Web Development
Web development is building things people use in a browser. Websites, web applications, dashboards, tools. If it runs in a browser, a web developer built it. The work spans visual design, user interaction, server-side logic, databases, deployment, and performance.
Web development moves fast. Frameworks evolve, tools change, best practices shift. What stays constant is the process: understand what needs building, design it, build it, verify it works, ship it, and watch how it performs in the real world.
The track
Projects span from a simple static site to a complex full-stack application. You'll direct AI to build websites and web applications for fictional clients, then verify the output, catch the mistakes, and make the design decisions that shape whether the result actually serves the people who use it.
The skill you're building isn't writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from memory. It's directing AI to build web applications and verifying the result: knowing what to ask for, what quality looks like, and when AI's output isn't good enough.
Before you start
- Read the Introduction: what the field is, how the work flows, what tools you'll use
- Complete the Platform Setup: accounts, terminal, Claude Code, Git (same for all tracks)
- Complete the Web Dev Setup: Node.js, npm, and a hands-on demo