Writing clean, efficient code is table stakes. It’s the baseline. But what truly elevates a developer’s career and impact are the skills that often aren’t taught in tutorials or measured in coding interviews. These are the meta-skills of software engineering.
Building a website is like building a house. You need three distinct trades to come together to create a functional and beautiful home. For the web, these trades are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Every developer, from absolute beginner to seasoned veteran, has experienced the sheer frustration of being stuck on a bug for hours. You stare at the same lines of code, positive your logic is sound, yet the error persists.
So you have a great app idea. One of the first big decisions you’ll face is: Do we build native apps or use a cross-platform framework? Let’s explore the two main approaches: