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Introduction: Know your Tools

Explore key strategies for mastering your developer tools to build stronger foundations in frontend development. Learn to identify critical skills versus optional ones, understand deployment and security challenges, and gain insight into effective use of Webpack, Babel, Git, and more. This lesson helps you move beyond beginner tutorials and prepare for real-world coding demands.

Demerits of getting productive fast

You skim over a lot in your learning. This is because developer marketing is heavily incentivized to make things look easy. Look how fast you can do X! Look how few lines of code it takes to do Y! It works, and you benefit by getting productive fast.

However, soon enough, you run into problems. Your “Hello World” stops working when ...