How Much HTML, CSS, & JavaScript Is Enough? | Realistic Expectations 

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I am a UI designer and I send Devs Figma files but I still made sure to learn HTML and CSS so that I create designs that are actually possible to build

As someone who is about 18months along my journey - this is an important message. JS is a big brickwall after you come out of HTML then CSS. It is simple to pick up the basics but this is really the first part of becoming a programmer. Secondly, doing tutorials will help a bit but don't go overboard. Nearly everyone hits a moment when they start learning and they sit down to do something alone after watching endless tutorials and just go BLANK. Just get started on solving simple problems in JS, Google and practice and you will be better off than watching lots of tutorials. Also JSON is literally "Javascript Object Notation" 😉

thank you, this video really eased some of my worries. I love the straight to the point conclusion at the end. I have been learning but haven’t actually built a website from start to finish

I’m from graphic design starting to learn web dev. This is very insightful. Thank you for this, Chris!

Dope video… was right on time for the phase I’m in. I appreciate this!

It’s never enough. Just as the doctor has to expand his knowledge constantly so must a programmer. Turning into my 16th year as a full stack dev and still learning new frameworks, new ways of deploying both front end, application end and sql end code. Life is dynamic so things always change

this video was incredibly helpful I'm very grateful, I struggle with constantly learning and not applying it, as well has going hard on mastering HTML and CSS and it burned me out to a point now I'm back at coding again and this is an amazing new perspective thank you!

Hi Chris, just found your video on this topic; which I was contemplating on and made me worry my ass off before applying to anything because I keep feeling inadequate... but you made it clear as a map and I too overlooked that about CSS (you probably won't do much design but you'll need to translate). But the tip on JS is super, thank you again!

Great video! Some key points were highlighted that I hadn't heard anyone else discuss. Thank you!

This video is right on time. Transitioning into a front end dev role. Although I'll be using Sass instead of CSS. Once in get into that then I'll pick up JS. Even though it's been several years my 1st language I was introduced to was Java which exposed me to OO programming so objects and arrays aren't completely foreign to me.

Chris, you are such a sweetheart :) Thank you for sharing your experience and giving us great tips!

Hey man, I really enjoy your content. They are incredibly self motivating. I just started my dev journey and also documenting it on RU-vid. Thanks!

Oh man Chris, I remembered your first video about this topic back when you were filming inside your car that your boss kept challenging you to the point where you need to rewrite again the same code but less and still does the same thing. I always appreciate your hardwork sharing all these knowledge in public through youtube. I never regret subscribing to you! Hope I land that first front end developer job! Thank you Chris!

Been waiting for another video from you, man you inspire me alot 🤞

You have encouraged me to learn tailwind for 2023 and onward. Thanks Chris!

Loved the video, i'd love if u could make a video telling how a realistic frontend and backend interview works. Personally that could help me a lot, cuz i've been getting ready to it.

As I just backtracked on a contract because I was worrying about the css so much, I’m glad this video appeared!! I love writing JavaScript code but know I have to add frameworks and such.

I really like your videos! Most times I kind of just let it play while i do other tasks then go back & really sit down to watch them when I have time 😊

Based on my many job interviews, learning how to use Object Oriented Programming and APIs are some the most important topics for any language. JavaScript and Python are two of the most important coding languages. HTML and CSS are easy and the tip of the iceberg.

as always, thanks chris! im in javascript now and every time i felt stuck and discourage, i always watch your videos and it gives me a boost to learn again

Wow i love this kind of friendly content when u can chill and learn it's like a mini roadmap.. Thanks for the tips

Your spot on on the terminology being super important, also because when you don't know it you don't know what to search to find what you need. I am frontender learning backend and SQL and find my biggest challenge not knowing the technical terms especially in SQL which makes it difficult to find what I need, that's always one of the biggest challenges when learning something new. But with experience you will start to ask is it possible to do this and this which makes it a bit easier, for new people another challenge is not knowing whats possible and when and how to apply that.

I have been watching you ever since I got into the game, keep up the good work

Thanks for the video Chris. I strongly agree with you here. Been learning front-end for about a month now. Last week I stopped mid-lesson and thought to my self I haven't learned anything. I could crank out solutions when they ask step-by-step but I hardly knew what they were referring to or how I even got there 10 steps ago. Understanding terminology and framework is key here. Anyone can mimic an action. Takes an actual thought to get somewhere on your own.

Thanks man, this was my biggest confusion about css you just solved it . I always thought I need to master CSS .

Thank you, that cleared a lot of smoke. Liked and subsribed!

Thanks for this video. More encouragement to continue

I've only just started my coding journey. This video is a gold mine! Thank you.

Great to hear your thoughts on the above! Keep it up

Thnx Chris , u really are adding immense value to the beginners in coding community . Now i have a small website to show somebody.😊

This video was basically Chris Sean talking to me. I just got off a coding bootcamp learnt HTML CSS, Python and PHP, built a few projects but after a while everything seemed a bit abstract to me. Now I'm learning JavaScript on my own and I've never felt more comfortable learning a programming language, even the other languages are beginning to make a lot of sense in how similar their syntaxes are. I'll be building some projects soon as I continue to learn other JS frameworks and libraries. Thanks for always coming through, Sean.

Thanks man, Sweet and Simple and direct to the point, Appreciate

I appreciate the content. I've learned that everything can be learned and nothing is as hard as it seems. Just be consistent, put in the time, implement what you learn and find good learning tools (books, udemy, youtube, mentor, etc) and you'll be fine.

Basics of CSS and HTML are so simple to learn and there are so many tools to help that even spending a month learning it is too long. The money is knowing how to actually code effectively and efficiently. Functionality takes precedence over aesthetics in coding. Aesthetics will come with more familiarity, but functionality can make or literally break an app or website... This channel motivated me about 5 years ago and now developing for over 4 years its cool to come back and see the new crop of developers being motivated the way I was.

This video just came at the right time, thank you, I was lost, thank you again, I'm studying for a junior job, and I was spending so much time only in CSS

Really helpful Chris. Thanks so much.

Great Information Man, Thank You soo much. ♥

Thank you for the information, you are always helpful.

This video is absolutely great! I’m new to this field and am super anxious to learn but I just don’t know where to start because there’s so much to do and no obvious way points. But this video really really helps. Thank you for your time and effort!

I really enjoyed this video. I've been on a coding journey for over a month now, diving into HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL right from the start. I think you're right-the best way to learn is by doing. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of code that makes no sense at all. I began to understand a bit more after testing each piece of code on my own website project. Good luck to everyone on this path. I would also recommend spending time with people who have a similar lifestyle, or at least having a friend in this field. It helps to learn much quicker when your everyday conversations with friends are also about coding quite a bit.

I’m just completing my boot camp having learned HTML, CSS, WordPress, JavaScript and React. I will say that after 6 months and doing mini projects to keep my skills sharp as I job hunt, HTML and CSS are def the easy part now. JavaScript was the most widely used language in 2020, but it does get overwhelming when you sit down to do a tutorial. I’m waiting to get to that point where everything just clicks in JavaScript.

I was always scared to tackle JS. As a senior CIS student our 4000 lvl courses required JS. I am so happy for that because it made me learn it and now every day it has only gotten easier.

This info is important to people who get stuck regularly .. I learn on the go and practice as well as implement and fail and adjust .. it’s a skill In itself to be able to figure out what to do when you’re lost

Thank you so much for this, I am now a Front - end developer and have been following your advise.

God bless you Chris Sean this is a mind opener

Chris thank you for this video. I have been stuck on CSS for a few weeks thinking I should not move forward without understanding everything about it. This has given me valable insight to help me continue my coding journey without getting unnecessarily hung-up on one language. I appreciate you

I feel you on what you're saying. The hardest part for me is just passing the coding exams that tend to be WAY harder than the actual code you're actually going to be using on the day to day basis. I think that the coding evaluations should be more realistic.

I completely agree with you.. Thank you for this video

i really appreciate this video im a 16 year old home schooled kid thats been stressing over every tiny thing when it came to programming and i've olmost lost the love i once had for it because of how hard its gotten but this video made a lot of things easier for me so thank you very much you dont understand how much this has helped me

I am a UI/UX Designer, I had to invest the time myself to learn HTML and CSS, because I believe it will help inform my design decisions on engineering constraints

one of the most "nourishing" content I have come across. thanks for the effort

Thank you Chris. You are a hero✨

This is Lane :) Thanks for having me on Chris, it was a blast to chat

I never liked any video on RU-vid before but this video, make me likes your video and also following you. Congratulations bro! 😊

LITERALLY HELPFUL DUDE;

Really appreciate the positivity you show to people like me who may be in their early 30's and are trying to switch careers paths. So many other youtubers I have watched to get info for what to study and practice have been nothing but fear mongers that ultimately tell beginners like myself that its a waste of time to do coding bootcamps or that the industry is over saturated. Yet they are in the industry and proclaim they love their job. For me, I am literally just starting out and cant afford to go back to college to get a cs degree. Bootcamp is on the table though, but have been more than slightly discouraged due to other youtubers have said. Thanks for providing a seamlessly unbiased outlook, it is refreshing to feel like I "Can" achieve this. I will definitely be checking out more of your videos.

This is reallyyy helpful 💗💗thank u!!!

That really Helps dude. Gracias!

The programming field is really strange. Busted my ass for the past year to learn html, css js & react by myself. Created multiple projects from scratch all by myself, applied to dozens of companies and got rejected by all of them in favor of students with college diplomas. And now, I got a job offer to work in flutter for a guy who has multiple small companies and wants to branch out in the it field. Sounds really strange that he would pick a self-taught with no professional experience to do the job, but hey, can't really refuse lol. He's a programmer as well, and I guess he saw my desire to learn or something.

Thanks. This did more than helped because I would have just wasted another extra time focusing on html and CSS and that would have being way too excessive. Moving to Javascript right away

I completely agree with everything in this video especially tailwind over vanilla css! I just learning tailwind about a month ago and it’s been a god send for front-end developers! Also, one thing I’ll mention for the newbie devs out there. PLEASE, don’t go memorizing any code in any of the languages of frameworks. I feel into that imposter syndrome of thinking about set me back 4 years of my learning were in just diving into becoming a mid developer. So, versus memorize code just do exactly what Chris Sean said just Google or RU-vid your answer and then move on if you understood the concept of that copy and paste code you added into your project. That mindset will get you to becoming a great junior dev in 6-1 year time easily. 😀

thank you very much, thank you is the first terminology i learned from here, again, thank you

Thank you! I just spent way too much trying to master CSS and I feel like I still need to spend more time. But after this I will stop. I'm gonna focus on other stuff now.

Great videos! They’ve been helpful

Bro you just made my day I spent way too much time in css.you're right i am not a designer.thanks for this video. i will focus on javascript and react.

This was very freeing, thanks!!!!!!

Thanks for that amazing video chris

It's been a long time since I've seen one of your videos. I dipped after the videos felt like the same old "make six figures in 3-6 months". I'm happy to see that you are making really high quality videos these days and the intro ads aren't as long 😉. I wish you the best!

Thanks for this video, i was feeling overwhelmed recently about learning and how much i needed to know but this video gave me clarity thanks alot 🤝

Thank you for this!

Very helpful and makes sense thanks!!

I'm my experience you don't need to know everything. Even for JavaScript. Everything you learn has a few simple bricks that are used to build complex structures. For me HTML = Grouping things together CSS = Learn the display property and you've got 90% of what you'll be using. JS = Learn about datatypes and their methods and as well as the DOM. Pay special attention to Arrays and their methods. This knowledge is enough to get you to do the most important thing of all. Build projects. Do this and you're on your way to great things.

As a designer i think it’s important to know html/css and a small amount of JavaScript so you know the design can be coded, although I recall the days when I would do handcoded frontend stuff and was handed designs that was impossible to build back then without using hacks like png fix.

are you able to do a project version of this question ? -- what projects could get our foot in the door / how in depth do those projects go ? luv the vidddd

I totally agree with your thought about CSS, don't take so much time to explore and understand the properties and values of CSS. Just to know the most used properties and along with you create a project with the different designs, you will know more about the CSS properties are.

Subscribed!❤ Goin to start learning y'all 🎉 HAHAHA hoping for self-discipline 😝

I agree with what you are saying as a senior desktop support engineer I always use youtube, google, microsoft articles, etc for researching the issues that I face daily. I have been studying the front end for awhile my fear has been not spending enough time on css and html and when I went to javascript I was thinking do I know enough math.. How much math should we know for javascript?

@Chris Sean Hey Sean, thanks again for another video. I'm working towards becoming a remote frontend developer. Question: Do you compile your own documentation on how to do things in web development? I use Obsidian and Notion. Thanks, - Alex

Thanks bro that’s what I needed 😎😎

God bless you bro, your an inspiration. I’m a 22 year old former premed college senior, deciding to drop out and pursue web dev. At the end of the day, it was about time and money. So much more potential in web dev and opportunities, and all can be head in a relatively short period of time if one works hard enough, at least it seems like that. With premed I would’ve had to struggle 7 more years just to get my foot in the door, not to mention no time and location freedom, and let’s not get started on med school debt. Your videos inspired me to make the switch, and I really am grateful for that. My friends said to use The Odin Project where it’s all available for free! Finally, I feel motivated and actually willing to work towards something whereas in premed I was constantly depressed with WAY harder courses trying to become a doctor just to please my parents/ impress them. I really hope this works out for me and others making the switch. Peace ✌️!

you are right man , 100% agree

10:00 The fact that i was able to actually answer these questions as you were saying them boosted my confidence alittle.

After fews years on this path. I finally found the perfect recipe on how to learn and what to learn. With all the ressources out there is now the easiest time.

Thank you for this video 👍🏻

It's reassuring to watch this video and understand nearly everything he's talking about and know that starting to learn 7 months ago wasn't all for nothing. Thank god for free resources online for anything. Including the content Chris puts up for us to watch.

the good thing is that I learned java, c and c# for 2 years now and I am now beginning to learn HTML and CSS and I really hope my JS-Wall will be smooth sailing since I understand programming to a degree where I'll prob progress fast after learning the syntax for JS. I'm just happy to hear that HMTL and CSS in its core are not that hard to grasp because from my first two weeks it looks pretty overwhelming at first but now its actually pretty easy.

Thank you so much for the reassurance.. ! 10:59

This YT vid and the comment sums up what first world web development structure is all about. More or less I got to be a full-stack most of the time.

Thanks for the tips.

You really got me with the "next video part"😂😂

thanks for the video chris.

don't worry Chris Sean Sir , now types also coming in vanilla JS which i am desperately waiting for it

You saved me time, thanks a ton

Awesome, very helpful video.

thanks a lot for the video!

Html is easy but css can be a little technical when it comes to flex box and other styling but you have yo understand the relationship of css and html for getting the right franework and styling the right element.

Totally agree with this video! HTML and CSS are the fast(er) parts. With JS, if you don't have prior experience with a programming language, you need to learn how to PROGRAM. I teach JS and find this takes the average learner (without programming background) 6-12 months. To use a framework (e.g. React), usually towards the latter end of that time spectrum.

As a C# backend developer who has recently made the move to the more front end work, I’m having a blast. I’ve been getting into some animation work using the HTML canvas and it’s so much fun. While Vanilla JS is fun, I’m seeing why TS has become so popular and the problem it solves. I do believe perfectionism is real and I’m often guilty of this. Perfectionism can make you focus on the details rather than getting stuff done. One of the worst software engineers that I have worked with in my 10 year career was in his mid 50’s and he should’ve known more than he did. What made him employable? He gets things done and that’s really what many companies care about the most.

I stopped my music career (university graduate) and left it just to be a personal hobbie (doesn't pay off in my city/country as a teacher). So now at 32, i started an HTML , CSS and JS course. I finished the HTML part, almost about to finish CSS and goin into JS. I'm really loving it, but i do understand that JS would be the brickwall. But im eager to learn more, and to find more courses online. Wish me luck!. (Started a begginer introductory programming course in january , on PSEINT, but left it. Also started some python basics, but left it as well, so i decided to start from scracht)