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The Complete Junior to Senior Web Developer Roadmap (2024)

Step-by-step roadmap to go from Junior Developer to Senior Developer. You'll learn all the technical and non-technical skills you need to become a Senior Web Developer in 2024!

60 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Andrei Neagoie
Last updated: October 2024

Course overview

This course is your step-by-step roadmap to becoming an admired and respected Senior Developer. You'll learn the most in-demand skills and topics that you need to know to get ahead in 2024 and become a top level developer. We guarantee you won't find a course out there that is as comprehensive, up-to-date, and better quality.

What you'll learn

  • Learn the skills that will allow you to get hired in these roles: Web Developer, Software Developer, Front End Developer, Javascript Developer, or Full-Stack Developer
  • How to improve the performance of any web application (Code Splitting, Load Balancing, Caching, Code Optimizations, and much more)
  • Learn the technologies that are being used behind-the-scenes at the biggest tech companies
  • Server Side Rendering vs. Client Side Rendering
  • Become a top 10% Developer by learning advanced topics most courses don't cover
  • Implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, proper security for your company and make your boss happy
  • Have a full featured image recognition app to put onto your portfolio that is guaranteed to wow any employer
  • Create a Progressive Web App
  • How to lead technical projects as a Senior Developer
  • Testing: write all kinds of tests and learn about all the testing tools you can use to write better software
  • Webpack and Parcel, SSH, Docker, AWS, Sessions and JWT

This is the course you've been looking for if you want to break out from being a Junior Developer, level up your skills, and earn a higher salary.

This is the follow-up course to Andrei's extremely popular and top rated coding bootcamp.

You'll get the exact steps and learn all of the most in-demand technical skills that you need to know to go from Junior to becoming a Senior Developer this year.

And the results speak for themselves.

Graduates of this course and Zero To Mastery are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

They are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world.

This can be you.

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you will learn how to become a Senior Developer from an industry expert that has actual real-world experience working for top companies in both Silicon Valley and Toronto.

Why should you take this advanced programming course?

Andrei here... give me 5 minutes of your time to explain why I created this course.

No course like this exists out there because this is a really difficult topic to teach and to combine all of the technologies we cover into one course is a long and hard process.

That's partially why most courses are just targeted to beginners.

But I don't think people should settle for being a Junior Developer.

This is the hardest work I've ever done in my life. It took me months to plan, months to film, months to edit, and years of experience to create.

By the end of this course you will have a fully functioning image recognition app to show off in your portfolio.

And you'll be able to add all of the skillsets listed below to your resume, impress your boss, and ace your next interview.

You will be taken from absolute zero to knowing how to:

  • Use React and Redux to build complex and large applications
  • Improve performance of any web application (Code Splitting, Load Balancing, Caching, Code Optimizations, and much more)
  • Use SSH on a remote linux server and generate ssh keys
  • Use Webpack and Parcel to set up a project and bundle your files
  • Implement proper security and securing your apps like an expert
  • Use AWS Lambda and Serverless architecture to manage applications that can handle millions of users
  • Use Typescript on a project to have less bugs in your code
  • Write all kinds of tests and learn about all the testing tools you can use to write better software
  • Use Docker and docker compose to create containers for your services
  • Use Sessions and JWT to manage user authentication and authorization
  • Use Redis database for session management and caching
  • Decide when to use Server Side Rendering vs Client Side Rendering for your projects
  • Create a Progressive Web App that works offline like a native mobile app
  • Implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment for your company and make your boss happy

Trust me, some of these may not mean anything to you now but they are the topics and skillsets that ALL Senior Developers know and can use.

Not only will you learn how to do these things, but most importantly, you will deeply understand why they exist and what problems they solve.

Why does that matter?

Because by truly understanding the "why", you can speak intelligently about them in interviews even without a lot of experience using them.

And when asked by your boss, you will be trusted to take the lead on the project and implement them.

Here are 5 things that set this course apart from the rest:

1. Learn only the most in-demand skills for this year.

We won’t be using outdated technologies that a lot of courses online use.

Although still useful, outdated technologies are low-paying and demand for them is decreasing. In this course, you will learn the specific technologies that are the most in-demand in the industry right now.

This includes the tools and technologies used by the biggest tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon etc.

If you are serious about taking your career as a Web Developer to the next level this year, then this course is for you.

Here are the in-demand skills that you will become comfortable using and be able to put on your resume:

  • SSH
  • React
  • Webpack + Parcel + Vite
  • Node.js + Express
  • Front End Performance Optimizations
  • Back End Performance Optimization
  • Progressive Web Apps
  • Typescript
  • Software Testing
  • Server Side Rendering and Client Side Rendering
  • Front End Security Optimizations
  • Back End Security Optimizations
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • Sessions + JWT
  • Amazon Web Services ("AWS")
  • Serverless Architecture
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment

2. You will no longer be a Junior Developer.

The course is designed to level up your skills ABOVE a Junior Developer role. Some of my students who now work at some of the largest tech firms in the world as Senior Developers used this course as their roadmap.

After finishing this course, you will be able to apply for Intermediate and Senior Developer roles. You will no longer be a Junior Developer.

We won't be taking any shortcuts in this course.

3. You'll learn from someone (me 🙋‍♂️) that has actual real-world experience working in Silicon Valley and Toronto.

I have built large-scale applications. I've managed teams of developers. I am not an online marketer or a salesman. I'm a software developer who has worked directly with these technologies.

Since I started teaching my Complete Web Developer Coding Bootcamp, I realized that there are so many courses to help beginners.

My students kept asking me where they could keep learning more advanced topics. There wasn't much available. So I created this course to fill that gap for them.

Unfortunately, most courses out there (that are actually affordable) are:

  • Taught by teachers with no real-world work experience or...
  • Are super long and boring, teaching you outdated topics or things that don't matter to get hired or...
  • Don't give you a clear step-by-step roadmap that pushes you and challenges you, they just make you follow along, watching someone else code... this is useless to you!

There is so much information out there, so many opinions, and so many ways of doing things. Unless you have spent the last few years working with these technologies in a company, you will never fully understand.

This course is the answer to that exact problem.

4. Your time is valuable.

This course is the accumulation of all of my years working in the industry, learning, and teaching programming to thousands of people around the world.

I have gone through literally hundreds of coding books, online tutorials, and bootcamps. I've experienced the frustration of wasting time on incomplete and outdated tutorials.

I've interviewed candidates. I've been interviewed. I know what companies are looking for and what separates senior from junior candidates.

I've done all of this, so that you don't have to. Your time is valuable.

I've condensed only the most important and up-to-date information and the best way to learn it all into a step-by-step roadmap to becoming a superstar Web Developer.

P.S. ~20% of Zero To Mastery students are people currently taking full-tme coding bootcamps (and have spent $8,000+ 👎) or are full-time computer science students. But they are still taking this course and our other Zero To Mastery courses.

I'll let you draw your own conclusion!

5. We have a thriving online community so you really feel like you are part of a classroom and not just watching videos by yourself.

You will have a chance to communicate with fellow students, work on group projects together, and contribute to open source projects. And anytime you have a question, you can ask and get help right away (including from myself).

If you succeed in this course, that is my success as well. Therefore, I will be there every step of the way helping you understand concepts and answering any questions you have.

Active. Thriving. Supportive. Helpful. Friendly. Motivating. Essential.

These are just a few of the words students use to describe the ZTM Developer Community Discord which also happens to be one of the biggest and most active developer communities on Discord.

6. Have fun while learning.

Sounds crazy right?!

Like many online courses, you will be taken through a series of videos and exercises.

But how this course is so different is that we follow a storyline where you are hired by Keiko Corp. A fast-growing tech company that has two products which definitely need some work.

Almost like a video game, in each section of the course, you will solve different problems for Keiko Corp. which mimic real life scenarios you will encounter as a Senior Developer.

Why learn all these topics? Why bother upgrading your skills?

Because in this day and age, just being a Junior Developer won't make you happy.

You want to feel important, smart, and admired at work.

You want to be able to make big decisions.

I'm going to help you get there. I guarantee that by the end of this course, you will be able to grow in your role, have more confidence, earn more respect, and command a higher salary.

When's the best time to get started? Today!

There's never a bad time to learn in-demand skills. But the sooner, the better. So take your first step to becoming a Senior Developer today by joining the ZTM Academy. You'll have a clear roadmap to developing the skills you need to take your career to the next level.

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What you'll build

The best way you learn is by doing. Not just watching endless tutorials. That's why a key part of this course is the real-world projects that you'll get to build. Plus they'll look great on your portfolio.

XSS + CSRF Attacks

XSS + CSRF Attacks

You will use a security sandbox to do your own XSS + CSRF Attacks using a fake image. Get ready for some hacking!

Load Balancer

Load Balancer

Learn to build massively scalable applications by learning to use NGINX to place a load balancer in front of your apps. You will learn to bombard this load balancer with requests to see how it can handle millions of users.

SmartBrain V2 Boost

SmartBrain V2 Boost

This milestone project combines everything you've learned to build a machine learning face detection app with modern authentication and sessions, security improvements, performance enhancements, docker, and more to learn the skills of a Senior Developer.

+ 11 more exciting projects to practice your new skills

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Don't just take our word for it

Our courses and community have helped 1,000s of Zero To Mastery students go from zero to getting hired to levelling up their skills and advancing their careers to new heights.

Rated 4.8/5.0 on TrustPilot by 100s of happy students

Terry Wang

I’ve been offered my first Web Developer job with a fantastic company (Powster)! A big thank you to @AndreiNeagoie for your excellent course, wonderful teaching skills, lovely personality and your great ZTM community.

Terry Wang

Sumit Govil

Definitely recommend this course for any level javascript programmer. Almost all the topics covered in this course are a must know for any senior developer. It bridges the gap between a good and great programmer.

Sumit Govil

One of the most comprehensive and intense courses I've taken. I loved Andrei's teaching style. I now understand the difference between a Jr and Sr Developer and what technologies to use and how to pick the right tool to improve the performance of my apps.

Daniel Buhaianu

Andrés Cruz

Want to be a solid developer? Take this course. Andrei guides you through the core concepts you must to know if you want to take your skills to the next level.

Andrés Cruz

Great course! It definitely goes through a great deal of aspects one would need in the professional world. If you felt overwhelmed when first working as a developer, realizing how many core concepts you were lacking, this course is perfect for you.

Correge

Andreas Börjesson

Having worked as a Software Developer for 5+ years, I still learned a lot. The course pieces together so many aspects of web development into a whole picture. Andrei explains everything well with enthusiasm, making it a lot of fun to follow along.

Andreas Börjesson

Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start learning for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

Introduction

7 lectures

SSH

24 lectures

Performance Part 1

29 lectures

OPTIONAL: React + Redux + Module Bundling

69 lectures

Performance Part 2

40 lectures

Testing

37 lectures

TypeScript

37 lectures

SPA vs Server Side Rendering

23 lectures

Security

26 lectures

Code Analysis

14 lectures

Meet your instructor

Your instructor (Andrei) isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Andrei Neagoie

Hi, I'm Andrei Neagoie!

Andrei, lead instructor of Zero To Mastery Academy, has taught 1,000,000+ students worldwide how to code and get hired. ZTM grads work for world-class companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Tesla, IBM, Facebook, Shopify and many more.

SEE MY BIO & COURSES

Andrei Neagoie

Senior Software Engineer

Frequently asked questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Don't have that? No problem, you'll also get access to Andrei's Complete Web Developer Coding Bootcamp course which will teach you everything you need to know
  • Even if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, completion of Andrei's Coding Bootcamp is a bonus but not necessary

Who is this course for?

  • You loved The Complete Web Developer and want to keep expanding your skills
  • You don't want to be a Junior Web Developer anymore
  • You want to become a Senior Developer and earn a higher salary
  • You want to learn programming best practices and build scalable applications professionally
  • You know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but want to expand your skills and do more
  • You want to start your own business or become a freelancer
  • You want to learn advanced industry skills that will greatly improve your chances of getting hired as a Web Developer this year
  • Students who want to go beyond the basics of all of the "beginner" coding tutorials out there that don't give you real-world practice or the skills you need to actually get promoted and hired as a Senior Developer
  • You want one course to teach you everything in one place from a Senior Developer that has experience working in the industry

Do you provide a certificate of completion?

We definitely do and they are quite nice. You will also be able to add Zero To Mastery Academy to the education section of your LinkedIn profile as well.

Can I use the course projects in my portfolio?

Yes, you’d be crazy not to in our slightly biased opinion! All projects are downloadable and ready to use the minute you join.

Many of our students tell us the projects they built while following along with our courses were what got them interviews and because they built the projects themselves, they could confidently explain and walk through their work during the interview.

You know what that means? Job offer!

Are there subtitles?

Yes! We have high quality subtitles in 11 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, and Japanese.

You can even adjust the text size, color, background and more so that the subtitles are perfect just for you!

Still have more questions about the Academy?

Still have more questions specific to the Academy membership? No problem, we answer some more here.

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