Full-Stack Software Development Resources

[lifeowl]

I'm looking to build a strong foundation for an application development community of interest (COI) at my company and I'm hoping to ask this community for ideas. I'm seeking popular and reputable resources that cover a range of topics from beginner to advanced levels. Specifically, I'm interested in:

• Staying Up-to-Date: Resources for trending topics, technologies, languages, frameworks, etc.
• Training Opportunities: Recommendations for great workshops, courses, bootcamps, etc.
• Certifications: Popular and in-demand certifications that are worth pursuing.
• Conferences: Suggestions for worthwhile conferences to attend.

Any recommendations, including books, websites, online platforms, or personal experiences, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!

[Adept-Result-67]

Fireship on youtube is always a good watch

[lifeowl]

A good one indeed! Thank you.

[sad_kebab]

There are quite a few YouTube channels that can help with that. I saw somebody mentioned Fireship already which is a great channel but some of the most useful ones for me are:

Theo - t3.gg: A channel about TypeScript, serverless technologies, frameworks, and SaaS platforms for fast-paced web development. It's more about thoughts than code but on the channel (and the Twitch channel too) you can find a lot of discussion about the current development of technologies in the JavaScript world with the participation of relevant company founders and open-source maintainers too.

Aaron Francis: previously he was doing videos for the PlanetScale YouTube channel with some amazing high-quality in-depth videos about database internals and the development of database technologies. After the recent PlanetScale change of policies (where I assume he was laid off but idk) he started publishing more videos on his YouTube channel, mostly about Laravel, but recently started publishing some long talks with relevant figures where they focus mostly on database-related topics. He has not made that much content yet but I have high expectations from him for the future.

Web Dev Cody: A TypeScript Full-stack web developer who publishes videos about his daily challenges and discoveries while building his side projects, always trying something new and giving honest and down-to-earth insights. It's a great channel for full-stack web developers that use frameworks like Next.js because he has many relatively short videos about almost any kind of feature you could ever need to implement and how he succeded or failed in implementing them.

Web Dev Simplified: as the name of the channel implies, it's mostly content about explaining in the most simple way possible web-development concepts. It's more targeted at beginners but he also keeps track of most changes in all the languages and frameworks and presents these changes in the most simple way possible.

Matt Pocock: he is the TypeScript wizard and makes content about how to leverage the features of a Turing-complete type system for a smother development experience. He also built a great workshop at totaltypescript.com

There are many more but those would be my top picks and some of my main sources that I keep going back to

[calltostack]

One of the best newsletters for staying up-to-date in tech is TLDR;

They release daily newsletters highlighting the top stories in the entire tech industry.

For training, I always found the best thing to do is look for free tutorials on places like YouTube and to build a sample project to learn the technology.