We live in fascinating times now. Without the Internet that becomes impossible to work, study or even grow professionally. Every organization, firm, or company has to be in the World Wide Web and the best option for that is to create a website or an application.
Without a website consider your business to be lost somewhere in the business jungles. Nobody will be able to find you! So, now, every business, especially new and young should create a website, at least, in order to increase the effectiveness and the number of opportunities and chances to reach some success either financial or professional.
But when you have just started your business and have not a single idea of where to start from with your website or application you read just the right article.
I will explain. For any program, website or the app development you need a developer. Yep, this nerdy man who sits in the front of the monitor and has no idea how a real girl looks like. I’m joking, for sure. They are cool guys but let’s get to the topic more precisely.
For example, you need to create a website. In this case you save just a pair of options on how to make it. You can hire a fullstack developer and he or she can write and create a proper and high quality website or an app for you. But this is a pretty rare occasion. The best option for you is to hire two specialists at once: a back-end developer and a front-end developer.
Today we will talk about the second specialist more precisely.
So, who is a front-end developer and how to hire the best front-end developer for your project? Let’s figure it out.
Who Is A Front-end Developer?
Open any website. Take a look attentively. What do you see? Menus, slides, fonts? Overall design and colors? Architecture? Yep, that’s right, those are the things which you will see for sure. Additionally, some other features and things
UI or the user interface is the realm of the front-end development, it is exactly the thing where any end user interacts.
Any front-end developer combines several main features: strong and solid knowledge of different development technologies and languages, and for sure the art of design.
Everything you see on any website or an app is the work of some dedicated front-end developer.
I find it won’t be extra to take a short look on other developers such as full stack and back-end.
A full stack developer is considered to be the cross expert. What does it mean? Full stack developer knows all the processes from top to the bottom and this expert has either deep knowledge and skills in the front-end or in the back-end.
Back-end developers are the builders. They are those people that create and build the “box”, the “house”, the frame itself and the fundament for a front-end developer’s work.
Back-end developer provides a stable basis for other specialists and like a real ninja stays in the shadows.
So, I think it’s time to move to the main point of this article – how to hire the best front-end developer for your project.
Finding And Hiring The Best Front-end Developer For Your Project
Toptal
First of all, let’s look at the basic methods as freelance working platforms. One of the best among them is Toptal. Be sure that there you will find the top specialist, because such a platform as Toptal has a number of severe and strict requirements to take a place as a freelancer and start to work. The future freelancer has to pass different tests and be checked by the platform. That ensures that you will get a really great specialist and the master of his or her branch.
Upwork
The next platform worth mentioning is Upwork. Here, with the help of filters and reputation or success scores you can choose the best coworker for your project. It is not as strict as Toptal but still you can find a real diamond just here and for a good price.
We Work Remotely
This is another stable and good platform with the specialists from all the existing branches around the world. Here you can see the countries where a candidate lives, his or her reputation and a price for work.
It would be a sin not to mention this famous site for job seekers and finders. A lot of jobs and specialists were found here, and to be honest, there nothing to say about it. You know everything about this site already. So, just go ahead and find a front-end developer of your dream!
Social Networks Like Facebook And Reddit
Indeed, social networking plays a huge role now in any sphere of work, especially it has become a powerful tool for advertising, marketing and HR. As for me, Facebook is no longer a social network with different types of entertainment, it has become along with Instagram a mighty tool for finding a top front-end developer, because you can just share something, create a post and make a story, and wuolah some good developer has noticed you and sends his or her CV to you. Reddit is also rather handy here, due to the great amount of programming communities you can just write a post and get with some front-end dev in contact.
Blogs And Personal Pages
Maybe, you have your own blog or a personal page where you post your articles or some interesting materials. There you can search for good front-end developers if they are your target auditory.
Another way is to read different blogs and pages about programming and find those “diamonds” that you would want to add to your collection.
Summits And Meetings
At various big events like Web Summit you can create a big network just for several days, find dozens of great developers and recruit them to join your team. The same thing works for meetings. Who knows but maybe this small talk will lead to a new cooperation.
Friends And Close Ones
That isn’t surprisingly when somebody from your social circle will show or recommend you to somebody, especially when your friend or relatives are also strongly bonded with the world of IT.
Conclusion
As you can see, there is a great number of variants for hiring the best front-end developer for your project. The main thing, don’t forget about reading CV properly and about tests and interviews. These things you should prepare beforehand and after finding a candidate and interviewing him or her you can finally choose if you want to hire this specialist or not. Follow your instincts and think logically and good results won’t make you wait for long. Take care and go ahead!