# apptension/developer-handbook

An opinionated guide on how to become a professional Web/Mobile App Developer.

Repository: https://github.com/apptension/developer-handbook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/developer-handbook
Homepage: https://apptension.com
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: learning-python, handbook, learn-to-code, guidelines, learning-js, developer-documentation, career-guide, guidebook, career-plan, career-development, career-path, javascript, react, css, js, aws, python, sql, databases
Last push: 2024-02-16T13:24:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2245, "days_push": 929, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5961, forks 634 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:33.763915+00:00)

## What it is
An opinionated, MIT-licensed handbook by Apptension covering how to become a professional Web/Mobile App Developer. It documents the company's technical stack, recommended learning topics, and onboarding checklists for frontend, backend, and mobile developers.

## Use cases
- learn how to become a web developer
- find a career roadmap for frontend development
- prepare for a developer job interview
- plan what technologies to learn as a junior developer
- onboard new developers onto a web team
- compare an opinionated production tech stack for React and Python

## When to choose
- you want an opinionated, curated learning path for web or mobile development
- you need a checklist of skills expected at different seniority levels
- you want to align a team's technical documentation and onboarding

## When to avoid
- you need exhaustive, vendor-neutral coverage of every technology
- you want interactive tutorials or exercises rather than reference guides
- you need deep documentation of a single specific framework

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, education, frontend, mobile-development, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: career-guide, handbook, onboarding, learning-path, javascript, react, python, aws, sql, web-server

## Member repositories
- apptension/developer-handbook (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.763915+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:50:24.243265+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/apptension/developer-handbook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:33.763915+00:00, sha 21c91792632f)
  - homepage: https://apptension.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:23.640538+00:00, sha 97f0f1916001)
  - site_page: https://apptension.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:23.650529+00:00, sha 93a62e9faf7e)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/developer-handbook (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:23.655068+00:00, sha f619689d592c)
  - site_page: https://apptension.com/services/generative-ai-solutions (fetched 2026-08-29T08:46:23.652703+00:00, sha 88b14ec91d3b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.