HTML and CSS
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds semantic, maintainable, responsive document and presentation layers.
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Software development
Frontend Engineer
Builds accessible, secure, performant web interfaces across browsers and devices.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 9
- Published coverage
- 9
- Relevant courses
- 38
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Web platform
4 capabilities
JavaScript and TypeScript
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Implements browser applications with robust language and type-system practices.
Course coverage
Browser platform
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands rendering, events, networking, storage, and compatibility.
Accessibility
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs interfaces that work with assistive technology and diverse inputs.
Course coverage
02
Frontend quality
5 capabilities
Frontend architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Structures components, state, data flow, and application boundaries.
Frontend testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Verifies components, integrations, and user journeys.
Web performance
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Measures and improves loading, rendering, and interaction latency.
Course coverage
Web security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Prevents browser and application-layer vulnerabilities.
Course coverage
AI-assisted development
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Uses AI coding assistants and agentic tools to accelerate development while verifying and owning their output.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Accessibility Testing and Auditing
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Design SystemsFree
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- Desktop Application Development
- Electron Fundamentals
- End-to-End Testing
- Frontend Performance Budgets and Tooling
- GitHub Copilot
- Goose
- Integration TestingFree
- OpenAI Codex CLI
- OWASP Top 10
- Progressive Web Applications
- Software Internationalization and Localization
- Test Automation
- Test-Driven Development
- TypeScript Fundamentals
- Unit Testing
- Web Components
- WebSockets and Server-Sent Events
- Windsurf
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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