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SAVITA WADJE
SAVITA WADJE

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From MEAN Stack Beginner to Falling in Love with Frontend 💻

Every developer has that one moment where something just clicks. This is mine.

Where it all started

I began my career at a small company as a MEAN stack developer. It was a small team, so you end up touching a bit of everything. That's actually where I got properly introduced to frontend development.

Why frontend hooked me

Honestly? It was the instant feedback. Whatever I wrote, I could see it right there on the browser, immediately. No waiting around, no guessing if it worked. It made me feel like I was actually building something real, not just writing code that disappears into a file somewhere.

That feeling is what made me fall in love with frontend from the start.

Then JavaScript happened 🧠

For a while, I could make things work, but I didn't always know why they worked. That changed once I went deeper into JavaScript.

Suddenly I could actually picture what was happening in the browser. Like, you click one button, and now I could trace it: which event fires, what it triggers, how everything reacts after. That mental picture becoming clear was such a good feeling. Frontend stopped being magic and started making sense.

The path that got me here
Nothing planned, it just happened in this order:

  • HTML for the structure
  • CSS for making it look alive
  • JavaScript for making it behave
  • Frameworks & libraries for building on top of all that

Each one made the next easier to get. I'm glad I didn't skip around.

Still learning, still building

I'm nowhere near done, still figuring things out as I go, still learning new stuff.

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