Essential Frontend Developer Career Skills Specialization

Essential Frontend Developer Career Skills Specialization

Build Robust & Maintainable Frontend Applications. Boost your developer career and learn essential frontend development techniques, deployment strategies, and interview preparation skills.

Instructors: Dylan Israel

What you'll learn

Write clean, maintainable, and testable frontend code.
Create clear and effective documentation with Markdown.
Tackle frontend job interview challenges with confidence.
Deploy applications with Netlify.

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Specialization - 5 course series

Set yourself apart from other junior developers and make your transition into your first developer role seamless and successful.

This Specialization provides you with essential frontend development skills, including writing clean, maintainable code, deploying applications with Netlify, and crafting professional documentation using Markdown. You'll also discover unit testing to ensure code reliability and gain valuable insights into tackling common frontend job interview challenges. This program emphasizes practical, industry-relevant skills to jumpstart your career as a frontend developer.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will work on real-world projects such as deploying a fully functional web application using Netlify, writing clean and reusable code, and creating comprehensive unit tests. These projects will provide opportunities to demonstrate their technical skills in a professional context.

Clean Code Basics: How to Write Maintainable Code

Course 11 hour

What you'll learn

Identify and apply best practices for clean, readable code.
Refactor code to enhance clarity, efficiency, and maintainability.

Learn Markdown

Course 21 hour

What you'll learn

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.

It is used for shorthand HTML for several types of applications including README files, blogs, forums, documentation, messaging and more! Knowledge of Markdown is a vital skill for any developer, but the good news is that it is relatively easy to learn, especially when you’re studying with Scrimba’s interactive platform. In this short but sweet course, you’ll learn the key features of Markdown which will help you to get started in your coding career. Throughout 24 interactive screencasts, you’ll learn how to create headings, paragraphs, text styling, lists, blockquotes, horizontal rules, code blocks, links, emails, tables and more!

Beginner's Guide to Unit Testing

Course 31 hour

What you'll learn

Understand the core concepts of Jasmine testing and its application.
Apply testing strategies, including setting up environments and using spies.
Organize and manage test cases effectively with advanced features like mocks and matchers.

How to deploy with Netlify

Course 445 minutes

What you'll learn

Deploy a React, Vue, or Next.js app in minutes using drop deploy.
Set up Continuous Deployment to keep your projects automatically updated with every code change.
Use Netlify's Deploy Preview feature to review changes before they go live.