What are the skills required for the front end developer?

What are the skills required for the front end developer?

We have talked about front end development in the previous blog,
let me remind you who is the front end developer?
A front end developer is someone who implements web designs through programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

The front end developers work with the design and outlook of the website. you can see the work of a front end developer in the navigation, layouts, and also the way a site looks different from your phone.
Front end development is how the design actually gets implemented on the website. The front end developer is the person who is responsible for the implementation.
In this article, we will talk about what skills are actually required to become a front end developer?

Let's talk about the skills required to become a front end developer.
Before we start front-end developers must keep in mind that the tools and skills used to create the front end of a website are always changing. So developers need to constantly learn and brush up skills in these areas to advance their careers.

Let’s have a look at the top  skills that a front end developer required to become a front end developer:

1. HTML:-HTML is the first thing you need to learn to get started with web development, HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. A markup language is your way of making notes in a digital document that can be distinguished from regular text. HTML  is the key structural component of all websites on the Internet, Web pages cannot exist without HTML.
   
2. CSS-: Now you know HTML, but you may notice that your plain HTML website looks ugly/bad. You need to add style and flavor to your web pages. CSS does just that.CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS and HTML work together, CSS makes your web pages look great, and provides a great user experience to your users. Adding colors, sizing buttons, background images, the responsiveness of your site on desktop and mobile and much more can all be done with CSS. Both of these languages are absolutely essential to being a front end developer.
   
3. JavaScript/JQuery-: With the help of HTML and CSS, you have designed beautiful web pages, but they don’t really do anything and you don't know where does all your business logic live? let me introduced to you another important tool for a front end developer is JavaScript (JS).JavaScript is the brain of your website. If you are trying to implement interactive features on your website such as audio and video, games, scrolling abilities, page animations, JS is the tool you need.JavaScript consists of libraries like jQuery. It is a collection of plugins and extensions that make it faster and easier to use JS on your website.
   
4. CSS And JavaScript Frameworks-: Wait, we already covered CSS and Javascript, right? We did, but they’re both such a big part of front end development that a lot of other skills you will need to become a front end developer.CSS and JavaScript frameworks are collections of CSS or JS files that perform different tasks by providing common functionality. Instead of starting with an empty text document, you start with a code file that has lots of JavaScript present already in it.
   
   Frameworks have their strengths and weaknesses which makes it important to choose the best framework for the type of website you’re building, For example, some JS frameworks are great for building complex user interfaces, while others excel at displaying all of your site’s content. Since you will be using CSS and JS all the time in your web development, and since many projects start with similar style elements and code, knowledge of these frameworks is critical to being an efficient developer.
5. Version Control/Git-: After all your hard work marking up with HTML, styling with CSS, and programming with JS, you’ll have gone through a number of revisions in your development, If something goes wrong along the way the last thing you will want to do is start over from the beginning. Version control is the process of tracking and controlling changes to your source code so this will not happen. It is a tool that you can use to track the changes made previously so that you can go back to a previous version of your work and find out what went wrong without tearing the whole thing down.
   
6. Browser Developer Tools-: Users will ultimately be interfacing with your websites through a web browser. The way your site is rendered by these browsers is going to be a big part of whether your work is successful or not. The modern web browsers come equipped with developer tools for testing and debugging. These tools allow you to test the web pages in the browser itself and finds out how the page is interpreting the code. Browser developer tools usually consist of an inspector and a JavaScript console. The inspector allows you to see what the runtime HTML on your page looks, and also allows you to edit your HTML and CSS and see the changes live as they happen. The JS console allows you to view any errors that occur as the browser tries to execute your JS code.
   
7. Web Performance-: It is important to make sure that your website performs smoothly without any glitch. Web performance defines the amount of time it takes for your site to load. If you’re having problems with performance times there are steps you can take to improve them such as optimizing images and minifying CSS and JavaScript.
   

Conclusion-:
Congratulations on reaching the end of the article! This could be overwhelming🥴 at the start if you are new to front-end development. But, with the basic skills in programming, you will be able to succeed as a front-end web developer.
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