Step up your front-end skills with these 5 resources

It can be hard to break away from tutorials and to start building things, but it's also the single most important thing you can do. Tutorials are great, but they won't help reinforce what you are learning, and won't push you to new levels like actual projects will. So here are some resources to help you get started!

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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:39 - Frontend Mentor
03:50 - Style Stage
06:06 - CSS Battle and CodeWars
07:38 - Frontend Practice
10:01 - Open source

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[kingharji]

literally wonderful video

01:39 - Frontend Mentor (Challenges)
03:50 - Style Stage (Guidlines)
06:06 - CSS Battle and CodeWars (Mastery in CSS)
07:38 - Frontend Practice (Cloning)
10:01 - Open source (Contribution in real projects)

[VeaceslavBARBARII]

A tutorial on how to escape tutorials 😅

[johantchassem]

I love the quote "What you are seeking is also seeking you". This video exactly came in time. Thanks Kevin

[alessandrospiridigliozzi]

This is what I needed! I feel like I (like so many others) have been too eager to learn JS, after CSS, that I haven't made sure I had fully/properly learnt CSS. I have started working on some projects recently and realised that my CSS skills are still not as great as I thought!!!

[goannacs]

Your content feels so comforting. It feels like my journey begins to structure itself and I see some kind of road building that I want to take. I actually am part of codecademy pro and follow the Frontend Career Path - and don't get me wrong. I love it and it helped me to start somewhere. Else I would be so lost. And I have a sense of everything you need and it's easy to just get along. But it's super fast forward and you just have to follow steps and don't really need to think by yourself. There are small projects now and then when you finally have to do things on your own, but this is the moment you realize: shit, I actually don't know what to do. And you don't look up solutions but rather what to do anyway. And that's where I started to look for something beside codecademy (which was recommended by many anyways) and I found some tutorials, articles, videos and so on.

But then I found you.
And oh my...
It's like having found my personal mentor who speaks exact my language and I just understand things all of a sudden.
And by the way. I'm German and I don't speak English very often.
It's just a blessing that I somehow can speak it kinda well and understand most things.
And even though you don't try to speak slow kids English I still feel that you know how to communicate and it makes it so much easier for me.
It may be your pronunciation or the tone? I don't know.
Nevertheless you are my hero for now and I promise you I will sooner or later buy your pro courses. For now I am at some free courses and find video after Video an am just: 🤯

Codecademy tells you what there is.
Kevin tells you what that means.

I'm 30 and I know there is hope to become some kind of developer. It's never too late and having a job that's fun probably is a bigger motivation for me than money.

I just love this stuff but was too shy and scared my whole life to just do something useful.
Instead I spent my day playing games and waiting for my last day on earth. Kinda sad I know 😅
I'm married now and my wife believes in me and that's really helping alot.

I will become someone I always wanted to be.

🙂 Good luck to everyone and stay healthy. Physically and mentally.

[mksk]

I've just recently over 2 months ago started and my journey with frontend and your video is very helpful.

[GoWokeGoBroke]

Kevin, frontendmentor sounds like the thing I was missing. Thanks a lot! I wouldn't have found it if it weren't for you!

[DrnE]

just what i needed. applying for a frontend position coming from a full stack developer

[fahimmahmud]

I found your channel as a random YouTube suggestion entitled "Challenging the CSS king to a CSS battle", may be it was Kyle from Web Dev simplified. And I am so glad that I found you and this video in particular. You seem like a really nice guy and I believe you really ARE a nice guy. Thanks for all the great tips.
Love from Bangladesh.

[mahnewr]

i can't believe how perfectly timed this video showing up in my recommendations was. it's exactly what i needed, thank you

[djordjek]

Another awesome video. That's exactly what I did. I started building projects on Frontend Mentor and I must admit, I became much more confident in my coding skills. I improved them so much. I also used a Frontend Mentor project for my first project where I used Sass and I succeeded and felt great!

Thank you very much Kevin once again for this awesome video.

Practice is everything!

[AdamtheADHDev]

Kevin, you are my yoda. It's like you read my mind with what I am worried about and then create videos that offer a solution immediately. Your channel offers more value than pretty much any paid course I have found. Thank you!

[shenellepeart]

You have perfect timing, This is exactly what I needed. 😃😃😃

[sungjuyea]

So impressed. Usually these kinds of videos 'almost always' contain some ads about the websites or companies the author is running at the moment, but in this video, NONE of such.

[maurolimaok]

I'm still learning Linux + Terminal, prior to coding, but I really like this channel.

[MrJfergs]

I still feel like I need to learn so much, styled components, typescript, graphql, apollo client, redux toolkit..ect. It feels overwhelming to be honest.

[dragonarch]

I am just starting out in front-end game and this appears in my recommendation. Bless you for saving my time looking for resources.

[edoardopitaccio]

For DAYS I have been asking myself: "Ok, what now, how am I going to practice ?". Then I started following your channel and found this video.... Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!!

[LuisHernandez-sovu]

discovering your channel was a miracle for me

[tojo_joseph]

Thank you so much Kevin! May God bless you my friend. I was stuck at the exact point at which you were talking about in the video.