Front End Development Competency 2020

2 min readDec 15, 2020

An individual must work and research upon mentioned areas as per latest front end application development standards:

HTML 5
CSS 3
JavaScript
Typescript
CSS pre-processors
Bootstrap
Browser developer tools
Version control/ GIT.
Having understanding of Usability aspect, providing technological best user experience. So, these are some basic skills that every front-end developer possess
Angular 5:n
Karma / Jasmine
Gulp
Task Runners
Node JS — Intermediate level
We must spend time to gain the mindset which we are looking for in areas like:
performance optimization approaches, with or without lazy loading
deep level impact analysis for component consumption across platform,
configurable solutions,
reusability approach,
Scalability
Consistency
Why AOT?
Why Change detection? How ?
** how to consume should be made simpler for all documents
HMR
Webpack in-depth
NodeJS
Firebase
Angular Cli in-depth
HMR concepts
Objective oriented programming
SQL Lite
MongoDb
No SQL
NPM
Package management
Typescript

Understanding front-end framework
Understanding of Messaging architecture
Supply chain life cycle understanding is crucial
Good to have Understanding .Net Business logic
Front-end .ts code development & integration
Front-end .html code integration, development support will be provided in the form of component (.ts & .html)
Setting up basic UI structure and framework for each team / modules / documents
Act as a support person with having constant guidance from the SME on the floor in front-end development
Browser compatibility issues
Any new UI development
Creation of UI in the form of components (HTML + behavior development)
Front-End Architecture with Micro-front End concepts
CI / CD process Front end development

How to be “The One” on tech-floor:

Be an awesome Web Engineer, do a lot of research on current trends and technologies. Join communities that will help you acquire more concepts. Get to know what worked for some developers and what failed them.
Being a developer / web engineer is not being a designer so you need to be careful in what you acquire. The art of reading is a skill that all front-end developers should have.
Read articles, guides, download e-books, subscribe to newsletters and make sure you get all the knowledge you require.
At the end, as a front-end developer you need to know performance testing and QA. Even the most professional developers acquire skills each day; so don’t ever stop reading.