What languages, frameworks, and libraries would you put on a front-end developer's 2020 "must learn" list?

If you were advising someone getting into front-end development in 2020, what languages, frameworks, and libraries would you put on their "must learn" list?

Comments

[kartik puri]

This will be the tech stack that I will be using and learning in 2020

1. Frontend-: VueJS
2. Frontend UI Framework: Quasar and Vuetify
3. Static Site Generator: Gridsome
4. API deployment: Serverless lambda using python
5. Webiny: Webiny is serverless CMS which also offers serverless API, so in 2020 I am really looking to work on webiny

[G33kNoob]

Currently im done with vue, vuex, mixin, axios
My next target is vue native and vue electron

Then mastering expressjs

[Nikki]

Atomic CSS and tachyons

[Raymond Price]

Must learn

• CSS3/HTML5/ES6, obviously.
  • Particularly including AJAX and responsive design
• Git, also obviously
• At least one of React/Vue/Angular
• TDD, or at least how to do testing in front-end.
• Accessibility, including ARIA and semantic HTML
• At least one state management library, such as Redux/MobX

Strongly recommend

• Typescript
• GraphQL
• At least one CSS preprocessor, such as SASS/LESS
• At least one method of organizing CSS, such as BEM/SMACSS, or CSS framework, such as Bootstrap/Tailwind
• At least one method of styling framework components, such as styled-components.
• WASM
• Server-side rendering/generation, such as Gatsby/NuxtJS

[James Robb]

Yes you can and I plan to turn this into a post in the coming days actually so watch this space!

[Abod]

I really thought it was the post

[Mike]

I would have them learn JQuery, actually. So much of other learning will be based on JQuery since it was so popular for a long time.

[Nikki]

We're still on jQuery where I work. It's sad. We tried moving to Vue and ran into difficulties.

[Mike]

:( Not surprising, sadly. It's really hard to migrate old code and is reallllyyyy expensive for the business. I don't think you are in the minority...

[Swastik Baranwal]

Gatsby, React, JS and TS, Node for Web Dev

Go, Rust, WASM for compiler based

[Thomas Lombart]

• Before diving into frameworks, get comfortable with JavaScript.
• React and Vue are a must for front-end frameworks. If you can learn TypeScript, it's nice too.
• Gatsby is on the rise but I'm not sure you can find lots of opportunities are on the market with it as of today.
• CSS-wise, Tailwind's also on the rise and is really good.

[Shubham Singh]

• React/Vue
• Tailwind
• TypeScript
• JAMStack
• Jest/Cypress
• Next
• Webpack

[rhymes]

• HTML and DOM APIs, the latest versions
• CSS, the latest version and techniques
• JavaScript, the latest version
• fundamentals of accessibility
• fundamentals of HTTP (networking, caching, best practices)
• Choose boring technology but still have a general idea of where the industry is going