Hey, I am learning Full stack development by myself : HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, React.JS, Node.js , Express.js , Mongo DB and some CS theory.

I just learned HTML5 so working on CSS3 right now.

Anyone have advice on picking up Full stack development? I am trying to switch careers to get a developer job since its a growing field. And I am in San Francisco.

Anyone know how to learn the Front end/ full stack skill set to get a coding job? Do I have to learn Algorithms and data structures or should I just know it?

I just started last month.

These are very deep topics. For full stack web dev you really only need to scratch the surface of algorithms and data structures.

I have a few accessible book recommendations, but even these probably shouldn't be a priority for you at this point.

You should have a good grasp of at least javascript before looking into these books

• Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava
  
• Open Data Structures: An Introduction - Pat Morin
  

neetcode has a roadmap of leetcode problems on data structures and algorithms, but the majority of the topics in this list you'll never use if you are building web apps, but they are still good to know if you have time

https://neetcode.io/roadmap

This site also has some good problems to solve if you want to learn about data structures and algorithms.
https://www.hackerrank.com/interview/interview-preparation-kit

Basically you need to learn react with everything within (TS, JS, CSS, HTML)

Start by coding simple apps in it - blog, forum, twitter clone etc

Then do the same with angular and then maybe vue, astro and at least lick a few other libraries. But react is by far most popular

I hate it so much lol

https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/grind75

Here is a good list of leetcode problems. Starting from easy and then gets harder.

I don't do web dev, so I don't have any advice for that.

i think i'd rather get my eyes stabbed out with a diablo 3 engraved pen by jay wilson than touch react or any modern bs library/framework. modern web dev is pure garbage

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on May 11 2024 07:44pm

Yes it is. maybe it's more annoying but at least sites are slower

What was wrong with templates, proper MVC and pure server side generated content

"Modern" frameworks are such an ass. Like how does this make sense



and then complete mix and match of js, html, css... while I was taught for years to properly separate them



This post was edited by nuvo on May 12 2024 02:52am

Yeah, I feel like it just adds unnecessary complexity

I've heard a lot of newer devs grow up learning and using it. So they'll probably be in my position in 15 years saying how the modern web is garbage, while old school react is so simple and easy. 😆 And time marches on..

But for real, glad we both have that view

Here is something I found for front end:

https://www.greatfrontend.com/prepare

Thanks for the sites. Imma be using leetcode to prep for interviews, and a few books. I'll learn full stack for front end jobs and might learn python to be a python developer or something