, and certificates. I am so excited to kick this off and I hope you'll check it out.

Edit: After receiving feedback I making a website for it too. I will update this post when it’s ready

Hey devs ✌,
As a developer I am always looking to improve my skills so I made a website to share concise coding concepts and help each others to learn faster.
I would love to get your feedbacks about it, what would you improve, change or remove here as a developer ?

Thank you so much 🙏
👉 https://www.stanza.dev

I've rebuilt the tiny little JS project 8 different ways so far, and will rebuild it in 3 additional ways. I've written about each build (in an 11-part series of writings).

The little project is a random quote machine. I've so far used different data structures and added state management with Redux in previous builds. This week the UI has been built with React using function components (Hooks). The same had been previously done in the series using class components.

Next week the project will be calling an asynchronous endpoint to request the data while still using React Hooks (this was also previously done using class components).

If you are interested, there is also a repo linked in the write up. https://morsewall.com/random-quote-part-8-react-hooks-using-various-front-end-stacks/

And if you are interested in starting the 11-part series from the beginning: https://morsewall.com/random-quote-vanilla-javascript-using-various-front-end-stacks/

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but Google’s answers on this seem kinda vague, so I was hoping you all could elaborate.

Wordpress as a CMS is supposed to automate the backend of the Site, and users build the front end with a site builder, right? So what does that have to do with development? What’s the difference between an amateur using these tools to build a site and web dev using the same tools to do the same thing?

I get that you can add custom css and js, but isn’t that just regular web dev with some of the work automated? Is a Wordpress developer just a web dev that has learned their way around Wordpress’s UI? When a dev sells services as a “Wordpress dev” aren’t they basically saying “I can use this tool on your behalf, and I can make it do more than you could because I know HTML/CSS/JS”? Or am I missing something?