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7 Essential Skills To Master Frontend Development.
Here’s a list of skills that can land you a job as a frontend developer.
Why Web Development?
In this digital era, there are more and more companies coming online every day. This means every company needs a website that needs to be developed. These websites are usually developed by web developers. Even now you might be scrolling through Medium on a web browser that was developed by a team of web developers. In this ever-growing digital era, websites play a major role for businesses and even the development of a country. Most of the social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and even YouTube are built by web developers.
Rise of PWAs
Now with the rise of smartphones and having 3.8 billion smartphone users in the year 2021, there is a huge demand for websites.
When smartphones started getting popular in 2007, the websites were mostly powered by internet explorer, and browsing through the web was not a great experience. During that time the smartphones had features like GPS, camera, and other features that were only utilized by the native applications. Native applications are the application built especially for a particular device and that can be installed directly.
Now with the rise of progressive web applications, these PWAs are able to provide the same functionality as that of native applications without adhering to the cut from Google or Apple if the application is on the Play Store or App Store. Hence with the rise of PWAs, the demand for web developers will only increase. If you develop a web application, it will be cross-platform, unlike creating a native application.
1. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
When we speak about web development, the main basics we need to know are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Let’s compare the elements of a website with those of the human body. HTML defines the structure of the webpage, and you can think of it as the skeleton of your body. JavaScript is like the brain, using which you can perform complex operations like playing a video, displaying interactive content, etc. CSS is used to add styles to your webpage…
