What To Learn In 2021
#1 Headless WordPress Frameworks
Frontity
Gatsby
NextJS
- Specifically for WordPress
- SSR out of the box among many other features
- Very opinionated
- Amazing support for WordPress
- Mild learning curve
- Huge ecosystem of plugins
- SSR and SSG
- Low learning curve
- Less opinionated
#2 Unit Testing Frameworks
- Take better care of my sites
- Make it easier and safer to incorporate new developers
- Make sure I'm pushing good code
#3 Page Builders!?
Why Page Builders?
- Easy freelance!
- Lots of companies use them
- ...Maybe even Gutenberg
#4 AWS
Why AWS?
- So much to take advantage of
- Very transferrable skill
- Can be cheap
#5 Node.js
Why Node.js
- Create robust CLIs
- Super easy API spinups
- Very transferrable knowledge
#6 Docker
Why Docker?
- Extremely portable
- Customizable top to bottom
- Transferrable skill
What To Learn In 2021
By Alex Young
