Learn Web App Development — "Syllabus"

December 08, 2022

I believe that in order to become a successful web application developer, it is important to start with a strong understanding of the fundamentals. This understanding can be applied toward learning more advanced topics and picking up new technologies and is more effective than following the latest tutorials to “Build X using Y framework”.

The most important things to learn

In chronological order

basic shell commands
git
html
css
javascript
http, sockets, basic network topology
serverside programming
sql
security
a currently popular web framework (frontend and backend)
testing
ci/cd
basic design principles

If you’ve made it this far, you should be able to build a web app!

Advanced topics

architecture (frontend and backend)
writing maintainable code
database performance and tuning
devops
typescript
nosql

If you’ve made it this far and have shipped multiple non-trivial web apps, you should be able to get a job as a senior software engineer