Congratulations! You are at the end of this guide. Not everyone has the discipline to do what you have done and learn what you have learned. Take a quick moment to give yourself a pat on the back.
Your hard work has paid off: You are now a front-end developer.
We have one last challenge for you: Become a good front-end developer. Good developers are good in their own ways, so you must find your own path from here on out.
Where might you start? Here are some ideas:
Write code. Now. You will quickly forget what you have learned here if you do not apply your knowledge. Contribute to a project or write a simple application of your own. Whatever you do, waste no time: Write code.
Learn. You have learned a little bit about a lot of things in this book. Did any of them spark your imagination? Write some code to play around with your favorite thing. Find and read more documentation about it – or an entire book, if there is one. Also, check out the JavaScript Jabber podcast for some thoughtful and entertaining discussion about the latest developments in front-end development (devchat.tv/js-jabber).
Meet people. Local meetups are a good place to meet like-minded developers. Lots of top-notch front-end developers are active on Twitter. And you can attend front-end conferences to meet other developers (maybe even us!).
Explore the open source community. Front-end development is exploding on www.github.com. When you find a cool library, check out other projects from its contributors. Share your own code, too – you never know who will find it useful or interesting. We find the WDRL (Web Development Reading List) mailing list to be a great way to see what is happening in the front-end community (wdrl.info).