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beginnerFrontend in 2026
~120h · 6 steps
- 01HTML/CSS/JS basics
- 02TypeScript
- 03React + hooks
- 04Next.js App Router
- 05Tailwind + shadcn
- 06A11y + perf
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Start with what your local market hires for. In 2026 that's overwhelmingly TypeScript + React + Node or Python.
Ship a tiny project every 2 weeks. GitHub graph + a README is worth more than a degree to most hiring managers.
Pick one OSS repo you use and read it weekly. You learn more from prod code than tutorials.
Treat Claude/Cursor like a sharp junior. Pair-program, never copy-paste blind. Ask it to teach you.
Discord, X, IRL meetups. Network = signal. The best jobs never hit LinkedIn.
Boring tech ships product. Save innovation tokens for the 1–2 places it actually wins.