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    Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread web developers


    Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

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    Due to a growing influx of questions on this topic, it has been decided to commit a monthly thread dedicated to this topic to reduce the number of repeat posts on this topic. These types of posts will no longer be allowed in the main thread.

    Many of these questions are also addressed in the sub FAQ or may have been asked in previous monthly career threads.

    Subs dedicated to these types of questions include r/cscareerquestions/ for general and opened ended career questions and r/learnprogramming/ for early learning questions.

    A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

    HTML/CSS/JS Bootcamp

    Version control

    Automation

    Front End Frameworks (React/Vue/Etc)

    APIs and CRUD

    Testing (Unit and Integration)

    Common Design Patterns (free ebook)

    You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

    Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

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    Get colors and styles from your database with the db-connect property in CSS!

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    Stack overflow's new copy/paste limit

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    98.css

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    Stackoverflow keyboard - Aprils fool

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    The Mona Lisa made with pure CSS and a single div!!

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    I got a lot of questions about the logo animation for Resoume — Here is how I created it

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    My goodness, capturing a <canvas> spectrogram audio visualization with the MediaRecorder API. Client side music video generation. ����

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    Take a look: A propsed IDE feature to prevent webdev autocomplete flooding

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    https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/120074

    This is a recent feature request in VS Code. It aims to solve the problem of autocomplete suggestions being flooded by aria attributes and event listeners (but also other things outside of web dev). Take a look and give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see it get implemented in the future!

    Update: The issue has now received 20 upvotes in GitHub and has made it into their backlog!

    Disclosure: I made the feature request. This is not an attempt to self-promote. My intention is to share a feature request that you might like to see be implemented.

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    Discussion: Let's talk professional soft skills to get hired and not fired.

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    With all the focus on knowledge, we as professionals, and job seekers often overlook the importance of soft skills in both landing and retaining a job. Soft skills make up a significant part of an employers assessment of you as a candidate, your ability to work on a team, and your ability to be successful in the role. It is never as simple as code.

    After all, the better our soft skills the happier others are to work with us and the more successful we will be in our own careers.

    I am not a soft skills coach nor the Source of Truth on this topic, so I want this to just be a primer for a discussion in the threads.

    TL;DR : What soft skills do you think are important for this profession, and why? Recommend how other devs reading the responses can develop them to be the type of developers that are valued on a team.

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    Auto-updates and VPS for WordPress

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    Hello Redditors,

    In order to avoid double posting I will include both questions in the same post. I sincerely hope that this will not be a problem. That put aside, I consider myself to have somewhat intermediate knowledge when it comes to website hosting. However, as I am about to change my hosting plan I am faced with a hard choice between two options and would be really grateful to hear what you think about it.

    Choice 1) Managed WordPress hosting - So far I have always preferred to turn off the automatic update feature in WordPress. Mainly because I am worried that if a major update is being released and a plugin is not yet updated to the new version, it might stop working and crash the website. However, with the new plan that I was offered the automatic update feature cannot be disabled. That is why I would really appreciate if you can share your opinion on this matter. Am I being paranoid or I have actually a point and auto-updates in some cases may actually be a bad idea?

    Choice 2) Hosting WordPress on VPS - I am aware that this would be the better way to go. However, taken into consideration my limited knowledge and the fact that this would be my first time hosting something on a VPS, I am a little bit afraid to go that way. To my understanding, if I decide to start using a VPS then I have to set up everything on the server side by myself and this is what scares me the most as I am not sure if I can do it properly. Therefore, I would like to ask you how hard is really to use VPS and can my limited server knowledge create potential security vulnerabilities as I migrate my website from shared hosting to a VPS.

    Best regards,

    Wookiee_King

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    I really need help with my project

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    Hi I'm currently stuck on a coding project from the Odin project a to-do list for about a month now. I've tried coding on my own but I got stuck trying to figure out get the task to be assigned a project I gave in at this point and looked up other student solutions I picked a project that was close to what I wanted my project to be. I copied and break it down I understand most of the code written. I stuck on a type error where it says that array called task is undefined but I'm pretty sure I define it. Here is my code.

    https://github.com/rsteward117/TO-DO-List

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    Running Docker containers on a chrome extension

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    Hi there, I'm coding a chrome extensions (mostly HTML, CSS and JS) and I need an application (that runs on Linux) to connect to the internet and feed some data to the extension's JS scripts. On my machine I'm able to setup and run the app in a Docker container smoothly and I'm wondering whether it's possible to incorporate this container into the chrome extension.

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    Where to get SVG graphics commonly used by micro-saas landing pages?

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    Hi,

    What are the resources where I could buy images/svg graphics in the style of almost every landing page of a micro saas? They all follow a similar design regarding svgs.

    Thank you.

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    Vue Portals are AMAZING

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    They really change the game in terms of total control over an application UI with Vue, regardless of supporting architecture.

    For example: We have a NOP commerce core and use Vue + Razor for our UI. The challenge in this is maintaining a state across Razor templates from a single Vue instance - and controlling the DOM outside of the Vue instance scope.

    In walks Portals. You can select any DOM node in the rendered page, even outside of the Vue reactive scope and replace it with a portal target. Then, inject reactive components and content through them. Another cool trick if you dont have a node you can just replace - create and appendChild() a target "dummy node" inside of the parent of where you want the content to "arrive at" and then replace that dummy node with your portal target!

    It's like shooting a cement block across a chasm, then shooting a zipline across the chasm to anchor to the block.

    While I understand Portals are coming to Vue 3, you can use them now with portal-vue

    I have nothing to do with vue-portal other than that is what we are using and it is fantastic.

    Edit: This post is informational for Vue developers running into similar architecture issues or for people that are considering Vue as a solution for their specific problem. It is not a competition. I am 100% positive other frameworks have similar features. I am excited Vue does now too. As will other Vue devs, I am sure.

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    Reverse proxy for a noob

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    I hope this is the right subreddit and if not, I apologize. I'm running 3 web application on my tiny home PC. I'm primarily a Windows guy. I do enough to just have this server running. 2 of the app is running using IIS. The other is Jellyfin based on Kestrel I think, . App1 and App2 has no problem. Both App1 and App2 are practically the same and used together. Jellyfin doesn't use IIS so I can't bind the URL to a port. I think from what other people use, they had it reverse proxy from https://example.com back to the local server http port which run on 8060.

    I would like to know if I can get this achieved through IIS with a URL rewrite? And if so, how?

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    Was your first front end dev experience like this?

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    Hello all, I recently got my first full time role as a junior front end dev and its been an interesting couple days. So, on my first few days I had to pick up react typescript and scss which was not hard because I had prior knowledge of plain react and css, I then had to learn to make and start using re-useable components for transferring figma designs into actual sections of the site(its been over 50+ screens as of now) and I'm starting to feel tired.
    I got this job about a week ago but it feels like I've done such a large amount of work in such a short period of time.
    Is it just me, are my feelings warranted or has anyone had a similar experience?

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    Example of resume that worked? (Junior front-end role)

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    I'm putting together a resume so I can begin applying to a bunch of front-end roles, but most of what I find online seems sort of bogus, or are people asking for critiques. Does anyone have an example of a resume that helped them land a Junior role or even a checklist of things you look for as a recruiter in someone's resume?

    I don't have any experience as a web dev outside of freelancing for an online store (built the entire site with a friend) and making a brochure site for a small tutoring company. These were both paid gigs, so it could be considered professional experience(?), however, I don't have any jobs to include on it outside of some somewhat irrelevant work I've done in my life.

    I guess I'm looking for something that I can follow as a format for my own resume and a list of must-haves, such as skills, experience, interests, etc.

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    Should I just give up ?

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    It's now 8 months since I got a job as a web dev. This is my first job and I am self taught , no cs background. I don't know if it's because I have no cs background and I am self taught but it is really really tough sometimes. Sometimes I feel i don't know anything and I am just trying to survive on day to day basis. Also in my job there is no senior so there is really no one to guide me. I don't know what to do. I am really frustrated now so thought just vent it out here. Even when I go to sleep, there is this constant chit chat going on in my mind related to my work. Is this normal ? So how much time I need to get really good at what I do ? I don't think I can go like this forever.

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    Where should the keys be stored?

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    Where should the encryption keys be stored? In DB, config files or somewhere else?

    And why? What are the pros and cons?

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    Started my first Dev role 2 months ago for an underpaid salary. This morning I was offered a 40% salary increase with another company. I’m conflicted and don’t know what to do.

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    Title has it all.

    I received my first Dev role 2 months ago. The company that I'm currently with is great, with the only downside being that I'm underpaid (which is understandable since this is my first role).

    Furthermore, I interviewed with a company during the same time I'd interviewed with the current company i'm with.

    Said company has reached out to me this morning, offering me a role that would increase my salary by 40% (putting me within market value for a junior dev).

    The role would consist of my same technologies that I'm using at my current company, though at a higher level which would be beneficial in the long run.

    I feel extremely bad leaving my current company hanging after 1 month, especially with them giving me an opportunity with them for my first role.

    I'd really appreciate any advice on which route would be best to take.

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    OG themes for the World Wide Web

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    This website moves your mouse cursor

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    Debug Web Vitals in the field

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    exchangeratesapi.io became paid overnight

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    Was really strange that my currency exchange suddenly stopped working and after a good hour i went to their website its now a paid product. I know I can't complain about something free but overnight and with no alerts on their website gave me a sour taste in my mouth.

    Github Issue

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    Combining Frontend Development with Design, UI/UX as a career?

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    Hi everyone,

    I'm doing web development for 3 years now and consider myself a quite well-rounded frontend dev with little experience in backend development.

    However, I've always been interested in aesthetics, design, UI, and UX and would like to combine them with my frontend skills.

    My question is now, is this a realistic path to chose? Is there a demand for developers who also do the design work? What I've experienced is that most companies separate them into different departments.

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