Awesome front-end curriculum

A crowdsourced and curated list of material that's considered mandatory curriculum for front-end developers by the community. Pull Requests are welcome.

Table of Contents

• Browsers
• CSS
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Source Control
• Work Pocesses
• Architecture and Patterns
• Testing
• Performance
• Accessibility
• Craftsmanship
• Information Design / User Experience
• Courses/classes
• Handbooks
• Reference documentation

Browsers

• What happens when a browser starts
• What happens when CSS is being interpretated
• What happens when a web page is rendered
• What happens when HTML is parsed

CSS

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HTML

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JavaScript

• Eloquent JavaScript
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
• You don't know JS series
• Exploring ES6

Source Control

• GitHub: The beginner’s guide

Testing

• Test-Driven JavaScript Development
• Accessibility Testing Tools

Accessibility

• The A11y Project
• WebAIM
• Accessibility Wins

Work processes

• Scrum and XP from the trenches

Architecture and Patterns

• JavaScript Patterns
• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

Software craftsmanship

• Clean Code
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Refactoring
• Pragmatic Programmer
• Release It!
• Code Simplicity

Information Design / User Experience

• Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
• Information Dashboard Design
• Show Me The Numbers

Courses/classes

• Udacity Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree
• Front-end masters: Basic Programming with JavaScript

Reference documentation

• MDN: HTML
• MDN: CSS
• MDN: JS

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