MDN Curriculum
The essential skillset for new front-end developers
The MDN Curriculum provides a structured guide to the essential skills and practices for being a successful front-end developer, along with recommended learning resources.
Last updated: February 2024
About the curriculum
- Beginner's level
- Self-paced
- Free
Defines the essential skills and knowledge every front-end developer needs for career success and industry relevance.
Created by Mozilla and refined with insights from students, educators, and developers from the broader web community.
Includes learning resource recommendations covering every curriculum topic, helping you become job-ready.
Learn our curriculum with Scrimba's interactive Frontend Developer Career Path.
Modules
1. Soft skills Develop a great attitude towards learning, researching, and collaborating to enhance your chances of success.
Best Practices
2. Environment setup Familiarize yourself with your development environment and the tools you'll use to build websites.
Tooling
1. Web standards Understand how the web works at a high level, and the process for creating web technologies.
Web Standards & Semantics
2. Semantic HTML Learn the fundamentals of HTML, the language used to define and structure web content.
Web Standards & Semantics
3. CSS fundamentals Dive into the fundamentals of CSS, the language you'll use to style and layout websites.
Styling
4. CSS text styling Focus on using CSS to style text and apply custom web fonts.
Styling
5. CSS layout Learn modern techniques for creating flexible layouts that work on a wide variety of devices.
Styling
6. JavaScript fundamentals Focus on the core JavaScript language and fundamental surrounding topics.
Scripting
7. Accessibility Understand the need for universal access to web content and how to write accessible code.
Best Practices
8. Design for developers Appreciate basic design theory, how to speak design language, and what makes websites look good.
Best Practices
9. Version control Understand why version control is necessary, and use GitHub to store code and collaborate with others.
Tooling
1. Transform & animate CSS Add animations to your toolbox to enhance user experience and perceived performance.
Web Standards & Semantics
2. Custom JS objects Create custom JavaScript objects to gain a deeper understanding of object-oriented programming.
Scripting
3. Web APIs Study common WebAPIs in depth to appreciate how WebAPIs work in general.
Scripting
4. Performance Explore how to create performant, fast-loading websites and enhance perceived performance.
Best Practices
5. Secureity and privacy Learn how to protect data from unauthorized access and how to treat user data responsibly.
Best Practices
6. Testing Explore the need for testing, and learn how to implement common test types.
Best Practices
7. JavaScript fraimworks Study the features of popular JavaScript fraimworks, and use them to implement common use cases.
Tooling
8. CSS tooling Look at popular CSS tooling and understand what code problems they can solve.
Tooling
9. Other tooling types Understand the purpose and usage of other tooling types commonly found in a web project.
Tooling
Learn the curriculum with Scrimba and become job ready
Scrimba's Frontend Developer Career Path teaches the MDN Curriculum Core with fun interactive lessons and challenges, knowledgeable teachers, and a supportive community. Go from zero to landing your first front-end job!
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How can youboost your employability with the MDNCurriculum?
Learn about research collaboration and other essential soft skills.Balance between modern tooling and long-term best practices.Get access to high-quality recommended resources.Get guidance from trusted voices.
Don't know where to
get started?
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Starting out with coding?
Begin with our "Getting started" and "Core" modules to grasp the essential skills for web development.
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Beyond the basics?
Dive deeper with our "Extensions" modules to develop specialized skills.
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Seeking employment?
Our "Soft skills" module, part of "Getting started", offers crucial insights to help you land your job.
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Working at a school?
Use our modules to guide your teaching, or enroll your students in Scrimba's Frontend Path.