A good follow up to Rebecca Murphy’s 2012 recommendations for baseline skills for front-end web developers. It’s always tough to pin down what the essential skills of the field are or should be as it seems like acquiring new knowledge on a daily bases is a job requirement for front-end web developers.
The main point I took away from this is that on top of understanding JavaScript, we should all be using the tools we have available to us (build tools, versioning, dependency management, the shell, etc) and know how to use them well to in order to automate repetitive tasks, eliminate errors, and ultimately be more productive.