Below are the overall required skills that can help you to land a front-end engineer/developer job in 2021. The list includes basic and some advanced skills in front-end development. Kindly note that this is based on my personal research.

• HTML/CSS
• CSS Preprocessors
• Responsive/Mobile Design
• JavaScript
• Typescript
• jQuery library
• JavaScript Frameworks - (ReactJS/Angular/Vue)
• Front End Frameworks (Bootstrap/Tailwind)
• RESTful Services/APIs, GraphQL
• Basics of the server-side (Node.js, Express, SQL, Database (MongoDB, PostrgreSQL)
• Server-Side rendering framework - (NextJS/NuxtJS)
• Testing/Debugging (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, End to End Tests, Load Tests)
• Git/Version Control
• Accessibility, Cross-Browser Development
• SEO, Web Performance
• Basics of UI/UX Design
• How to build design system, Storybook
• Good understanding of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and CI/CD
• Concepts like Sofware Design, Clean Code, Observability, Manutenabilty

Advantage skills:

• Any one of Content Management System
• Hybrid app development using Ionic React
• Mobile development framework using React Native
• Desktop development framework using Electron
• Data visualization using D3.js

For a more comprehensive roadmap, please refer to roadmap.sh/frontend