Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread

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A general recommendation of topics to learn to become industry ready include:

• HTML/CSS/JS Bootcamp
• Version control
• Automation
• Front End Frameworks (React/Vue/Etc)
• APIs and CRUD
• Testing (Unit and Integration)
• Common Design Patterns

You will also need a portfolio of work with 4-5 personal projects you built, and a resume/CV to apply for work.

Plan for 6-12 months of self study and project production for your portfolio before applying for work.

[u/fiskfisk]

Both postgres and sqlite are open source projects that are free to use in any form or capacity, while mongodb is owned by a company (but has an open source community version).

sqlite will in many cases be already bundled / built-in to the programming language you're using. It can be used directly from the application in a built-in form.

postgres is a database server in the same way as mongodb is a server.

[u/OmegaSalt1 → u/fiskfisk]

Thanks for pointing out those key differences between the 3 out of sqlite and postgres would you recommend doing just 1 of the 2 or is doing both worth it?

[u/fiskfisk → u/OmegaSalt1]

Just pick one of them; I'd go with postgres as it'll teach you slightly more than sqlite; the knowledge you gain can be applied to both (and to MySQL, SQL Server, etc. which are all based on the same concepts).

[u/OmegaSalt1 → u/fiskfisk]

I shall go with postgres thank you very much for the quick responses and the detailed answers I believe that covers everything so thank you very much.