Learning web development with prior programming experience?

Post date: 2020-10-18 05:46:19

I'm looking into learning full-stack web development as a hobby. There are a ton of resources out there for learning, but they seem geared in a particular direction, which seems less useful to me, because I do programming for my work, but mainly stats/ML stuff in Python and R. Is there a way you think would be good that would allow me to get my hands dirty and learn a lot?

Part of the problem is that compared to the stuff I'm normally involved in, the discourse around frameworks in web stuff seem so ridiculously internecine. People might talk about the relative merits of PyTorch vs. TensorFlow, but I get the impression that it's like that in web development, except more multi-faceted and opinionated. So I don't know if I'm particularly looking for advice about a particular JS framework, but I suppose I'm open to that kind of thing.

Mainly I was wondering if people had an idea about how I could devise a really thorough curriculum for myself. I want to put this learning into practice by making little projects, personal websites, etc.

Because 90% of my work is done in Python, I figured I'd look at Django and Flask, but they don't really do it for me; Django struck me as having too many moving parts; managing database migrations didn't seem like something I wanted to worry about at first. My totally ignorant impression is that it might be better to learn basic stuff using some static site generator.

I'm not sure if I've given enough of an idea of what I'm looking for, but it's kinda hard to know because the information out there is so overwhelming! I'm open to any suggestions you might have!

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