Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019
I was convinced for a while there as I scrolled down that this was a joke. &quot;Good parody!&quot; I thought to myself. Then I realized to my horror this is actually serious.<p>As a web developer since 1997, currently working in both the Rails &amp; JAMstack spaces, I can assure any and all beginners out there you don&#x27;t need to know anything about at least 50% of this stuff, probably closer to 70%.<p>I also deeply resent the notion that you have to &quot;choose a path.&quot; Depending on the task at hand and what I&#x27;m trying to accomplish, I&#x27;m working on the backend, the frontend, and&#x2F;or the devops side. I jump between all of those daily. If your stack, website, or web app is so complicated that you simply have no ability to understand how it&#x27;s built bottom-to-top, back-to-front, and how to deploy it easily, then either (a) you&#x27;re in a <i>massive</i> team at a <i>gigantic</i> software company, or (b) you&#x27;re doing it wrong!