Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWhat I find most interesting is that the majority of these technologies did not exist or were in their infancy ~7 years ago when I first moved to Silicon Valley. Looking at this chart must be much more intimidating for a young developer today. I remember a decade ago when a front-end developer meant you handled HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Apache/PHP/MySQL. Today, there are 15 forks in the road all leading to different paths as a front-end developer.
I was convinced for a while there as I scrolled down that this was a joke. "Good parody!" I thought to myself. Then I realized to my horror this is actually serious. As a web developer since 1997, currently working in both the Rails & JAMstack spaces, I can assure any and all beginners out there you don't need to know anything about at least 50% of this stuff, probably closer to 70%. I also deeply resent the notion that…
Nice. - https://github.com/fkling/JSNetworkX would be a cool way to build interactive schema:Thing/CreativeWork curriculum graph visualizations (and BFS/DFS traversal) - #WebSec: https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/web-development#websec - Web Development Checklist: https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/web-development#web-develo... -- http://webdevchecklist.com/ - | Web Frameworks (GitHub Sphinx wiki (./Makefile)): https://westurner.org/wiki/webframeworks (| Wikipedia, | Homepage, Source, Docs,)
This would be much more friendly and "2019-ish" if all the text in those diagrams were searchable.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 555
- Total comments
- 240
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-15 | Roadmap to becoming a Developer in 2017 | kamranahmed_se | 5 | 0 |
| 2017-03-16 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017 | jonbaer | 6 | 0 |
| 2017-03-17 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017 | tifa2up | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-03-20 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017 | allenleein | 6 | 0 |
| 2017-03-21 | Developer Roadmap | matteodepalo | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-03-22 | Web Developer Roadmap in 2017 | Dangeranger | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-03-24 | Developer Roadmap | bharadhwajcn | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-03-26 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017 | miguelarauj1o | 4 | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2017First breakout · Best thread | mpweiher | 261 | 108 |
| 2019-01-02 | Roadmap to becoming a Web Developer in 2019 | rchaudhary | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-01-10 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2019Latest 20+ point return | nkjoep | 255 | 130 |
| 2021-12-09 | Roadmap to becoming a web developer in 2021 | axiomdata316 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-12-12 | Kimrio357 Gmail.com | kimrio | 1 | 0 |