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Akhil Nalliboina
Akhil Nalliboina

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Front-End Engineer skills to get hired in 2021

Below are the overall required skills that can help you to land a front-end engineer/developer job in 2021. The list includes basic and some advanced skills in front-end development. Kindly note that this is based on my personal research.

  • HTML/CSS
  • CSS Preprocessors
  • Responsive/Mobile Design
  • JavaScript
  • Typescript
  • jQuery library
  • JavaScript Frameworks - (ReactJS/Angular/Vue)
  • Front End Frameworks (Bootstrap/Tailwind)
  • RESTful Services/APIs, GraphQL
  • Basics of the server-side (Node.js, Express, SQL, Database (MongoDB, PostrgreSQL)
  • Server-Side rendering framework - (NextJS/NuxtJS)
  • Testing/Debugging (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, End to End Tests, Load Tests)
  • Git/Version Control
  • Accessibility, Cross-Browser Development
  • SEO, Web Performance
  • Basics of UI/UX Design
  • How to build design system, Storybook
  • Good understanding of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and CI/CD
  • Concepts like Sofware Design, Clean Code, Observability, Manutenabilty

Advantage skills:

  • Any one of Content Management System
  • Hybrid app development using Ionic React
  • Mobile development framework using React Native
  • Desktop development framework using Electron
  • Data visualization using D3.js

For a more comprehensive roadmap, please refer to roadmap.sh/frontend

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Khang

Here's a more comprehensive roadmap with resources for your references:
roadmap.sh/frontend

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imonem

Informative, good job

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Andrew Baisden

As developers we are constantly learning these lists get bigger and bigger each year 😅