Introduction
Learning Front-End Web Development
Doing front-end web development may require a shift in perspective, as it is a very different animal from development for other platforms. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you are learning.
The browser is a platform.
Perhaps you have done native development for iOS or Android; written server-side code in Ruby or PHP; or built desktop applications for OS X or Windows. As a front-end developer, your code will target the browser – a platform available on nearly every phone, tablet, and personal computer in the world.
Front-end development runs along a spectrum.
At one end of the spectrum is the look and feel of a web page: rounded corners, shadows, colors, fonts, whitespace, ...
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