A Look at Front-End Technologies: HTML, PHP, JS

As a front-end developer, you’ll encounter every single one of these front-end technologies. In fact, it’s likely you’ll learn all of these in your first year. MySQL and PHP are the “M” and “P” in the LAMP stack. HTML is arguably the most popular language in the world. Then there’s React, which is taking over front-end work.

This week, we covered the differences between some of the most popular front-end languages and technologies.

HTML vs PHP: Which to Learn First

If you’re just starting out in web development, you might be wondering which to learn first: HTML or PHP. That’s a valid question with an answer that depends on many things, but we recommend starting with HTML and then moving to PHP. Here’s why.

SQL vs MySQL: What's the Difference?

To the uninitiated, MySQL looks like just another flavor of SQL — of which there are many. However, MySQL is an RDBMS; whereas, SQL is a query language. But that only means you should learn them both as an aspiring web developer.

React vs JavaScript: When to Use Each and Why

ReactJS is a simple update to JavaScript. JavaScript is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Front-end developers shouldn’t ask if they’ll learn either React or JavaScript, but when.

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Web development is booming. But the skills required to land these jobs have changed. Employers are now looking for devs who can do it all: front and backend. These are called full-stack developers, and this boot camp covers all the technologies you’ll need to land your first web development job.

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