The MDN Curriculum provides a structured guide to the essential skills and practices for being a successful front-end developer, along with recommended learning resources.
Last updated: February 2024
About the curriculumDefines the essential skills and knowledge every front-end developer needs for career success and industry relevance.
Created by Mozilla and refined with insights from students, educators, and developers from the broader web community.
Includes learning resource recommendations covering every curriculum topic, helping you become job-ready.
Learn our curriculum with Scrimba's interactive Frontend Developer Career Path.
ModulesDevelop a great attitude towards learning, researching, and collaborating to enhance your chances of success.
Best Practices
Familiarize yourself with your development environment and the tools you'll use to build websites.
Tooling
Understand how the web works at a high level, and the process for creating web technologies.
Web Standards & Semantics
Learn the fundamentals of HTML, the language used to define and structure web content.
Web Standards & Semantics
Dive into the fundamentals of CSS, the language you'll use to style and layout websites.
Styling
Focus on using CSS to style text and apply custom web fonts.
Styling
Learn modern techniques for creating flexible layouts that work on a wide variety of devices.
Styling
Focus on the core JavaScript language and fundamental surrounding topics.
Scripting
Understand the need for universal access to web content and how to write accessible code.
Best Practices
Appreciate basic design theory, how to speak design language, and what makes websites look good.
Best Practices
Understand why version control is necessary, and use GitHub to store code and collaborate with others.
Tooling
Add animations to your toolbox to enhance user experience and perceived performance.
Web Standards & Semantics
Create custom JavaScript objects to gain a deeper understanding of object-oriented programming.
Scripting
Study common WebAPIs in depth to appreciate how WebAPIs work in general.
Scripting
Explore how to create performant, fast-loading websites and enhance perceived performance.
Best Practices
Learn how to protect data from unauthorized access and how to treat user data responsibly.
Best Practices
Explore the need for testing, and learn how to implement common test types.
Best Practices
Study the features of popular JavaScript frameworks, and use them to implement common use cases.
Tooling
Look at popular CSS tooling and understand what code problems they can solve.
Tooling
Understand the purpose and usage of other tooling types commonly found in a web project.
Tooling
How can youboost your employability with the MDNCurriculum?
Learn about research collaboration and other essential soft skills.Balance between modern tooling and long-term best practices.Get access to high-quality recommended resources.Get guidance from trusted voices.
Don't know where toBegin with our "Getting started" and "Core" modules to grasp the essential skills for web development.
Dive deeper with our "Extensions" modules to develop specialized skills.
Our "Soft skills" module, part of "Getting started", offers crucial insights to help you land your job.
Use our modules to guide your teaching, or enroll your students in Scrimba's Frontend Path.
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