I always felt a bit lost when I was starting on my programming journey.

It's true — it was a very frustrating experience. Maybe you're feeling a little frustrated, too!

I tried several courses and looked into different educational avenues to try and find answers, but most of them only teach theory and don't provide practical, real-world solutions for new developers.

So there are two things I want to share with you.

First, here's a list of resources I've put together that will provide you with a lot of relief as you continue learning.

Second, a list of 36 courses/certifications you can take as a web developer. Link below! -

🚀 https://dev.to/arjuncodess/36-coursescertifications-for-web-developers-19hc

👉 IDE

A coder without a code editor? Haha, no way! Here are some of the best code editors -

• Visual Studio Code
• Atom
• Sublime Text
• Vim
• Eclipse

👉 Illustrations

Proper aesthetics define a website. As a web developer, you have to be careful about the images and icons you use. Here's a list:

• Unsplash, Pexels, Undraw, DrawKit, FreePik, and Pixabay — Free images, photos, and videos
• Loading.io — Free animated, static spinners, progress bar, backgrounds, and much more
• Lottie Files — High-quality, interactive open-source animation files
• Ionicons, icons8, Icones, Flaticon, and IcoFont — Rich resources containing different icons

👉 Tools

Many prominent developers have created excellent, crazy tools to boost development. These are some of them:

• Remove BG — An AI tool to help remove the background of an image
• Clippy — Create complex shapes in CSS using the clip-path property
• Web Code Tools — One Platform with many solutions. Generates box shadows, gradients, meta tags, elements, etc.
• Haikei — Generates unique SVG design assets
• Transform — A polyglot web converter

👉 Challenges

The developer’s life is a life of overcoming challenges (& bugs, haha!). To keep up with trends, we have to challenge ourselves constantly. For that, use:

• CSS Battle — A battleground to improve and tighten CSS skills
• LeetCode, HackerRank, Exercism — Platforms for Data Structure & Algorithms practice
• Frontend Mentor, iCodeThis & Codewell — Develop, practice & compete to code a frontend website from its design file
• freeCodeCamp — Learn and complete projects to achieve certifications for free

👉 Hosting

Want to share your website with the entire world? Check out these free hosting services:

• Vercel
• Netlify
• Glitch
• Codepen
• GitHub Pages
• Firebase
• Supabase

👉 Guides

Valuable cheat sheets, tutorials on tech stuff, and more.

• DevDocs — Pragmatic information on almost every language
• DevHints — Beautiful cheatsheets comprising many languages
• Cheatsheet.wtf — Programming language cheatsheets for beginners
• Roadmap.sh — Roadmaps, guides and other educational content
• 30 Seconds of Code — Provides short code snippets on various languages

🙌 Wrapping Up

The conclusion is that a developer’s path is filled with challenges and opportunities.

Enjoy the ever-improving journey of great web development. Keep coding, stay curious, and don’t shy away from challenges.

The web development journey is ongoing; Enjoy every moment of discovery, innovation and growth.

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