Project Ideas for Web Developers
Cool projects to boost your awesome resume
What’s a better way to showcase your skills than building some projects that are very functional and looks cool. Once you have learned basics of coding, your next thought will be “What should I build?” and for some people they don’t have any ideas on what to build except a to-do app and a calculator.
Let’s look at some cool ideas for your next project. These will help you build new skills and get and understanding on how things are built in the industry. The projects may seem overwhelming at first, but you don’t have to build the entire thing if you don’t have enough expertise. You can try building something similar with less complexity, but it must be a little challenging for you because challenging projects helps you grow as a developer.
1. Quiz Game
Difficulty: Beginner
A Quiz game is an easy project that you can build to just learn some basic logic. The important thing you should focus on is, to make a great look and feel to your website, so that the project will look much cooler and it will be awesome to showcase in your resume.
You need only basic front-end skills to build this project. The idea is that you show a question and a multiple choices for answer, If people click an option it should update the score based on their answer and move to next question. At the end you will display the total score. You should add something creative to this project and it will make it better. You can play around with transitions, animations, interactions etc…
2. Recipe Fetcher
Difficulty: Beginner
A Recipe fetcher is an amazing project, as we will be using an API to fetch data based on the the input of the user. It will give you knowledge on how APIs work and how you can integrate it with the front-end.
Front end skills are only needed, you will be doing most of the work in JavaScript. The idea is get an API endpoint which will give you recipes, there are a lot of free ones out there, and you can build a website with an input box and when a user enters some ingredients and click on search, you will fetch data from API and display it nicely. Integrate some interactions and cool style to the website and try to display the result by appending them to the site using JavaScript.
3. Ping Pong Game
Difficulty: Beginner
Ping Pong is both fun to play and interesting to build. Building a small game will give you more knowledge about the language. As there are a lot of things and structure that goes into a game. Figuring out logic of the game can help you improve your problem solving skills.
It is a beginner friendly project. You can use HTML canvas and draw objects using JavaScript. 2 players can be controlled using keyboard, you can use W and S keys for first player and Arrow keys for second player as controls (Up and Down). Try to make it smooth and fast. You should make your logic efficient to provide a smooth game play.
4. Authentication System
Difficulty: Intermediate
An Authentication System is one of the coolest and most useful project that you can build, learning how to build an authentication system is worth it as it is used in almost every application.
Front end and back end skills are needed for this project. It isn’t a very complex project. You can build a login page and a signup page where users can enter their details. If they are first time users they must sign up and their data should be stored in a database. They can login with that data, you can validate it to determine whether they should be allowed to login or not. Create a design for both login and sign up pages, you can also implement an account page which displays the user information. Play around with it and you can build stuff on top of it to make a fully fledged website application.
5. E-Commerce Application
Difficulty: Intermediate
An E-commerce application will help you to gain knowledge on all parts of development like database design and data management, authentication, building APIs, managing state of application, managing different users etc…
Front end and Back end skills are needed for making this application. Make a authentication system for users to login and signup. There should be products listed and you will be able to add them to cart. All the data will be stored in database, so it can be accessed from any device. You should be able to go to cart and make a checkout. You can try connecting Stripe with your application to manage payments etc…
These are some cool projects that will help you learn the concepts faster and you can showcase them on your resume. If you liked the projects, make sure to share to a friend who may need it. Do you have any more interesting project ideas ? Drop them in comments below !
Thanks for reading.
