Tips on Becoming an Advanced Web Developer

Tips on Becoming an Advanced Web Developer

With the growing internet, the profession of web developers has also developed into a profession that has bright prospects. For those of you who have an interest in becoming a web developer, I will share a number of things and technologies that should be learned so that I can become a web developer with high skills.

Basic skills

1. Understand the concept of HTTP

One of the fundamental components in the world of the web is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Understand what processes occur on the server or client side. when we are opening a web page.

2. HTML and CSS

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to form the appearance of a web. And by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we can format the display more easily and of course get better.

3. Javascript

By using Javascript, the web that we create can be more interactive. We can create popup windows, autocomplete, datepicker, and many other things using Javascript.

4. Server Side Programming

Server Side Programming is the most important part of dynamic web programming. In this section there are many choices of programming languages ??that you can learn. Starting from long-circulating languages ??like Perl, Ruby, PHP, JSP, and Python to languages ??like NodeJS, Haskell, Scala, and Go. Currently PHP is still the most popular language because it is easy to learn and implement and there are many references and communities around PHP available on the internet.

5. SQL database

Dynamic web will not be complete if you do not use a Database Management System (DBMS) as a means of storing data. Databases on web applications have many uses such as storing user data, articles, sales transactions, etc. according to the type of web application that is developed.
Popular database programs that you can learn include MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB which are Open Source or Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server which are paid applications.

6. Web Server

Web servers are also an important component. Without a web server, the web application you create will not work. Popular web servers that are widely used include Apache and Nginx. Learn the basic configuration of a web server to support your skills as a web developer. The benefits of mastering these basic configurations include you can make your website link more SEO (Seach Engine Optimization) Friendly.

7. Web Hacking

Learn web hacking tricks such as SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). Why is it necessary? By understanding this, we can prevent hacker attacks on our website.

Mastering the above things well will give you the initial provisions that are useful for you to be able to build a website properly.

Advanced Capability

1. Linux

Without meaning to underestimate the Windows operating system, but in fact most web servers in the world use Linux or other Unix Family as their operating system. Using Linux when carrying out the web development process will familiarize you to always be aware of the importance of uppercase and lowercase letters for file names until the need for folder permission settings is used to save the uploaded file. This can prevent problems that arise when web applications written in Windows are then uploaded to servers that use Linux.

2. Learn the Framework

Frameworks are very important to keep our coding neatly structured and have the same standards especially when web applications are done together. We need to make sure that the coding done by one programmer can still be read and developed or repaired by other programmers. The use of frameworks will also separate logic layers, query databases, and displays so that applications are easier to maintain.

Some popular frameworks are for PHP languages, such as Laravel, Symfony, and Yii. For the Python language there is a framework called Django. Then there's Ruby On Rails for Ruby.

3. Advance Javascript

You also need to learn advanced Javascript like jQuery. By mastering jQuery, you can manipulate your web pages more easily such as making the textfield autocomplete, making certain parts of the page disappear or appear with certain conditions, and so on.
In addition to Javascript libraries like jQuery, you can also learn JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or ReactJS which are currently increasingly popular.

4. Responsive Layout

This is advance CSS. The use of mobile devices is increasing, so we inevitably have to make our web applications also comfortable when opened on the screen of a mobile device. By using responsive layout, our web display will automatically "adjust" to the width of the screen that opens it. Luckily we have Boot