Web Development In 2018

Dev Ops

Server Management (configuration management or CM)

Chef

Ansible

Basic Front End

Front End

CSS Tools & Skills

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Learn How Client & Server Talk To Each Other

Frond End Build Tools

Infrastructure Platforms

Javascript Fundamentals

Javascript Frameworks

Docker

Puppet

React.js

CSS Frameworks

RESTful Web Services / GET POST PUT DELETE requests

Modular Javascript

jQuery (not really required anymore)

XHR (AJAX) with Fetch

Querying, Selecting, working with DOM

Precompilers: SASS / PostCSS / LESS / Stylus

Ember.js

Vue

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Digital Ocean (simpler infrastructure)

Salt

CI Pipelines

Unit Testing

JS Skills

Mocha

Service Workers

Functional Programming (rx.js)

ES6 (2015/16/17)

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Angular

Materialize

Bootstrap

CSS Organization

BEM

SMACSS

Atomic (design)

Webpack

State Management

Flux (good to know for history's sake)

Redux

Jest

Karma (run Jest or Mocha in browsers)

Enzyme (react)

Closures, Scope, Context & First-Class Functions

Layouts & Grids (grid and flexbox)

Responsive Images

Responsive Design (media queries)

CSS Animation

Backend

Scripting Languages

Node.js ( express^, hapi^)

Python (django, flask^)

Ruby (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra^)

PHP (Laravel, Lumen^)

Functional Languages

Haskell

Scala

Clojure

Elixir

High-Performance Languages

Go (a.k.a. GoLang)

Rust

Notable Others

Java

C# / .NET

Data

Relational Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Caching: Redis, Cassandra

Document Databases: MongoDB, Couchbase, RethinkDB

Search Engine: ElasticSearch, Solr

Things to Learn for your Language/Framework

Unit/Functional Testing

RESTful API, GraphQL API

Security Best Practices

Authentication/Authorization: OAUTH2 / JWT

Deploying your app (package with Docker, run on a server with Docker installed)

Websockets

ORM / Data Management

Internal solutions

Hosted solutions

CircleCI

Codeship

Jenkins

DroneCI (Docker native YAY)

Docker

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Small Scale: Docker Swarm, Docker Cloud

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Medium Scale: Rancher, Docker Datacenter/Universal Control Plane

Big Scale: Kubernetes, Mesos

AWS Lambda + Serverless

NPM Scripts

Front-End Performance

CSS Grid (you might not need a framework anymore!)

The basics

MobX

Nuxt (Next.js for Vue)

Vuex (Redux-ish for Vue)

Static Type Checkers

Flow

Typescript

Graph Databases: Neo4j, OrientDB

Package Management

Message Brokers (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Kafka)

GitLab

Domain name and DNS basics

Basics

Frameworks

Relay / Apollo for GraphQL (Big, complex)

Next.js or After.js (Server-Side Rendered Apps)

CSS

Glamorous

Emotion

Styled-Components

Using Rx.js & Bacon.js

Publish "website"

Setup webhost and domain
(I recommend hostgator Use Code DROP25PERC, DROP10BUCKS, LETSMAKEADEAL)

Upload HTML/CSS/JS files to website

Job Titles

Web Developer

Frontend Developer

Frontend Engineer

React/Vue/Angular Developer

Javascript Engineer

Job Titles

Software Developer/Engineer/Architect

Node.js/Python/Ruby/PHP/.NET/... Developer/Engineer

DBA (database administrator...Databases are your passion)

Fullstack Engineer / Developer

Platform Engineer/Architect

Backend Developer / Engineer

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