Expert Learning Path

Your Path to Becoming a Lead / Staff Developer!

Lead developers are who get asked the tough questions. Lydia’s course does precisely this. You’ll answer 30 tough questions across topics ranging from CSS & JS to networking & security.

Understanding asynchronous and functional programming will increase your programming abilities drastically. Will’s style of building an in-depth mental model helps you understand these complex topics.

Your core understanding of JavaScript is at a maximum. Now it’s time to learn how to lead a team of engineers by managing large-scale applications, migrating codebases, and enforcing a high level of code quality.

Make sure your code is fast by diving into how the JavaScript engines and web browsers parse your code.

Performance can also be obtained by understanding the browser’s inner workings. Will builds a robust mental model for UI composition and virtual DOM rendering so you can understand and recreate the reactivity of frameworks in the most performant way.

In the modern UI world, there are hundreds of frameworks and methodologies for building large-scale UI apps. However, most of these libraries and frameworks are based on core principles that recur across them. As UI specialists, we need to understand these fundamentals and how to apply them in building large and complex apps.

There’s a push with new languages that compile to JavaScript, which are born of a functional nature like Elm and PureScript. Learn more about how to apply functional programming principles to JavaScript.

State management is one of the most challenging problems in software engineering. State Machines and State Charts can be fantastic solutions across various environments.

When a developer (including yourself) messes up a repo, which inevitably happens, someone on the team needs to know how to get you out of a pinch! Learn git deeply and never lose your work again.

Software engineers need to understand every attack vector in our applications to keep data secure and avoid costly vulnerabilities. Learning security is about keeping you and your software safe.

You might write high-performance code, but how high-performance is your workflow? Learning to set up projects quickly and be able to say, “my developer setup is better than yours!”.