JavaScript Web Projects
20 Projects to Build Your Portfolio

that's awesome, good opportunity. I used Udemy courses to a wide extent. If you are going to work on learning JS to be more employable, I'd start with some basic JS course and sort of try to knock it out in a day or two - and quickly move on to something where you have to apply that knowledge. A course like this or this will enable you to practice on small projects and get started building a portfolio over time.

If these projects are feeling easy to you, it may be a sign that you're ready to try a framework. Knowing a framework might be a heavy lift for just 3-4 months but is in the realm of possibility if you take to it quickly. Plenty of React courses on Udemy, I used this one.

Have fun, good luck.

Build something is a great advice indeed, I am planning to build something on my own and I already have a coupple of ideas in mind but since (fortunatly) I am employed right now I do not have the time to start a project from scratch.

I now that they will be a great asset in the future if I'll want to change company or position at the current one but since I still feel the need to improve my outcome at my current job will not be something that I plan to do in the following months.

But I still need to improve right? So how I am planing to do it right now?

The answer is simple: follow the steps that someone else have shared and create some of the "common project" that many other have in their portfolio.

You can take some inspiration searching the web for "javascript/react projects ideas (get you hired)" and build all the project yourself (you'll find plenty of posts with this kind of content, this one is a small example) or you can follow some courses that will show the ins and out of a language/library by creating some projects and once you master each of them you can also build upon and give your twist.

I chose the latter and I bought the following courses:

• 20 React Apps from Chris on Code
• 20 JS projects to build your portfolio of Andrei Neagoie (currently on sale with coupon code JSPLAUNCH)

I am sure that you'll find even more course like that online but since I already studied some content from both instructors I preferred keep learning with them.

HTML and CSS are still the backbone of any FE project but if for now you need to accomplish something I think that the best way to do so is to follow some courses like the ones listed. Then I'll repeat the previous advice, once you got your motivation back keep improving your knowledge of the language and of development in general with some advanced JS, algorythm and data structures with some courses or other materials.

All the best and never stop learning 💪

Lots of ways to go about this.

1) Do a search for "beginning JavaScript projects" or something similar. Here is the top result I found, with 22 ideas:

https://mikkegoes.com/javascript-projects-for-beginners/

2) Sign up for courses that include building projects for a more guided approach. I would only do this for your first project or two. Eventually you want to be making your own mistakes. But it's a decent way to start. Here is a Udemy course I just found:

https://www.udemy.com/course/javascript-web-projects-to-build-your-portfolio-resume/

3) My favorite option is to just ask yourself what you love, what interests you, and build it. You will be more motivated and learn more if it is something you are passionate about. The only thing to be careful of is scope: you are going to tend to bite off more than you can chew. You may end up with some half-finished projects that you aren't satisfied with, and that is fine.

Some projects I built out of passion:

• A score keeper app for offline games
• An app to lookup info about people's elected representatives
• A live-formattable version of Shakespeare's First Folio
• A life simulator with mutating/evolving "meebas"

There are about about 300K Udemy courses on different topics. Of course, not all of them are good. But, from my experience, some courses are of very high quality.

Full stack web development. These courses are excellent for beginners in HTML, CSS, Flexbox, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, etc.

1. Vertex Academy https://www.udemy.com/course/result-oriented-web-developer-course/
2. Angela Yu: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-web-development-bootcamp/

SQL:

1. Vertex Academy (SQL, MySQL) https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-mysql-bootcamp-from-sql-beginner-to-expert/
2. Stephen Grider (SQL, PostgreSQL) https://www.udemy.com/course/sql-and-postgresql/

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JavaScript projects (for those who already know HTML, CSS and JavaScript):

1. https://www.udemy.com/course/the-javascript-course-build-modern-javascript-projects/
2. https://www.udemy.com/course/javascript-web-projects-to-build-your-portfolio-resume/
3. https://www.udemy.com/course/web-projects-with-vanilla-javascript/
4. https://www.udemy.com/course/50-projects-50-days/

React:

1. Maximilian Schwarzmüller https://www.udemy.com/course/react-the-complete-guide-incl-redux/
2. Stephen Grider: https://www.udemy.com/course/react-redux/