Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects.
However, it is useful to have a rough understanding of common terms and buzzwords, so that you don't seem uninformed when talking to a client or other developers.
Search the Internet for each of the following terms. Only take a couple of minutes for each and don't get into too much detail. Do get a rough idea about the advantages they promise.
Continuous Integration or CI
Single-Page Application or SPA
Progressive Web Application or PWA
Service WorkerSoftware as a Service or SaaS
ServerlessReactSvelteVue.jsNode.jsNoSQLGraphQLMicroservicesMonorepoElasticsearchAWS and EC2
CDNWeb Components or Custom Elements
OAuthSAML2FARedisDocker (
good introduction video 🇩🇪
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)Kubernetes or K8s
Elixir / Phoenix
A/B testingInternet of ThingsBlockchainDevOpsArtificial Intelligence or AI or Machine Learning
Also read Awesome Cold Showers Show archive.org snapshot .
Discuss a few of these technology with your mentor. Focus your discussion on how the respective technology relates to our daily work as a web development consultancy.
Below you can find resources to stay up to date. These will only help you if you can build a habit of consuming it periodically, e.g. a blog feed to read on the train or a podcast you can listen to while shopping or cleaning.
See if one of those work for you:
A good feed reader to subscribe to multiple blogs is Feedly Show archive.org snapshot . It has clients for web and mobile.
You can also use Blogtrottr Show archive.org snapshot to receive feeds via email (e.g. as a daily digest).
You can create a Twitter account Show archive.org snapshot just to follow accounts, you don't need to post.
A good player to subscribe to multiple podcasts is Pocket Casts Show archive.org snapshot . It has free clients for Android and iOS. An 1€/month subscription gives you a web player.