r/learnwebdev

https://reallyconfused.co/roadmap/web-dev-career

Often, learning things by yourself is harder than learning them in a formal setting because there is less structure.

Looking back to when we were self-learning web devs, there were nuances involved, it was more uncertain and we often lacked clarity regarding where we were going. We also remember wasting a lot of time spinning our wheels - getting nowhere.

After learning how to navigate these obstacles, we put together a roadmap and wanted to share it. We hope that it will help you break into the tech industry in one year or less, even if you don’t have a degree (or experience)!

We’re super open to feedback too :). If there’s anything impor

As the title says, I began teaching myself webdev back in 2016. I learned HTML/CSS, and once I felt confident enough with that I learned vanilla JS. Then played around with jQuery for a while before settling on React. I've been using React for a few years now, and I've taught myself Node/Express to use on the backend. I've worked with tons of different API's including Discord.js (made two discord bots for my channels), Spotify's API with OAuth2.0 (made a playlist generator), PokeAPI, and a handful more. Over time I've gotten comfortable with Fetch API as well as async/await (which I prefer over fetch), and I've been teaching myself MongoDB lately.

All of this work and effort and I still can