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About Learn web development - Learn web development | MDN 1/4 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/About reference web, html, css, javascript, documentation 2026-05-05T05:50:15.977749+00:00 kb-cron

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About Learn web development

MDN Learn web development aims to teach the fundamental skills and knowledge that a front-end web developer should have for employability and longevity in today's web industry. It embodies the values we think the web should have — accessibility, sustainability, usability, performance, and community. We would love educators, developers, and students to use this resource and champion these values in their work, in their teachings, and in the products they build. This content has been created by the MDN community with review and feedback from experts within Mozilla and throughout the wider web community. Thank you for your valuable input; you know who you are!

In this article

Background and motivation

We originally launched the MDN Learn Web Development section in 2016 with the aim of making MDN more accessible to non-experts and helping to take beginning web developers from "beginner to comfortable". The content was pretty successful but, moving forward a few years we noted that the structure was sub-par. Beginners really want a robust pathway they can follow to get the knowledge they need, rather than being expected to figure out what to learn and when. In addition, Mozilla talks to industry professionals every day, and we regularly get feedback on the knowledge gaps in new hires. Hiring managers often observe:

  • Too much of a focus on using frameworks to build web apps quickly, coupled with a lack of understanding of the underlying technologies behind these frameworks. This leads to a lack of problem-solving skills and less long-term employability as tools change.
  • A lack of core best practices such as semantics, accessibility, and responsive design. This results in a lack of user focus, leading to usability limitations.
  • Gaps in the knowledge of how browsers fundamentally work, how they surface information, and the interactivity you get for free. This causes solutions to be overcomplicated and often inaccessible.
  • Limited problem-solving, teamwork, research, and other vital soft skills.

As a result, we created a curriculum to help guide people towards learning a better skill set, making them more employable, and enabling them to build a better, more accessible, more responsible web of tomorrow. We want them to have the best possible chance of success. We launched the MDN Curriculum in early 2024. However, we quickly received feedback that users found it confusing having two learning resources on MDN, with the curriculum/learning pathway in one place and the learning content in another place. as a result, we merged the Curriculum into the learning area in December 2024.

Target audience

Students

This curriculum is useful for several groups of students:

  • Students who want to get a job in the industry, which may involve gaining a related qualification or certification. The curriculum will act as a guide for what they should study.
  • Existing web developers who want to "level up" their skills, making sure their skill set is current and identifying gaps in their knowledge that they should learn more about.
  • Non-front-end web developers who have existing development experience in other areas (for example back-end web developers or platform-specific developers), who wish to get into front-end web development and want a guide to the topics they should learn.