Top 5 Courses to become a Frontend Developer in 2020 - Best of the Lot

Frontend development is one of the critical skills for web developers as there is a lot of demand for programmers with excellent front-end development skills. If you've never experienced client-side web development, learning the plethora of front-end technologies can be difficult, but with proper guidance and choosing the right courses, you can achieve your target. The one thing which I want to tell you that a good knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a must for any front-end developer. Even though we are living in the era of frameworks and libraries, but knowledge of these fundamental technologies cannot be undermined.

I know many web developers who directly start with front-end frameworks like Angular, Bootstrap, React, and Vue without spending much time learning the underlying pillars like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which means they struggle to debug their application and stuck whenever their applications run slow, UI freezes or elements not appearing as they want.

While creating this list of front-end development online courses, I have to keep that in mind that the classes I include not only teach you the latest and most significant front-end framework but also fundamental technologies like HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Most of the courses in this list walk you through the basics of client-side web development by showing you the basics of how to build web pages with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, and jQuery and then showing you what you can do with React, Angular or Vue.js.

I have not included any course on full-stack development or Node.js, but if you want to learn, you can always look back to my earlier list for best free Node.JS courses and best full-stack development courses for beginners.

Top 5  Frontend Web Development Courses for Beginners

Without wasting any more of your time, here is my list of some of the best online training courses and certifications to learn front-end web development for beginners. It includes classes and certifications from Udemy, Coursera, and Pluralsight, which contains sequences from reputed Universities around the world and expert trainers who have real-world experience in building professional websites and mission-critical web applications.

1. The Complete Front-End Web Development Course!

This is one of the best courses to learn Front-end web development as it covers some of the most useful programming languages ad technologies you will need as a front-end web developer like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap!

Created by Joseph Delgadillo and Nick Germaine this course is also very hands-on, and you will start from creating a simple web page using HTML to write a chrome extension using JavaScript.

Talking about social proof, more than 119,530 students have already benefitted from this course, and it also has, on average, 4.3 ratings from close to 3,468 participants, which is phenomenal.

2.Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

This is an excellent free course from Coursera not just to learn Front-end development but also programming fundamentals using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Offered by Duke University this free course will teach you how to write JavaScript programs using functions, for loops, and conditional statements; How to use HTML to construct a web page with paragraphs, divs, images, links, and lists; Add styles to a web page with CSS Ids and classes; and Make a web page interactive with JavaScript commands like alert, onClick, onChange

By the end of the course, you will also create a web page where others can upload their images and apply image filters that you create. Like many other Coursera courses, this one is also free-to-audit, but you need to pay if you need a certificate and access to all quizzes, and programming assignments, which by all means you should do if you appreciate Coursera and value certificates.

I highly recommend this front-end course to beginners and people with no coding/programming experience.

3. The Web Developer Bootcamp

This is one of my favorite courses to learn Web development, and I highly recommend it to frontend developers. It is the only course you need to learn web development - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, and much more. It does not just focus on front-end development but also on the backend and other aspects of web development.

Talking about social proof, 434,580 students have already benefitted from this course, and it has, on average, 4.6 ratings from 126,888 participants, which is phenomenal.

I also a big fan of instructor Colt Steele, whose bootcamp style of teaching really makes learning easier. Having been a bootcamp teacher, he really knows what he is teaching, and he does in no non-sense manner. If you could just buy one course to learn front-end development, but this one.

4.Front End Web Development: Get Started By Joe Eames

One of the critical challenges of front-end development is that it involves many technologies, and they also keep changing, and that's why a strong foundation of the underlying technology is a must.

For the beginner, starting to learn front-end development can be daunting, and that's where this course helps. It will teach you the basics of all of the different aspects of front end web development, and how to hone and keep your skills up to date.

The instructor Shawn Wildermuth is also very detailed and shows you step-by-step how to use client-side web development techniques to create immersive web sites.

5. Front-End Web Development with React

This is another awesome course to learn Web development, particularly front-end web development on Coursera. Unlike previous courses which focus on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript this course focus on React library, a popular Javascript library fro front-end application development, which is vital for a modern web developer

This course also uses JavaScript ES6 for developing React application, which will help you to understand new features of JavaScript from ES6.

The course also touches various aspects of Redux and uses it to develop React-Redux powered applications. You will then also learn how to use Fetch for client-server communication and the use of REST API on the server-side.

The course also provides a quick tour through React animation support and testing rounds off the course. This course is offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and delivered by Jogesh K. Muppala, Associate Professor from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Like other Coursera courses, this is also free to learn, but you need to pay if you need a certificate and access to various assignments and quizzes. Btw, if you don't connect with the instructor and nee a choice, you can also check out Max's React - The Complete Guide course on Udemy, my personal favorite. It covers both Hooks and Redux, along with React Router.

That's all about some of the best online training courses and certifications to become a front-end developer. If you have any other excellent course to learn front-end web development, then feel free to share. As I said, learning frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Bootstrap is important but learning fundamentals like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is even more important and you should prioritize that before jumping with the framework. That will also help in the long run with debugging, troubleshooting and dealing performance issues with the real-world web application.

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P. S. - If you don't mind learning from free resources like free online courses, books, and tutorials then you can also check out my earlier list of 5 free resources to learn web development , in which I have shared some useful free resources for web developers.