Frontend Roadmap

🔰 Beginner Essentials

• What is Frontend Development?

• How the Web Works (Browsers, DNS, Servers)

• HTML Basics (Tags, Forms, Semantics)

• CSS Basics (Selectors, Box Model, Positioning)

• JavaScript Basics (Variables, Functions, Loops)

• DOM Manipulation

• Responsive Design (Media Queries, Flexbox, Grid)

💡 Project Idea: Create a personal portfolio page with HTML/CSS only.

🧠 Core JavaScript Skills

• ES6+ Syntax (let/const, arrow functions, template literals)

• Arrays & Objects

• Functions & Scope

• DOM Events

• Fetch API & Promises

• Error Handling (try/catch)

• JavaScript Modules

⚙️ Developer Tools

• Code Editors (VSCode, WebStorm)

• Browser DevTools

• Version Control with Git

• Package Managers (npm, yarn)

• Linters & Formatters (ESLint, Prettier)

• Basic CLI Usage

🛠️ Frameworks & Libraries

React

• JSX Basics

• Components, Props and State

• useEffect & useState Hooks

• React Router

• Forms in React

• Context API & Redux (State Management)

Vue.js

• Template Syntax & Directives

• Components & Props

• Vue Router

• Vuex Basics

Angular

• TypeScript Basics

• Components & Modules

• Services & Dependency Injection

• Angular Routing

🎨 Styling & Design Systems

• CSS Preprocessors (SASS, SCSS)

• CSS Frameworks (Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS)

• Utility-First CSS (Tailwind)

• Component Libraries (Material UI, Ant Design)

• Responsive & Mobile-First Design

• Accessibility (WCAG Basics, ARIA Roles)

💡 Tip: Make your site accessible from day one — it's not optional.

📦 Build Tools & Tooling

• Module Bundlers (Webpack, Vite, Parcel)

• Transpilers (Babel)

• Task Runners (npm scripts)

• Environment Variables

• Source Maps

• Code Splitting & Lazy Loading

🌐 APIs & Data Handling

• RESTful APIs

• GraphQL Basics

• Consuming APIs with Fetch / Axios

• Error Handling in Fetch

• Async/Await Patterns

• Authentication (Login, JWT)

📁 Projects for Practice

• Weather App using an API

• To-Do List with Local Storage

• Blog or CMS with CRUD operations

• E-commerce Product Page

• Chat App with WebSocket or Firebase

• Movie Search App using TMDB API

🏗️ Try deploying at least one project using Netlify, Vercel or GitHub Pages.

🚀 Advanced Frontend Topics

• Component Design Patterns (HOC, Render Props, Hooks)

• Custom Hooks (React)

• State Management Libraries (Redux, Zustand, Pinia)

• Forms with Validation (Formik, React Hook Form)

• SSR & SSG (Next.js, Nuxt.js)

• Performance Optimization (Lazy loading, Code splitting)

• SEO for SPAs

• Service Workers & PWA Concepts

🧪 Testing

• Unit Testing (Jest, Vitest)

• Component Testing (React Testing Library, Cypress)

• End-to-End Testing (Cypress, Playwright)

• Snapshot Testing

• Mock APIs for Testing

🧩 TypeScript (Optional but Recommended)

• TypeScript Basics (Types, Interfaces, Generics)

• Using TypeScript with React/Vue

• Type Safety in API Calls

• tsconfig.json Configuration

🎯 Interview Prep & System Design

• Common Frontend Interview Questions

• System Design Basics for Frontend

• Building Scalable Component Libraries

• CSS Tricky Scenarios

• JavaScript Puzzles and Challenges

🤝 Community Resources

• Frontend Roadmaps on GitHub

• Awesome Frontend Dev Lists

• Follow Dev Influencers (Fireship, Kevin Powell, etc.)

• Contribute to Open Source (goodfirstissue.dev)