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Chapter

1. Why Portfolios Don’t Get You Hired (00:00:00)

2. The Four-Phase Project Roadmap (00:02:02)

3. Stage One: Ship A Static Site (00:02:32)

4. Tools, Docs, And Learning Sources (00:03:38)

5. Stage Two: Add JS And Local Storage (00:04:26)

6. What Interactivity Really Teaches You (00:06:38)

7. Skip AI While Learning Fundamentals (00:08:03)

8. Stage Three: Rebuild With React And Next (00:08:33)

9. Choosing Frameworks And Resources (00:11:06)

10. Stage Four: Real DBs And Auth (00:12:31)

11. Next.js For Full Stack Basics (00:15:08)

12. Stage Five: Deploy To AWS (00:16:22)

13. Overengineering To Learn Safely (00:19:22)

14. Add AI Features With LLMs (00:20:16)