I’m almost done with the front-end part of the course, but then I see some other courses pertaining to front-end, like essential CSS, responsive design, and accessible design. Do you need to go through all of these to actually be decent in front-end? I want to spend a little more time with the backend, API, React, and AI engineering stuff, but I definitely know front-end is important, for sure, if I want to start building my own projects. Can someone help me out with making this decision? So far, I really love learning this. The goal is that I can use this course to become more of a forward-deployed engineer at a startup, as I have more of a product management background
Hey @Krish_Kumar,
I’d say you don’t need to do all the front-end extras before moving on. As long as you feel solid with the basics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and can put together a simple, working UI, you’re in a good place to start exploring backend, APIs, and React.
Stuff like responsive design and accessibility is definitely important in the long run, but you can always circle back and pick those up when you’re building real projects that need them. Since your goal is to work in a startup-type role, having a balance, enough front-end to ship something, plus backend and React so you can build end-to-end, will make you really effective.
So my advice: make sure you’re comfortable with the fundamentals, then go ahead and dive into the backend/React track. You can always loop back to the extra front-end topics later.