MDN Curriculum

HTML: Markup language
CSS: Styling language
JavaScript: Scripting language
Web APIs: Programming interfaces
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The MDN Curriculum provides a structured summary of the essential skills and practices for being a successful front-end developer. The Learn web development Core modules are based on this structure, as well as partner courses such as the Scrimba Frontend developer career path
Last updated: October 2025
Defines the essential skills and knowledge every front-end developer needs for career success and industry relevance.
Created by Mozilla and refined with insights from students, educators, and developers from the broader web community.
Includes learning resource recommendations covering every curriculum topic, helping you become job-ready.
Learn our curriculum with Scrimba's interactive Frontend Developer Career Path .
Develop a great attitude towards learning, researching, and collaborating to enhance your chances of success.
Familiarize yourself with your development environment and the tools you'll use to build websites.
Understand how the web works at a high level, and the process for creating web technologies.
Web Standards & Semantics
Learn the fundamentals of HTML, the language used to define and structure web content.
Web Standards & Semantics
Dive into the fundamentals of CSS, the language you'll use to style and layout websites.
Focus on using CSS to style text and apply custom web fonts.
Learn modern techniques for creating flexible layouts that work on a wide variety of devices.
Focus on the core JavaScript language and fundamental surrounding topics.
Understand the need for universal access to web content and how to write accessible code.
Appreciate basic design theory, how to speak design language, and what makes websites look good.
Understand why version control is necessary, and use GitHub to store code and collaborate with others.
Add animations to your toolbox to enhance user experience and perceived performance.
Web Standards & Semantics
Create custom JavaScript objects to gain a deeper understanding of object-oriented programming.
Study common WebAPIs in depth to appreciate how WebAPIs work in general.
Explore how to create performant, fast-loading websites and enhance perceived performance.
Learn how to protect data from unauthorized access and how to treat user data responsibly.
Explore the need for testing, and learn how to implement common test types.
Study the features of popular JavaScript frameworks, and use them to implement common use cases.
Look at popular CSS tooling and understand what code problems they can solve.
Understand the purpose and usage of other tooling types commonly found in a web project.
Scrimba's Frontend Developer Career Path teaches the MDN Curriculum Core with fun interactive lessons and challenges, knowledgeable teachers, and a supportive community. Go from zero to landing your first front-end job!
How can you boost your employability with the MDN Curriculum?
Learn about research collaboration and other essential soft skills. Balance between modern tooling and long-term best practices. Get access to high-quality recommended resources. Get guidance from trusted voices.
Begin with our "Getting started" and "Core" modules to grasp the essential skills for web development.
Dive deeper with our "Extensions" modules to develop specialized skills.