Tips

The year is almost over but there is still time to leave behind everything that keeps you from being a fantastic developer. Take advantage of these tips to learn a better and more affordable way to develop front-end applications and let these 10 bad practices die along with 2020.

Getting the first job opportunity is not easy, especially when most vacancies ask for previous experience even for internship vacancies. Experience is important, but it is not the only requirement for developer vacancies. There are many other ways to demonstrate capacity. And to help you differentiate yourself from so many other developers I will share with you these 5 ways to contrast yourself in a selection process without having previous experience!

Ensuring a great reading experience is essential to retain our users, after all, we want them to read and consume the content on our website, right? And our role, as front-end developers, is to ensure that all users will have the best experience possible when using our applications. Regardless of whether they are disabled users or not.

Last Friday, I completed one year that I am living in the Netherlands. That was very quick, and it made me very thoughtful about what this whole process of change was like for me, the things I gave up, and the things I gained from all of it.

Pull Requests let you tell others about changes you have pushed to a branch in a repository on GitHub, for example. And when we work in teams, we know that the time it takes to create and review a Pull Request can profoundly impact the productivity of the entire team. This is why I created a "cake recipe" that helps me write my Pull Requests in 10 minutes (and sometimes in less time). And now I will share this knowledge with you.

In this post, I selected the must-have Chrome extensions about accessibility, JS frameworks, style, and more, that every front-end developer should use to increase their productivity and deliver a quality product with a focus on all users.

Last week I did a presentation about career and front-end development in Europe for Faculdade Alfa, a University in Brazil. I talked about the skills needed to become a highly qualified front-end developer and how to improve and raise the level of those skills. But as this presentation is entirely in Brazilian Portuguese, I wrote this post in English with my best tips for you to improve your technical skills.