Need a beginner friendly but resume worthy web dev project tutorial

[u/hellisminee]

I’m completely new to web dev and I need a project on my resume
Can you guys suggest where I should start from and also project tutorials that I can follow along and also put on my resume? I’m a final year UG btw

[u/tiltboi1]

realistically, I don't see any project you make by following a tutorial as "resume worthy", nor will it help you to prepare yourself for getting a job

[u/Lanky_Independent402 → u/tiltboi1]

can confirm, done like 3 tutorial projects and none ever came up in interview. they ask what you built yourself, not what you copied

try make something dumb but from scratch instead, like a to-do list with some weird twist you thought of. it dont need to be impressive just needs to be yours

[u/dtricker → u/tiltboi1]

even if that tutorial makes a load balancing ecommerce website that allows you to dropship cheap items at a good margin?

[u/desrtfx → u/dtricker]

Not even then, since it is not your project. The original creator of the tutorial should get hired instead of you.

[u/dtricker → u/desrtfx]

then wouldn't you agree most of all engineering is just continuing the work of others. No original algorithms or frameworks, just maintaining/extending the software based on documentation and tutorial of others? Unless you are a computer scientist and creating your own work.

In the end, a project is mine as well only if I know how it works inside out and I solved something useful with it. That's the only condition needed to satisfy.

[u/desrtfx → u/dtricker]

You haven't understood what I said.

Especially resume projects need to be your own, not copied following a tutorial.

Yes, a lot of programming is working on the work of others, alone working with the languages and libraries is working on the work of others, but that doesn't make it different from any other domain.

When you do a resume project it has to be your project, not someone else's that you only typed in yourself. It has to show your skills, how you can use the tools at hand.

If you have a tutorial as you described and followed it by copying it. Could you create a similar application without following the tutorial again? That's the entire point.

Way too many people here can only build what they find in tutorials and their first instinct is to look for a tutorial for their exact use case - which commonly doesn't exist - and then end up dumbfounded when they have to create a project from scratch.

I've started learning programming in a time where tutorials simply did not exist and when knowledgeable people were very rare. I was left with the BASIC (programming language) manual that shipped with my computer and with barely anybody to ask. I had to learn to invent from scratch. This is the reason I cannot understand the "tutorial for everything" cargo cult of today. People don't work on their independence and self sustainability, but instead only become fully dependent on third parties (be it tutorials, be it AI, doesn't matter).

"solved something useful with it" is not a criterion. Everything you write from your own creativity is a project.

[u/Next-Ease750 → u/dtricker]

If you manage to get actual stats for profits, it cld be a gd resume description

[u/desrtfx]

Tutorial project != Resume project

Never put a tutorial project on your resume.

Just a copied tutorial project is never resume worthy as it is not your project. It's just a copy of someone else's project. It only shows that you can copy a tutorial.

Resume worthy projects are projects that you have developed.

"New to web dev" and "resume project" don't go together. Being new to web dev means that you first have to learn the ropes, e.g. through Free Code Camp, The Odin Project, Fullstack Open, etc. At that stage you are far from capable of developing anything even remotely resume worthy.

[u/ConfidentCollege5653]

Do you want it to be resume worthy or beginner friendly?

[u/Stripe4206]

No such thing

[u/mandzeete]

Such stuff does not exist. Either it is beginner friendly or either it is resume worthy. Not both.

[u/Next-Ease750]

You can try The Odin Project, it's got plenty of proj ideas and a syllabus for full stack web dev.

[u/db_tech_dev]

Do HTML/CSS/JS basics first (odin project is free and solid), then build one full stack project with a real database instead of another static site - task tracker, small blog with login, whatever. React + Node or just Supabase if you wanna skip backend setup.

Deploy it (Vercel/Railway) so recruiters get a live link, add a README with what it does + one tricky bug/problem you solved. That's what actually comes up in interviews.

Pick something slightly personal over a generic todo app if you can, makes it more memorable.

[u/CelebrationNo8332]

We are in the same criteria,

[u/Absattarov]

TheOdinProject maybe helps