Top 5 Skills To Become a Front-End Engineer

👩🏼‍🏫 5 MUST HAVE SKILLS TO BECOME A FRONTEND ENGINEER ⁣
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✔️ HTML (HyperText Markup Language) ⁣
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You won't find a single frontend developer job listing that doesn't require proficiency on HTML and CSS. ⁣
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The standard markup language used to create web pages. This is the most basic building block you need to develop web apps or websites. ⁣ ⁣
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⁣ ✔️ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) ⁣
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CSS is used to style your HTML document. CSS handles all the styling like fonts, colors, layouts, and everything else needed for the presentation. ⁣
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✔️ JavaScript ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣
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While HTML and CSS add structure and style, JavaScript is what will allow us to control our website and make it fully interactive. It's absolutely important to learn JavaScript if you want to become a Frontend Engineer. ⁣
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✔️UI Library or Framework (React, Vue, Angular) ⁣
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Today's web development world is not complete with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We are in a very competitive market where you need to leverage those skills with a killer Library or Framework to really show employers you qualify for it. As far as which one to pick, I recommend React but you'll be good with whichever one of them. *Be careful when learning Angular since there are many versions and not every company will use the version you will learn*⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣
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✔️ Web Security ⁣
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Knowledge of JWT tokens, REST operations, how to mitigate the chances of cross-site-scripting (XSS), cross-site-request-forgery (CSRF), and other web security protocols will also set you aside from the competition. Why do you need to know this? because as a frontend engineer you might be working with API requests that send authorization tokens and handling sensitive data and without knowledge of web security you can. put yourself in a not desired position. ⁣
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🧠Definitely look into all this that I've mentioned and let me know if you have questions on it! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣
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💬 What are you learning today that will make you a better developer? I want to hear your thoughts below 👇🏼