Description
Who is the Front End Developer?
It is the Digital Architect who designs and implements web spaces (including sites, portals, web apps, hybrid applications) with interfaces that facilitate navigation and user experience.
Professional Profile
The Front End Developer is a developer specialised in web technologies who is in charge of building the interface of web and cross platform pages and applications. He designs and builds the facades and layouts of the virtual spaces that people visit every day on the web. He collaborates with both the UX Designer and the back-end developer to make the navigation and information display of a web page or web app usable, accessible and functional for the user. He also helps set up and manage tags and meta-information for digital marketing, integrate Artificial Intelligence components and ensure the intrinsic security of web pages. He intervenes in the entire development process, from design to prototyping, from implementation to usability and accessibility testing.
Developer of web-based interfaces (sites, portals, web apps…) for optimising usability and user experience, with Artificial Intelligence integrations and cross-platform application development.
Courses are activated subject to approval by the FVG Region
Activities
The course is structured into progressive modules, designed to develop the essential skills required by companies for a Front End Developer.
- Professionally use IT technologies and systems, to manage operating systems (Windows and Linux), networks, security, virtualisation technologies and containers, i.e. the infrastructures that allow web pages and web apps to be developed and used.
- Designing and implementing web interfaces and applications
- using User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) principles and methods, to make them easily usable for all users (accessible) and suitable for any device (responsive);
- using HTML, CSS and JavaScript languages and related frameworks, to make them secure, fluid and performant.
- integrating interactive components and artificial intelligence, to improve management, data exchange and user experience.
- Optimising pages and apps for search engines and analytics, to make them more indexable and more findable by search engines (SEO, SEM, SEA), while improving a site’s access and success analytics, supporting digital marketing techniques.
- Carrying out testing and deployment, to test and optimise applications, make them available to the end user and manage the subsequent processes of distribution and integration of functionalities, using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) logics.
- Working in teams with Agile methodologies, collaborating with the various development teams (UX, backend and frontend), participating in the management of the entire activity cycle of a front-end project: from the drafting of requirements to design, from the implementation of the solution to presentation to the client.
Technologies and Tools
- Coding: JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Dart
- DB: Postgres/MSSQL
- Web development and frameworks: Html5, CSS, Angular, React, node.js, Blazor
- Design and prototyping: Figma
- Cross-platform development: Flutter
- Project management: Git, Agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum), Trello, Google Suite
Career Opportunities
The Front End Developer is one of the most sought-after job profiles in the ICT market, who can find employment in
- software houses, particularly oriented towards the development of web solutions and web apps for industry, services, public bodies;
- digital, web marketing and web agencies, communication agencies, UI/UX design companies
- software houses specialising in CMS, web and mobile services, e-commerce
- 3D graphics companies, virtual reality, augmented reality
Depending on personal preferences and professional experience, career progression from entry-level positions can lead to roles such as:
- backend developer, fullstack developer
- webapp developer, mobile developer
- UI/UX Designer
- digital and web marketing specialist
- freelance developer