HTML and CSS
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds semantic, maintainable, responsive document and presentation layers.
Course coverage
- CSS
- HTML (planned)
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Software development
Frontend Engineer
Builds accessible, secure, performant web interfaces across browsers and devices.
Skill coverage
89%
Course coverage
50%
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
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 19
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
- TypeScript Fundamentals
- JavaScript Fundamentals (planned)
Browser platform
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands rendering, events, networking, storage, and compatibility.
Course coverage
- Browser FundamentalsFree
- Desktop Application Development
- Software Internationalization and Localization
- Web Development Fundamentals, Electron Fundamentals, Progressive Web Applications, WebSockets and Server-Sent Events (planned)
Accessibility
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs interfaces that work with assistive technology and diverse inputs.
Course coverage
- Web Accessibility, Accessibility Testing and Auditing (planned)
02
Frontend quality
5 capabilities
Frontend architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Structures components, state, data flow, and application boundaries.
Course coverage
- Design SystemsFree
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- Angular Fundamentals
- Responsive Web Design, Web Components, Next.js Fundamentals, Nuxt Fundamentals, React Fundamentals, Svelte Fundamentals, Vue Fundamentals (planned)
Frontend testing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Verifies components, integrations, and user journeys.
Course coverage
- Test Automation
- Unit Testing
- End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, Test-Driven Development (planned)
Web performance
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Measures and improves loading, rendering, and interaction latency.
Course coverage
- Web Performance
- Frontend Performance Budgets and Tooling (planned)
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.
- Browser FundamentalsFree
- CSS
- Web Performance
- Web Security
- HTML, JavaScript Fundamentals, Responsive Web Design, Web Accessibility, Web Development Fundamentals (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Design SystemsFree
- Design-to-Development Handoff
- Desktop Application Development
- GitHub Copilot
- Goose
- OpenAI Codex CLI
- OWASP Top 10
- Software Internationalization and Localization
- Test Automation
- TypeScript Fundamentals
- Unit Testing
- Windsurf
- Accessibility Testing and Auditing, Electron Fundamentals, End-to-End Testing, Frontend Performance Budgets and Tooling, Integration Testing, Progressive Web Applications, Test-Driven Development, Web Components, WebSockets and Server-Sent Events (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
- Angular Fundamentals
- Next.js Fundamentals, Nuxt Fundamentals, React Fundamentals, Svelte Fundamentals, Vue Fundamentals (planned)
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