in this article, we are going to talk about five essential skills you need to and your first Front-End Development Job I am going to give you a (detailed explanation) of languages and tools you need to know as well as a (proper learning path) and (how long it will take you to learn these)

there are so many languages and tools out there like (HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, C++, C#, PYTHON, REACT) if you have been confused and feel overwhelmed, you are not alone trust me, so in this article, we are going to learn clear and solid learning path, so you spend your time on the things that matter the most.

one of the mistakes that a lot of beginners or students make is that they waste so much time jumping from one thing to another and they don't learn anything properly.

when I began learning to code, I switched languages all the time, Don't do that, it makes you feel productive, but in reality, you're just learning the same syntax in different languages. pick one to focus on and build REAL Project with it, that's how you really improve.

coding is one of the broadest industries in the world if you're a developer, you can be working on any range of problems: From (Back-end) to (Front-end) to data science, to mobile, to cloud, and to all the different languages like (JavaScript, C#, or Python) to all the frameworks and tools like WordPress, Express, React, Laravel or Django.

so to become a Front-end developer you need to start from (HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT) these are the fundamental languages of Front-end development.

we use HTML to (structure our web pages) and CSS we use to (make them beautiful) and JAVASCRIPT to (program them).

every webpage on the internet you have seen is built with these three languages so the better you learn and understand these languages and their features the better you will be at Front-end development.

I am a front-end developer so my focus is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, on top of this React is my go-to framework.

Front-End Frameworks

building websites often include a bunch of repetitive tasks, this is where Front-end Frameworks and Libraries come.

A framework or a library comes with a lot of code that we can reuse on our websites so they help us to get the job done faster that's why a lot of companies these days use these popular Frameworks.

these popular frameworks like React Angular or Vue, more accurately React is not Framework it's a library.

The difference between a framework and a library is that:

A framework forces our application into a structure so all applications built with a framework like angular end up having a similar structure.

so as move from one project to another you will see a lot of things are familiar.

A library doesn't force our application into a structure they just provide some code for us to use but some of the distinctions aside all these tools serve the same purpose they help us to build applications faster.

Now you don't need to learn all of these to get started as you move jobs you may need to learn about the other tools. out of these React is the most popular tool it's built by Facebook and is used to build Facebook and Instagram.

whatever language you choose, you'll need to get familiar with the library and frameworks of that language at some point. Frameworks are great because they help you get productive quickly. they make sure you don't have to reinvent the wheel but can use what smart people have built for you.

As a beginner, you need to focus on the fundamentals of your language.

For web development, these are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Whatever happens to the ecosystem in the years to come, these skills aren’t going anywhere.

They are the fundamentals of the web platform, and everything else is built around them.

Having a strong knowledge of these 3 languages will serve you well in the long run, and make learning any new framework much easier.

All of this is not to say that you need to know every single HTML tag before moving to CSS. And you certainly don’t need to learn every single CSS property before starting with JavaScript.

What you need, is to understand the basics of all 3 of them, and how they fit together.

This example is not unique to web development, either.

If you’re a data scientist, having strong Python knowledge will help you adapt to any new number-crunching framework or library that comes out.

You’ll also have the side benefit of being able to transition to multiple other fields if you so choose.

And as a back-end dev, knowing a language like PHP or Ruby in-depth will allow you to quickly learn frameworks like Laravel or Ruby on Rails without sacrificing your flexibility to learn something else down the line

Fundamentals are what will stand the test of time, get good with those and you can always adapt and learn framework on top of them.

Version Control System

version control system we use version control systems to track our project history and work collaboratively with others. that's why you will find it in almost every job description, git this is the most popular version control system in the world and is used in 70% of software development teams.

git is the software for version control it will keep track of previous versions of code, when new code is added to a project, and who has written which parts of the code. git is completely universal in the software industry, I have yet to experience any company or product that does not use Git to manage their code.

Git has a ton of features, which can make it quite complicated. But there’s really only a handful of features you need to know by heart because you’ll be using them every day.

Learn the fundamentals of branches, adding files, committing, and pushing code. The rest can be learned as you need it later.

Finally: Git is the software we use to manage code. This is what we use when we run commands like “git add” and “git commit”. GitHub is a website to store and host code.

This is where we’ll typically “push” our code to share it with other developers. Know the difference!

UI/UX design (Figma)

Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool which is primarily web-based, with additional offline features enabled by desktop applications for macOS and Windows.

The Figma mobile app for Android and iOS allows viewing and interacting with Figma prototypes on real-time mobile devices.

The design tool for frontend developers. Figma is a modern, streamlined design tool that makes the developer handoff process smooth and seamless. Developers now have better access to the designs and have the ability to extract information about typography, redlines, colors, measurement, and more.

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