Hi everybody,👋
I am very beginner as a web developper, I have studied during 5 months in an intensive training courses, different langages.
I saw all the basics (HTML/CSS/PHP/JS/JQuery...) and I choose a speciality ReactJs. I finished that course with a disappointed feeling as I feel like "don't know anything". Most of you, are gonna probably tell me that that is the imposture syndrom but I know that this is not 100%. During five months, learning things was very difficult, and I know that they are still a lot of work to do for me, to improve and get things easier.. I can't realise really if I have learnt things during that time, as it's like sometimes, my head is empty...anyway..so in order to continue and improve my skills💪 as I am back at my job which is not developper web but IT support; I decided to do a portfolio, more likely a cv as I haven't got real project done except one at school...
My question is which langages I can use to begin with...I read some post already on Dev and to me, I though it wouldn't be a bad idea to start by the begin, so It could give me more confidence...and using html, css, boostrap(easy responsive), jQuery, what do you think?🤔
Thanks for all your advices😀
Top comments (6)
Thanks Alicia for your point of view ans suggestions👌 I thought about Gatsby instead , as I have many posts in here talking about it. I am gonna check those links you shared and try to make up my mind and channel myself 😀
I recommend the 9 projects you can do to become a frontend master too.
I think the most helpful step to take is to finish small projects (i.e., 2-3 days efforts project). It gives you a sense of why and how to utilize these web technologies.
After you finish your 1st small project (let's say a react project), you may realize what you don't know but curious about. It'll lead you to the next experiment.
Thanks TuWang, yes you right when you said step by step and doing small projects in 2/3 days👍
Okay if it's not imposters syndrome, perhaps is the fact that you just learned 5+ things at once, I say learned, you probably know more than you think, but you need to use those skills to affirm that confidence.
On to the question, you have chosen to write a portfolio, I will give you 2 choices that might fit your skillset today. Backend first, laravel is a great PHP framework which would be a blast to write a 1 - 4 page site, or you could go all JavaScript and use node.js as the backend.
On the front end you like React so use that.
If your building a portfolio I recommend building it with what-ever you want, but build other projects if you can to advertise and learn new things.
After 5 months of studying you should have at least the basics down. I recommend learning more about what choices are available yourself so you have a better context as to what you learned during that time, and have a better idea of what you'd like to learn next. For example, you should know the advantages and disadvantages of using something like React. Also JQuery, React, Node are all just JavaScript, which I recommend sticking to. I don't recommend learning other languages unless you plan on focusing on back-end. There is also languages like TypeScript, but I consider learning TypeScript secondary to core JS skills.
So at this point I'd say there are 3 approaches you could take when it comes to building something on your own for more experience/practice.
Use a framework and get better at it, with more complex problems.
Don't use a framework and learn the bare bones of using JS. I don't believe you would end up using this knowledge directly at work most of the time, but its the kind of stuff that powers what ever you do end up using (SPA frameworks aren't magic)
Dump the front-end and focus on just JavaScript by learning Nodejs. Programming is programming, regardless of where it t is done. In node there is no DOM, so you get to focus more on the data than client-side focused API's.
Thanks Brad! It sounds good approaches 😀 I thought too about NodeJs, but why I am hesitating is because I know that I have got some lack in JS and in my mind, if I have difficulties and that I don't realize that I am not confident on that language, I can't go further... because I might mess up in my head... but with all your advices I can see clearly things, I jus need also to be patient with myself 👍