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3 Beginner Project Ideas to Get Started on Your Front-End Portfolio

9 min readMar 8, 2022

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You’ve heard it over and over again. Building projects is the BEST (and perhaps only) way to improve your skills, learn the learns and eventually land that highly coveted job in tech.

There are many articles out there with numerous project ideas, and they’re all great and useful. However, sometimes getting so many thrown at you leads to analysis-paralysis, and you don’t end up doing any of them.

I graduated from a front-end bootcamp 2.5years ago and here are three projects I’ve personally built that have helped me land my first job and get to where I am today: Front-end Engineering Lead at a B2B SaaS startup. Each project builds on the former so make sure you have a grasp of the concepts and skills there before moving on to the next one. This article has been packed full of tips and resources to get you on your way!

Read on and let’s get started.

The Three Projects

1. Fully responsive design to website

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Written by Annie 🦄⚡️

Designer // Developer | ENFP-T ♐ | 🌏 Traveller | Optimist 🥛 | Suffers from FOMO & analysis-paralysis