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Setting up the web development environment

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In this post, you'll learn about the required tools for your web development journey. The two basic tools which are used by every web developer are listed below - 1. A text editor  2. A web browser Visual Studio Code is the text editor that I would recommend to you because it comes with the built in Emmet feature, or else you can also use notepad or any other text editor it's totally based on your choice. For those who came across the word "Emmet" first time, Emmet is the feature for web developers or the coders, which provides snippets and abbreviations while you are typing your code. Moving ahead to the web browser, we need a web browser to see the results or to know what we are building. You can use any web browser but Google chrome is widely used. Both of the software are free and easy to use. You can download them from the links provided - 1. Visual Studio Code ( https://code.visualstudio.com/download ) 2. Google chrome ( https://www.google.com/chrome/ ) Now the ...

Learning web development as a beginner

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Web development is the skill which refers to building websites and deployment on the web. It is further categorized into Front-end development and Back-end development . Front-end development holds the part for the visual representation of a webpage which is interacted by a user directly. HTML, CSS and JavaScript collectively helps in front-end development. Moreover, on the way to become a front-end developer you must learn the frameworks and libraries like Bootstrap, React and Angular. After that, your next step should be to have a good command on GitHub and CI/CD(Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment). This all over will complete your journey of front-end developer. Now, moving towards Back-end development. It basically deals with server-side development and holds databases and architecture for your website. The best way to learn back-end development, is through JavaScript, in my opinion, as we'll get the command over it in our front-end development days. Although if y...