# Backend as a service (aka BAAS) tools for front-end developers
##### Data management:
- [Firebase](https://www.firebase.com/index.html) [free to $]
- [Parse](https://www.parse.com/) [free to $]
- [kinvey](http://www.kinvey.com/) [free'ish to $]
- [Back&](https://www.backand.com/) [free to $]
- [Pusher](https://pusher.com/)
##### User management as a service:
- [UserApp](https://www.userapp.io/)
- [hull](http://www.hull.io/)
- [auth0](https://auth0.com)
- Introduction
- What is a front-end developer?
- Part I: The front-end practice
- Front-end jobs titles
- Common web tech employed
- Front-end dev skills
- Front-end devs develop for...
- Front-end on a team
- Generalist myth
- Front-end interview questions
- Front-end job boards
- Front-end salaries
- How FD's are made
- Part II: Learning front-end dev
- Self directed learning
- Learn internet/web
- Learn web browsers
- Learn DNS
- Learn HTTP/networks
- Learn web hosting
- Learn general front-end dev
- Learn UI/interaction design
- Learn HTML & CSS
- Learn SEO
- Learn JavaScript
- Learn DOM, BOM & jQuery
- Learn web fonts
- Learn accessibility
- Learn web/browser API's
- Learn JSON
- Learn front-end app architecture
- Learn Interface/API design
- Learn web dev tools
- Learn command line
- Learn node.js
- Learn module loader
- Learn package managers
- Learn version control
- Learn build & task automation
- Learn site performance optimization
- Learn JS testing
- Learn headless browsers
- Learn offline dev
- Learn security
- Learn multi-thing dev (e.g. RWD)
- Directed learning
- front-end schools, courses, & bootcamps
- Front-end devs to learn from
- Newsletters, news, & podcasts
- Part III: Front-end dev tools
- General front-end dev tools
- SEO tools
- Prototyping & wireframing tools
- Diagramming tools
- HTTP/network tools
- Code editing tools
- Browser tools
- HTML tools
- CSS tools
- DOM tools
- JavaScript tools
- App (desktop, mobile, tablet etc..) tools
- Templating tools
- UI/widget tools
- JSON tools
- Testing framework tools
- Data storage tools
- Module/package loading tools
- Module/package repo. tools
- Web/cloud/static hosting tools
- Project management & code hosting
- Collaboration & communication tools
- CMS hosted/API tools
- BAAS (for front-end devs) tools
- Offline tools
- Security tools
- Tasking (aka build) tools
- Deployment tools
- Site/app monitoring tools
- JS error monitoring tools
- Performance tools