Ship it!

Congrats on completing all the components! We covered a lot of material, and it’ll hopefully have been enough for you to start navigating the web landscape on your own. That doesn’t mean you can hop on a plane and start coding your next idea, but you should see a clearer path to building anything you see on the web. You’ve shown a lot of initiative-taking this course, and while this course embodies the spirit of “learn by doing,” I recommend your next step be actually doing.

Build a real idea you have and ship it to real users! It doesn’t have to be innovative or be a perfect idea, but it should be built with the intention that real people will use it. Even if you reinvent the wheel, the journey in building it will teach you so much. Do it while this course is fresh in your mind.

Even if you’re already working as a frontend engineer at a company with a team, I’d argue that building a side project will help you level up faster than months of actual work. When you do something from scratch, you’re getting the full picture, which means having the chance to architect the system and think through things you otherwise wouldn’t get the opportunity to.

In this chapter, I want to give some pointers on building your (possibly first) production app.