Is the competition high for web development? Is it hard to get a job as a web developer?

@irene so say if you code alot at home and have alot of experience but you still have never got a job as a developer then the chances aren't high?

There is a high demand so some companies will love to get you on board. Others only want more experienced devs.

@Codex404 that's good to hear. Thank you. I was kinda stressed for a moment that the competition was too high

@faesuu it really depends per company and probably country/region.

@Codex404 true. I live in a pretty big city in the US so the competition might be high. I'll do some research on it.

This is just in terms of development in general as I don't know about the market for web development specifically. I assume it's not much different.

I'm fairly inexperienced - I only have a bachelor's and have only worked with it for about a year. I was still able to pick between jobs when looking and even got second offers from companies I had previously interviewed with after I started my current job.

My impression is that motivation and enthusiasm weighs much more than actual experience and skill. Some of my peers got great jobs using languages they had never used before. One of my friends has no dev related education but landed a job as a web dev fairly easily.

Cherish your GitHub repos so that you have a project portfolio to show.
Having done work for clients will help too.

You should have a broad knowledge but also specialize on one thing that you can do better than most others.

Things to learn: Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, CSS Grid, git, GraphQL, Nodejs/express, One major Js Framework really good, with knowledge of one other. Basic PHP knowledge. Some basic knowledge of webassembly for the future.

@faesuu great site to learn.
www.scrimba.com

also make sure you read the free yearly published frontend dev handbook. to get an overview.
https://frontendmasters.com/books/...

Not a web dev, but a good portfolio should help if it's aligned with current web trends:

1) Gain some graphics skills so that you can upscale images to at least 2000 pixels. Let the browser downscale them to 200 pixels.
2) If that alone doesn't help, there's still video backgrounds.
3) Make sure you don't use browser caching so that users always get up to date stuff.
5) Put everything in a database, even static resources. Plain files are like leaving the socks on the floor.
6) HTML elements are for wussies. Fake everything in JS and make sure you don't test keyboard navigation.
7) Avoid CSS like the plague. JS is so much better.
8) Bonus points for minimalist interfaces where items only reveal on hover. This smartphone trend must be stopped.
9) Show that you know about JS frameworks (except VanillaJS) and use no less than three of them for the same website.
10) If you want to do $$$ enterprise applications, prove that you are able to make your project run only with IE.

@Fast-Nop 😒 stop misguideing 15 year olds

@heyheni what about a backend developer?

@Ganofins You should have a portfolio where you sell your capabilities. Learn how to sell stuff with copy text.

@Fast-Nop Epic 🤣

@faesuu nah you can get a job as a web developer faster than a blink of an eye if you have that much of experience with home projects just publish them at GitHub and you are good with some real life examples.

@Fast-Nop I was taking it seriously... 😂

I come from backend development, and I'm trying to get a job as frontend or full stack.
At least here in Argentina, I've noticed that companies want experienced people, they don't seem to be willing to train new employees.
As an advice: don't waste your time with angular, go straight to react (I made that mistake and now I'm trying to redeem myself 😅)

In the US at least, competition is higher in some areas like NY. Also, depending on the team that will interview and what they offer, you will find it harder/easier.

Web Dev is this century's millenial job, which breaks Into back, front and full stack.
Then front splits also into devs and designers, those two get confused on what they do: some devs think they can design, some designers think they can code.

Next big thing is data, AI,big data.
Even that is being raced against blockchain engineers.

Bottom line is: Don't ask this kind if shitty questions because the answer dies hot matter, find something. You like and something You are good at and figure out how to capitalize on it.