Web Developer Roadmap (2024) - Everything is Changing
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00:00 Top 4 changes in web dev
02:38 Sponsor AppMySite
03:58 Fundamentals
04:30 HTML
04:36 CSS
05:50 JavaScript (ES6+)
08:00 Frontend
08:16 React
11:53 TypeScript
12:27 Backend / Fullstack
12:44 Next.js
15:50 Next.js vs Remix vs Astro
16:23 Separate backend
17:10 Node.js
17:29 PHP
17:39 Python
17:55 Java
18:01 Ruby
18:03 Go
18:10 Databases
18:19 ORM's
19:24 Hosted db services
19:57 Ecosystem
20:10 Shadcn UI
21:39 Zod
22:08 React Hook Form
22:36 Framer Motion
22:45 Authentication
23:14 Payments
23:39 Hosting
23:59 Git & GitHub
24:07 Mobile apps?
24:23 Diagram link
#webdevelopment #programming #coding #reactjs #nextjs
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lmao this is too real bro
what do you propose ?
what do you mean by this?
Roadmap - Logic / Choose a Language / Choose your FrameWork / Go Work as UberDriver. Good Luck Son.
FOR JUNIOR DEVS: Do not learn new stuff all tthe time. Focus on something. React + Node backed? Good. Next? Good. Prisma? Good. SQL? Good. Just pick, focus and stop being biased by videos like this. Don't believe in miniatures like this video has - this is not true. New stuff will arrive each month ut this does not mean that you need to drop everything and run for a new.
I agree. This video is nonsense. This approach to learning is like chasing your tail for the money,it's not sustainable.
Thanks saved me. Sticking to react
@@Yashhh02 The video mentions React as part of its path.
I have 10 years experience with front-end, mainly Angular. I have been unemployed for 9 months. In this time I have learnt React, Next, Nest and a slew of other stuff. In all, I have taken a look at 85% of this and worked heavily with 65% of it. And yet, I remain unemployed. I don't think it matters what you learn, unless it's on the job.
is the market that bad or are u just selective with the job? just curious about the struggles because i feel like mid-senior level jobs are plenty
This is a you problem I think. Are you not even getting any interviews?
Sydney market. 100+ applicants for many jobs. Very few angular jobs advertised. I have started getting React interviews but muscle memory isn't great for tech tests. When it comes to years of React experience, I answer less than 1 year commercially, despite my broad web frontend / SPA / Agile / typescript etc experience. I'd have to lie about commercial React. I'm 54 years old with a solid CV. I wonder how much is about me, the market, and on-paper experience. I'm a pretty good dev, playing with lots of ideas and tech, busting with motivation, but probs have to sell up and change career, at least for a while. Was selective for a while but no longer nor is salary an issue. Thanks for asking
Learn backend
@@randomfellow1483 my thoughts exactly. something you can hang your hat on.
Your simplicity of explaining give me a big idea of how function work
As a newcomer to React/Next, this is the most helpful video I've seen to help ppl catch up with the technological frontier.
I actually did focus exactly on these plus graqhQL, trpc and react-native. Glad I did! keep up the good content.
I love the way you're explaining difficult concepts in an easy and understandable ways, explaining the core of them not forgetting about advantages and disadvantages. That's why I've bought your React+Next.js course, I'm not a newbee in React, but some concepts are still needed to be improved, so that's why I chose you! :) Good luck with your chanel, I'm a big fan of it! ❤
Awesome, enjoy! :)
I love your speaking pace and style, I found your videos very easy to understand and I understood difficult concepts very easily. More power to you, ❤
Same!
started my journey in may last year. glad to know that i am on the exact path as shown in video.
same
Hello, one aspect worth noting is that the ongoing updates to frameworks such as React signify its enduring strength and relevance in the field.
I think no have made a video this clearly. Excellent roadmap and I am currently learning nextjs and building a ecommerce app. so excited.
This is exactly what I needed at this point in my web dev journey. Thank you!
Awesome vid, Wesley. Looking forward for the next vid!
Stay tuned! :)
Speaking of shadcn, as a jr self taugh dev and who absolutely love your teaching methodolgy and overall aesthetic, I mostly only am hip to shadcn due to the modals. Though i tried the other day wraping the dialog overlay into a motion function to get some animation but gosh i couldn't figure it out. I then took a stab at trying to build my own modals and even using a global state manangement library (zustand), couldnt get the classNames to set fixed positioning and margin on the body and root divs in next14 app router. I know it's possible but i am still tinkering with learning how to be creative with server and interactive components. But gosh i am loving NextUI and whole bunch. I am surprised that i don't see as much hype on youtube as i do with aceternity and shadcn. Aceternity to me is a very raunchy situation though. and shadcn is so crisp! NextUI is a fine hybrid Thanks again for the superb Content, Wesly :)
What an awesome video, I've been in tech and web dev for 30 for years and this was a brilliant state of the union snapshot. Thanks for the video!!
It weirdly seems the Roadmap tailor made exactly for me at exactly the time I needed it....thanks man....and thanks universe for conspiring for my success
KZhead's algo imho
GOD
Actually, this roadmap fits perfectly with his paid course :)
Thanks big Bro! Started on this journey last week.
backend developer for the last 7 years (Spring) with some front end experience from college that's quite rusty. looking to up my skills. your video here was well worth the 25 min watch. will be checking out your course possibly.
Hey man, I really like your tutorials, but i was wondering maybe you could showcase some basic crud operations with the syncfusion scheduler, because their documentation is kinda lacking in that area
It's interesting because, just by observing what is what, some puzzles in my head have started to come together.
Fantastic tutorial, Extremely helpful, I was more or less thinking of the same thing and this is what i have done. I am building my own framework with Spring Boot backend and a React front-end. I am contemplating Vite VS Next, But for Form validation, I can easily do that in React,
I think JS in backend is just wrong. So does Nextjs. I recommend Vite against Next.
Świetne rady, dzięki!
Really helpful video, thank you for making such a concise overview of the roadmap. I have a request - could you make a tutorial on implementing NextAuth and best practices with authentication in NextJS. Thanks.
Thank you for the update.
This is 100% Great Content, I'm 100% agree with you.
what about saas? for my case, the router/page frame structure of nextjs is confilicted against my requirement(the frame structure of login page and dashboard), so I used react-router and basically wrote everything manually - not using any framework.
great roadmap, but Isn't this relying too much in Vercel and nextjs?, I know that putting more things could be overwhelming, but what about other options for deploying, like using AWS S3 for deploying static websites, or AWS RDS for databases, or google cloud, asure options. And how to test everything, test a nextjs app for exemple. Idk if this goes out of scope of an web developer and more in a devops direction, but I feel that there's things lacking.
Thank you very much for this! I'd like to know your opinion on GraphQL. Isn't it relevant to include in the roadmap?
Nice list. The only thing not mentioned was testing that would be worthwhile to know (Cypress, Playwright, React Test Library, Jest, etc), but other than that I feel like your were spot on.
Good point
The booking api, every flight is a json with around 500 lines of information, probably more, so typescript is mandatory so you can use all the type definitions.. imagine moving so much data without autocomplete... . I say booking but not exactly them, I have worked with another similar api.
great topic , thanks 👍
My name is Wesley and I’m learning WebDev too 🙂 thanks for the helpful video!
I’m team Kotlin with Ktor for backend, and actually use it for apps and frontend too. Kotlin is the new JavaScript, you can use it everywhere since it’s Multiplatform (even compiles to JavaScript)
As someone who's been struggling with imposter syndrome during my learning it felt good to say to myself " hey I actually already know most of that" (or at least the basics).
Thank you for that. I never understood when to use next.js and when to setup a separate backend with express. Became pretty clear now. If you want any kind of feedback: don’t tell people they might earn 10k a month. It all depends on overall economy. And times are getting tougher. Your courses are great. Thank you for that. But learning software development is only one step on the way to become financially successful. Stay authentic. That‘s what makes your courses great stuff. ❤
after watching the first video, I am watching this and subscribed. you are awesome.
Also: trpc for typesafe apis, Convex for database service, Clerk for auth 👌
Dziękuję :)
just came to say, that tell me when JavaScript developers learn to keep the things simple, and stop changing the framework, or the way you write your JavaScript, at backend we have been using the same frameworks over years
True!
Thats a long wait then
lol i'm a backend guy looking to up my skills in front end and it's true. seems like front-end is always shifting with "what's most popular" being what's "important" but javascript, html, css always come back as the core that they just keep morphing around. that said i am happy to see some (react, angular) starting to settle and grow more tenure.
Front-end hasn't changed. If you want to do things the way people did in the 2000s you can, using vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript. However, if you want the new, more performant, more capable technology you will have to learn and adapt to it. Though I understand a backend language such as Python makes things easier as new technology is built on top of it as packages/modules and not an entire framework, however, the Python of today is very different from the Python of the 2000s as well.
Very nice video, very well explained and very good road map , loved it all what you said and you make amazing content thank you !!
Thanks! Enjoy
For React, subtle shoutouts need to go to Remix. Definitely a solid Next competitor especially if they add support for Server Components
Any good intro or course that you could please point me to?
Unfortunately, there are very few Remix-oriented jobs
Nice video. Consider looking into Ionic/Capacitor a bit more, their ecosystem exploded exponentially over the last couple of years.
Will take a look, thanks! :)
Its really easy i have build an website in 4 weeks with user roles, thats ran an specific webscrapping task with file upload and Download. But i have never see so Bad documentation as on NextJS
i prefer var since it's easier to type. and don't often re-assign variables. when you code a certain way, varl/let/const no longer matters
I actually spent 5 years to learn and effectively use all the stuff you've mentioned in daily basis. I have 4 prod projects that are in various field of expertises and also actively employeed all this time from start.. I earn less than 1.5k USD a month. So what you earn(you've mentioned 10k) depends on where you work and where you live. 😅
Love your JS course. Would you mind making a video on SolidJS?
Great idea
Yep alot have change but im still maintaining component base react…
Great Video Thanks😇
Nice video, thanks!
I'm starting to religiously follow this roadmap for couple of months and I'll get back once I do complete all the steps.
Well then you can expect " Next JS ❌" "Ups JXS ✅" The naked truth is that, every second new and newer framework and libraries pop somewhere around our mighty Earth !
I am currently learning ReactJS, will start NextJS once my React foundations are little strong. Also experimenting a with Tailwind CSS on the side
Just stop and go try other stuff my friend. Dont waste your time
@@vitorac412 why?
@@vitorac412wdym?
@@vitorac412what does that mean? Go do something else outside web dev?
thank you
Thanks 🎉
thanks man , i always watch your vides
I appreciate that, thanks
Thank you ByteGrad.
may i know when did u get all of this new informations?? maybe platforms that i could use like twitter or something. i wanna stay updated for front end dev
Man i know all of these. Now how to earn xD
Start doing things rather than commenting here😅
@@stranger_life_ak4720that's the only hard thing, how do we find clients? How do we get internship, that's something I struggle the most
@@santra528 bro played uno reverse here 😂
skill issue
@softrn
Web deving will hit a huge high in allowing people to characterize their own artistic talent and styling intricacies, giving a new era of lifeless AI a bit of hope for us mere mortals competing with machines.
Feeling good to see how much i have been progressed. Im been learning web development from q4 2022 and full time from may 2023. I have learnt more than 90% of the things mentioned in the video. I love react/nextjs ecosystem with typescript and tailwind.
Can u help me? I wanna know how i can do it? I had done pre medical but did not get into med clg. I had a lot of pressure and i had to something so i wanna know.
@@user-ks8eu5yq5f yeah definitely. can you explain what you are looking to do in web development, and how much you know about programming.
You make great videos man.
Sir please,reply on when we use next js as frontend and node js as backend end how we can manage our middleware code for protecting routes because I send token in response of login api and i got it in client components and middleware run on server how I can pass token to server please explain this topic
i think docker would be an addition to this list at this point
Great video thanks. I’ve been a salesforce developer for 12 years, basically Java but with many parts of the stack taken care of (database, hosting, styling etc..). I want to build web apps now. Do you think a react + next.js stack is a good place to start or would svelte and svelte kit be better? Looking to build great web apps without getting too lost in tech details. Thanks again 🙏
Interesting. I'm biased and would prefer React & Next.js (that's what's my channel about) but there are people that love Svelte.
@@ByteGrad awesome thanks. Maybe I’ll try both and see. React has so much support and info around it. I’ll def be watching more of your videos. Great content
dropping next js in 2024
Well explained
I am already close In one year i have covered almost 70% of the things
But only getting close to 1k
How about learning atom state management library nowdays?? What's your opinion?
.NET C# not even mentioned as Backend framework!
Sorry about that, .NET is alive and well. Will upvote this comment for visibility
(all us .net devs getting paid be like "sure kids, go learn all that alphabet soup stuff lol")
Using strapi or CMS as a backend , isn’t better idea?
I’m still seeing on majority of job descriptions React is more common than Next. Typescript definitely should be learned. The triad html, css, JavaScript for sure. Node for sure and an ORM definitely. But, I’m not seeing any other serious movement towards those other technologies on job listings it’s far less common.
I agree with most of these but not Nexjs, tried it a few times and it is good for simple websites but not for web applications. Tanstack router, and code based routing is so much better particularly if you have complex routes and dynamic applications where SEO isn't a concern. No one seems to talk about the fact that server based routing means the provider needs to pay for CPU compute, good for vercel. It's thin vs fat client all over again why would you want to not use the clients CPU?
Bro thank you so much for this vidoe
No problem
learn java or c# you will get job very quickly 90% of the entreprise code is in those two language just ignore node and nextjs are not used in banks and big finance company.
what you think you about Vue and Nuxt.Js ?
Bootstrap isn't mentioned here??? Is there some specific reason or tailwind is the answer? Thanks
There are new frameworks each month. Pick a stack and master it. Then you can learn new stuff, which works 90% the same way anyway.
Why prisma and drizzle? I dont understand this hype. They doesnt support DSL in migrations. I think that typeorm(for typescript) and sequelize(for js, but also has some limited support for typescript) are much better.
What about HTMX? i dont want to learn js frameworks like react and next.js, can i do it with java spring and htmx and some extra js when need it?
should i become specialist or generalist on these day
the timing of this video can not be understated
I khnew backend is deep but why we learn all of this ? Just learn django,php or java.
Why don't I just use Webflow with its available "apps"? What can this multi library, hand coded approach offer in an advantage? Thanks.
I guess that's the beginner tech stack so you're ready for internship or junior position? :)
How to earn ? Could u just elaborate on these more like getting job ?or getting client from where?
same lol
Yes, will make a dedicated video on this
@@ByteGrad thank you so much, really looking forward to it!!! That's the biggest bug in our life at the moment 😅
@ByteGrad waiting for the video.
Whoever become a software developer and complains about learning they are doomed to failure, the best part about SD is learning
I have been working with next professionally for the last year, And while I get how it's helpful, professionally, I have come to really dislike it. It's highly opinionated extremely inflexible, And only good what it's good at. I've been converting an app from next to react router and create video app. And holy crap, I can't begin to tell you how much nicer the developer experience is! Personally, If I got to choose the tech stack for a company I would go with either plane react or remix.run.
Yeah, the hey days of Next.js are over. Still gets a lot of attention though.
I’ve been studying frontend about 3 years whilst working 60-70hr weeks. I’ve only just started picking up backend after spending the last few months doing react/next. I went with C# instead of PHP, did I make a mistake? 😅 I only started C# this week, and I was going to try PHP and also Python, to see which one I’d continue with.. does it matter which one I pick?
I'm coming to the web development world with a Data Scientist background and I'd argue Python is one of the best languages for backend because there are lots of packages that handle pretty much everything you can imagine, so you don't have to build them yourself. For example, Streamlit is perfect for quickly prototyping data React applications. The only downside is that Python is not a language built with distributed computing and performance as the core concern. When people prioritize these things I've heard they use Rust or Elixir, for example.
@@gppsoftware thanks! 😅
First question you should ask yourself is what do you want to do? Build websites, build mobile apps, build games etc? Then choose your toolset accordingly.
@@carolin9876 appreciate that, definitely websites/webapps. Never been bothered by game dev or mobile dev.
you are da best
HTML,CSS, SQL, JS, react, nextjs = 10k/mo?
(all of us MS stack devs to the competition: "yeah.. go learn all of that stuff! Lol")
Hi i completed frontend with react js now I want to dive in backend which I should prefer a node, express js or NExt. Js
Devin
Amazing
Remix is the framework
Where and how do cloud services fit into all this?
What if you learned all these, How do you do freelancing with this? no fiverr or upwork.
does Next,js is framework?
i know this tech i am not getting jobs as fresher in india for web dev what to do give some suggestions please?
What about HTMX?