What is a Web Developer

 What’s is a web developer?

Web developer is also called front-end developer. Web development is the process of creating a front-end interface such as a web page or app, and implementing the UI interaction by using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, frameworks, and other solutions.


The main responsibility of web developers is to collaborate with interaction designers, UI designers, and visual designers to create pages in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript-based on the visual design. At the same time, they should maintenance of the completed page and responsible for the optimization of the website performance.


Furthermore, they need to determine whether the interface designed by the UI designer can be implemented through development technology. At the same time, they have to commutate with the back-end developer and determine whether the relevant data can be provided according to the interface content.


In addition, a qualified web developer should have a certain aesthetic ability and can work well with interaction designers and visual designers. Obviously, a good web  developer is a bridge between web design and code.



What skills and tools should a web developer master?

Source code management tools: SVN, CVS, Git, etc;


IDE: WebStorm, Sublime, VS Code, etc. All these are excellent IDE, you can choose and master any one of them;


Front-end development technology: HTML, JavaScript, CSS and so on


Front-end framework: jQuery, React, Bootstrap and so on


In recent years, front-end development is a hot-seat and many young people want to become web developers. Consequently, the skill requirements are getting higher and higher, and of course, the level of web developers’ salary also increased correspondingly.


Web development career planning

Junior web developer focuses on executing development independently and can meet the needs of company business lines, and the ability to use frameworks, libraries, and tools to solve specific business problems. Besides, they required some potential on them.


Senior web developer is able to work alone and have an ability to assist the development team to lead the technical planning and design in the business project.


Web developer expert is generally the leaders of the front-end team. What they do is to provide a whole strategist for the front-end team, and constantly look for "breaking points" in the business and technology fields. At this stage, they manage dozens of web developers.

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