Full Stack Web Development - 1
Front end Web Development
Each time we open a browser we get to see various colorful and well-designed websites. It comes to our subconscious mind, What if I was able to design a website like this?
So it’s time to tell your mind that it is possible and here’s the roadmap to excel yourself in web development.
What is Web Development?
It refers to developing and maintaining web pages, including bits and pieces of concepts like web design, web programming, web publishing, and database management. To understand what is web development it is crucial to know that the three main types of developments are front-end, back-end, and full-stack. Front-end developers are responsible for the parts of a website that people see and interact with, back-end developers are responsible for the behind-the-scenes code that controls how a website loads and runs, and full-stack developers do a bit of everything.
What does a front-end developer do?
A front-end developer design team’s website design and writes the code needed to implement it on the web. A decent front-end web developer will be fluent in at least three programming languages- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Let’s discuss some uses of these three easy-to-learn programming languages.
(i) HTML
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, it is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure(skeleton) of a Web page. The text, images, videos, and many more elements we see in a website are embedded with the help of HTML. It is heavily used to embed the hyperlink within the web pages. A user can easily navigate the web pages and between websites as well, located on different servers.
Also, Once data can be stored in the browser, the developer can think of a strategy to make the application work when a user is disconnected. HTML5 has its application cache mechanism, which would define how the browser manages the offline situation.
(ii) CSS
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It helps us to control the text color, font style, the spacing between paragraphs, sizing of columns, layout designs, and many more. Using CSS you can add new looks to your old HTML documents. It makes website maintenance much easier. It makes the HTML formatting and the corresponding data elements modification easier.
With the help of CSS Flash files, flash elements can be directly placed and handled on the website. There is a presence of inbuilt frameworks and styling sheets in CSS that can be used to handle the situation. The animations can be directly created, and effects can be updated using the frameworks. The required flash files can be processed and implemented to create movies and animation in the web pages with the help of properties.
(iii) JavaScript
JavaScript is one of the most used languages in the market these days. JavaScript is a client scripting language that is used for creating web pages. it supports external applications like PDF documents, running widgets, supporting flash applications, etc. It can also load content into a document whenever the user requires it without even reloading the entire page. JavaScript uses Application Programming Interfaces(APIs) that provide extra powers to the code.
JavaScript also provides the facility of creating presentations as a website. JavaScript provides RevealJS and BespokeJS libraries to build a web-based slide deck.
Not only websites but the use of JavaScript also helps in creating games for leisure. The combination of JavaScript and HTML5 makes JavaScript popular in games development as well. It provides the Ease JS library which provides simple solutions for working with rich graphics.
Front End Developer Skills
Some of the required skills required for front end jobs are listed below:
- UI widgets
- CSS and JavaScript animation
- HTML semantics
- SVG
- Testing
- Wireframing
- SEO
- Content management systems (CMS)
Front End Development Tools
The tools that you must master to build a successful career in front end development are as follows:
- Cacoo
- Coggle
- Postman
- Chrome DevTools Network Panel
- Sublime Text
- Visual Studio Code
- CodePen
- Pug
- Skeleton
- Cerebral
Thank you for reading so far. Hope this blog was helpful.
Here is the step-by-step roadmap for front-end development.
