Introduction
Learning by hands-on code from day 1 is one of the coolest methods of getting into coding, each time you move a small step, let be fixing a bug or adding a new feature, you can feel that dopamine boost!
You might get stuck quickly by not knowing how to build something or move forward but that is the whole point of coding, when you're blocked, you need to find a way to implement and deliver features, read documentation, learn how to learn and how to google things, but each time you'll be a little better…
…and the moment you complete a whole project is AMAZING! +1 to your portfolio, learning new skills and a feeling of accomplishment are unique.
Let me present 10 more projects you can build to improve your coding skills x10!
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Let's dive into the projects! 🤿
1. Pokedex
Catch them all! Ah, this one is bringing back a lot of memories, let's create your own Pokémon dictionary with all the species!
You will learn more about Pokémons, obviously… and more about API integration with infinite loading, dynamic rendering and RWD, interactive search panel, sorting, filtering and a detailed view with data handling!
Cards
- API Configuration
- UI Rendering
- Search Panel
- Sorting Functionality
- Filters
- Pokémons Details
How to create tutorials
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2. Music Player
An awesome way to recreate your favorite music player and learn about audio controls in HTML (and CSS for styling).
You will learn more about UI controls, data handling, event handling, audio playback, and a cool UX/UI Design.
Cards
- UI Logic
- Play Button
- Pause Button
- Replay Button
- Loop Button
- Time Slider
- Next Button
- Previous Button
- Mute Button
- Unmute Button
- Sound Level Slider
How to create tutorials
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3. Code Editor
Recreate the main functionality of websites like JSFiddle or CodePen. 🤩
You will learn about JavaScript interactivity, CSS Flexibility (flexbox/grid layout), 3rd party library integration, e.g. CodeMirror, and some local storage to persist the code between user sessions.
Cards
- Navigation Bar
- Code Area
- Preview of Code
- Resizing Vertical Bar
- Change View Button
- Code Editor Library
- Responsive Web Design
- Additional Cases
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
4. Quiz App
Create a fun quiz app with 10 randomly generated questions from different categories to easily play and test your knowledge.
You will learn about API Integration (Open Trivia DB API), interactive UI Development, state management to transition between questions and results page, as well as Responsive Design (RWD).
Cards
- API Configuration
- Home Page
- Quiz Generation
- Questions Logic
- Last Question
- Results Bar
- Results Answers
- Sticky Navigation
- Tablet Design
- Mobile Design
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
5. Find Movies
Create your app for quickly previewing featured Movies and TV Series, search your favorite movies, and see the details page of it!
You will learn to fetch data from external APIs, dynamic search techniques with debouncing, modern UX/UI design, and infinite scrolling with data pagination.
Cards
- API Configuration
- Search Bar
- Featured Today Section
- Premieres and Announcements Section
- Details Page
- Skeleton Animation
- Error Handling
- Recent Searches
- Skeleton Animation
- Error Handling
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
6. Tic Tac Toe
One of the most classic games ever, always fun to work a little bit with game logic.
You will learn a bit more about interactive, modern Frontend development, game logic implementation, RWD, modals, event handling with state management, and basic routing.
Cards
- Home Page
- Pick Player
- Game Board
- Gameplay
- Game End
- Modals
- Tablet Design
- Mobile Design
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
7. Todo App
Another classic, todo app style, if you haven't created one yet, it might be a good time now!
You will learn interactive UI Design with dynamic JavaScript content management, CSS and theming, and event handling with state management for operations like creating a todo, marking it as completed, or deleting it.
Cards
- UI Container
- Add Todo
- Delete Todo
- Mark as Completed
- Light Mode Toggle
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
8. Blog
One of the best projects to build as it's a dynamic content that often requires a CMS which is one of the common requests from your future clients to build! (e.g. dynamic content web store website, etc.)
You will learn a lot about page navigation with different routers, SEO optimisation if built e.g. in NextJS as well as dive into various CMS and how to connect it all between Frontend and API. Also RWD is included in this one.
Cards
- Content Strategy
- Basic Navigation
- Hero Section
- Blog Posts Section
- About Section
- Global Footer
- Posts Page
- Dynamic Search
- Blog Post Page
- Mobile Design
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
9. Dashboard
Visualisation of different data in charts, tables is a crucial skill that Developers should have these days and especially working with different component & charts libraries.
You will learn how to build a sidebar with menu items as well as the whole navigation layout starting from top nav and content with grid system. On top of that, you could connect a mock API data to incorporate loading and error states handling.
Cards
- Data Management
- Sidebar
- Top Navigation
- Numbers Cards
- Sales Overview Chart
- Sales Region Chart
- Registered Users Chart
- Integration List
- Light Dark Mode
How to create tutorials
Additional resources
10. Character Generator
Avatar creator with state management is a very common problem, data structure, loading from local storage, changing it in real-time. It's a junior level project but still will be a fun one to complete!
Learn how to manage state, optimise images/work with SVG's and implement features like random character creation and downloading an image from the canvas.
Cards
- UI Container
- Character Customisation
- Random Selection
- Save Character
- Persist Character
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Summary
And that's it! There's a ton to learn from these projects each of them being unique and a nice addition to your portfolio.
It's been my goal for a long time to spread a project-based learning approach through the community and have BigDevSoon up and running, an app we've been working on for the last 2 years. It's a great achievement for us.
Keep codin' BIG! 🙇♂️