Useful tips to help you create good habits as a web developer

 

To get out of the comfort zone, try to challenge yourself and to grow your working habits to perfection,  below is a summary of the best tips you can come up with every day.

1. Watch a lot of technology

"Technology watch" is the method of keeping up with market trends.

There's not much more to tell, but we think it is the best way to learn by reading. Even if you don't comprehend the whole subject or read about the mysterious stuff the article is talking about, you know it exists. And that's what counts.

A lot of services and tools to help you do this are now available online. You will use them on a daily, weekly or monthly basis as they would be your first source of information and new ideas.

Yet try to stay focused on a subjects similar to the skills you want to practice when you're using content monitoring tools.

2. Search at awesome websites. And unpack them!

Ask yourself: how to create the magic, and try to understand what they used to generate it. New technology, latest repository for JavaScript, unknown CSS property? We live in a world where new things come up every day and we cannot learn as quickly as the technologies grow.

Not only should you try to understand the procedure, but you should also try to explain it. Basically, if you can explain the topic to anyone, it means you have mastered the subject.

You should spend a lot of time by unpacking websites and learning how skilled people designed them. All of these stages will help you integrate various techniques and discover clever ways to build websites.

3. Learn from those with more experience

Usually when you start as a junior in a company, a Lead Dev will direct you to look at your code, schedule your tasks by avoiding you from dropping down the database.

Don't be afraid to ask to learn more. Ask them to show you how to do the fun things they've done on the last website they have released, or the good part they have made life easier for everyone on the development team.

4. NEVER, EVER, forget to comment your code

The point of noting on your code is not just to make it easy for another developer or yourself to understand. It is also a way of thinking about your role before writing it. 

5. Improve your own code: Refactor.

When you depend on all except yourself, you will not be able to progress and gain self-confidence. That's why it is important to go back to and clean your code.

It is even more significant than a new feature being created. So, the next time your project manager asks you what you did during those 5 hours of non-billable work: you can reply that I'm refactoring my code. 

"Code refactoring is a guided technique to improve the web design of a current codebase. Nature is the implementation of a series of small behavioral transformations, each of which is "too small to be worthwhile." However, the accumulative result is quite significant for each of these transformations. By doing them in small steps can cut the risk of introducing errors.

6. Make mistakes.

You don’t have to worry about making mistakes. You will keep making them over and over again, but with time it will become less and less. You never stop learning new things and adapting to changes in new technology, but that's our job's beauty. Every day you learn new things.

CONCLUSION

In a short sentence, if we describe a good web developer, we can conclude that he /she should be able to transform complex issues into simple solutions that bring real value to a company. Technology does not offer anything on its own, but the desire to have good ideas in the environment you are building and your communication skills will make a difference.