Elanngo Madheswaran's Portfolio Website

Introduction

I have been a web developer for more than 1.5 years and I worked on various different stacks like raw html , css then bootstrap and then to js frameworks like react , nextjs and now lastly svelte.

In this article I am going to discuss about my journey through all these and the mistakes so you don't have to do the same. This article is going to be a series so stay on to read the complete series.

Beginning

It is a little ironic but I first learnt the basics of my web front end development from a backend developer , it was one of seniors and he is the leader of my department club so I asked him to guide me through web dev and he suggested to learn basics of html , css and then I met him again and he gave me an assignment.

Bootstrap

He then explained about the need for bootstrap and its basics , he also explained the usage of SASS and he showed a real implementation of this with his own website.

My mistakes in this stage :

I kind of learnt the basics of html without even understanding the core of it. I didn't know about accessibility , colour contrast or basic best practices. Since I learnt just to implement designs I just stayed on it for about 6 months . Those 6 months could have been used for something like projects or just improving myself but I stayed on implementing design after design It made the whole job tiring and repetitive I felt of not doing anything new and lost the motivation to do things.

Possible solutions:

Learn from a front end developer, it is ok to start on your own or any stack developer but it would be better to have someone who is working actively in your own stack so they know what needs to leant and what can be neglected.

Use learning resources like:

These resources helped me to strong my foundation. Once a wise man told in a movie:

When your foundation is strong enough you could build any number of floors above it But when your foundation is inconsistent no matter how string your building floors might be it would collapse at any moment.

Ok lets meet in the next article soon.