Web development technologies you can learn in 2018
As a former recruiter, educator and software engineer I’ve had a lot of conversations with people learning to code. Oftentimes it’s surprising to talk to aspiring engineers that are learning advanced concepts and technologies with only a few months of programming under your belt. For many, the path goes through learning fundamentals like HTML, CSS and Javascript. After mastering the basics many aspiring engineers will dive deeper into object oriented Javascript, ES6 and React.js. From there they may dive deeper into the Node.js ecosystem and drill down interview practice questions. There’s nothing wrong with this career path. You can build almost anything with Javascript and many people have landed incredible jobs this way. In this post I’d like to offer up some alternative technologies you can learn in conjunction with or instead of React.js.
#1 — Laravel
I’m an avid Laravel developer and we use it heavily at scale at Stitch Labs. Laravel is an open source PHP web development framework for building quality apps quickly. I like to think about it as Ruby On Rails for 2018.
Resources for learning:
