REASONS TO BECOME A FRONT-END DEVELOPER

In this era of technology, with the rapid increase in web applications, web sites, online stores, online markets and many more, people are being attracted to the world of coding and programming. Most people are moving towards web development.

However, it is often hard for people that are willing to learn to know where to start. What are the importance of the role they are going for to them and to the society?, waht are the reasons to learn through that path?, are often the questions asked by many. Also, many will be contemplating if becoming a Front-End engineer is the right career choice, while many will be weighing the pros and cons of becoming a front-end web developer.

Well, if you are starting your journey in programming, specifically in Front-end web development, I can tell you this, you are making the right choice. I believe all front-end engineers out there will tell you the same thing. Plus, the profession is always growing and is always in high demand. Which means you have a great job opportunity as a front-end developer.

In this article I will go into details to tell you the reasons to become a front-end developer. However, before moving into the reason we will take a look at who is a front-end developer? and What is the work of a front-end developer?.

• Who Is a Front-End Developer?
• What Is The Work Of a Front-End Developer?

Reasons To Become a Front-End Developer

• Easy To Learn
• Self Comfort
• Develop Problem-Solving Skill
• TeamWork Skills
• Great opportunities
• Self-Learning
• Earn Well From It

Who Is a Front-End Developer

Front-End Developers - are people focusing on the visual elements (client side) of the website or application that users will interact with. They are people who develop the user interface of websites and applications.

What Is The Work Of a Front-End Developer

Front-End Developers - are responsible for determining the structure and design of the web application, building features to improve the user experience, balancing the design and functionality, optimizing the web application for different devices, optimizing the page for speed and scalability, using different markup languages to encode web pages, maintaining brand consistency and writing reusable code.

Easy To Learn

You do not need to go to the best School or the best University to become a front-end developer. In fact you do not need to have any certificate or diploma to become a front-end developer. All you need is determination, a laptop, a good internet connection and a positive spirit for learning. And if by any chance you need a mentor, there are millions of developers out there that are willing to be your mentor. Start your journey by learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript which are easy to learn, and are always in the requirements of hiring companies. Then build few projects and a personal portfolio with the skills you learnt. Next, start adding more skills to improve your standard. You can add things like some framework, database skills and back-end development skills.

Self Comfort

A front-end developer can choose to work as a freelancer, work at a company or create an online business for him or her self. Many companies do allow developers to work remotely, and with this present COVID situation the number of companies developers are working remotely has increased and is still increasing on a daily basis. Meaning as a developer, you can work for a company from anywhere in the world using just your laptop. Being a freelancer is also at your own comfort as a developer, mainly because you are your own "Boss", and can choose when to work and when not to, which projects to work on etc. So, if you are the kind of person that likes to work at your own peace, or the kind of person that does not like the usual 9 to 5, or the kind of person that does not like to be Bossed around, then this career path is for you. Again working from home could work out for you especially during these times when social distancing is in demand.

Develop Problem-Solving Skill

Learning to become a front-end developer, does not just teach you how to code. It also teaches you how to think, how to design, how to contribute to solving problems and how to improve your problem-solving skills . As a front-end developer before you start any project development, you have to think about what you want the project to do, what the project will look like, the layout of the project, the font, the colors and you have to come up with a design you think will be perfect. By doing this you are enhancing your thinking and designing ability. Front-end developers are always contributing to solving the world's problems, they come up with the idea to Solve a real world problems and they create an app, website for solving these problems. As you go through your journey to becoming a front-end developer it is ideal to make contributions to an open-source project as it has a powerful impact on your resume and getting a job.

TeamWork Skills

A company's full functional website requires UX/UI designers, Front-end developers, Back-end developers, DevUp engineers, Testers and many more to be developed. For success to be achieved in any organization a good teamwork is a must. Take Football, Soccer as an example, the team with a great teamwork always wins the game. Same thing applies to App and Web development, each team must work together in harmony to achieve the same goal. Each team must be open to suggestion, correction, review of work as well as feedback from other teams. With teamwork, you will improve your communication skill, as well as strengthen your developing skills. So, if you are planning on working with big companies, your aim should also be to be a good team member as many companies now add being a good team-member as requirements for hiring.

Great opportunities

In the field of front-end development, there is never going to be a shortage of job opportunities. The number of job opportunities available for front-end developers now, is more than the number of front-end developers available for the jobs. Nevertheless, with the daily increase in technologies, mobile devices and the growth of online industries, front-end job opportunities are predicted to be growing more as the day goes by. Front end developers have a massive opportunity ahead as the world becomes more advanced in technology. That is to say if you are a good developer, you will have the liberty to choose the industries you want to work in and to some extent you also have the liberty to choose the kind of work you will be undertaking.

Self-Learning

If you are the kind of person that has a need for creativity, someone that likes to see an immediate result of things they are working on, then this career path is for you. The best part of being a front end developer is that you don't need to go to any special school for it. There are hundreds of online tutorials and online resources for front-end development. And in my own opinion, I believe that no other technology or language has the same amount of tutorials and content on the web as the front end tutorials and content available across the web, and you can learn at your own pace. Many front-end developers are self-taught and many of them are working in big companies. As a front-end developer, self-taught or school-taught, you still need to learn from many documentations to develop your skill. Learning from documentations is a continuous process and is usually self-learning. So you will have a strong grip on self-learning.

Earn Well From It

Front end developers are paid handsomely and have great career prospects. According to Indeed, Front end developer is listed as one of the top 10 highest paying technology jobs with the national average salary of $ 102,092 per year. The salaries of front end developers are also influenced by a lot of factors. Example the average salary for a well experienced developer will be much higher than that of a junior front end developer. Also depending on the job title , job location ,developer's productivity and performance the salaries of a front end developer might also be affected. On the other hand, if a front end developer chooses to become a freelancer, he or she could earn more than the average annual salary and still might be able to work less hours than the developer working in a company. Even if a developer chooses to build and manage his or her own website or app, the profit will still be huge.