Best way to learn frontend development for backend SWE
So far in my career able to do ok just by doing backend development, but now a days looks like you are expected to be full stack engineer esp in product teams to be impactful. I tried doing basic web dev courses from youtube, udemy but lose interest with those long hour courses. Any suggestions how can someone who didn’t do any FE(don’t know basic html 😀) to pickup UI development? Resources, where to start and how to stay interested to build something from starch. Thanks! TC: 210k
You may just have to suck it up and deal with the long hour courses. If you prefer reading docs, the link below may help https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
I do mainly back end services. It's hard. I wish I did front end. I'm stuck like you though I keep slacking. The Odin project is good though.
HTML then CSS (learn Grid system and Flexbox) After this try to build 1 page portfolio static Website using all the css you learnt (for Computer screens, need not be responsive website) The you can learn Bootstrap to create a responsive website. Then you can learn ReactJs/Angular whichever framework your team/company uses. Then build a weather app using this framework. (Use some external APIs to fetch weather details)
Make a web app for some idea you’re excited about / would use personally
How to pick up the skills needed?
At each step along the way google it. Choose a framework first; probably React.