[rayalez]

Watch this brilliant video, I think the author nailed it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sBzRwzY7G-k

tl;dr:

- Learn Node, Django, or Ruby if you want to do the backend(personally, I HIGHLY recommend Django. It's extremely awesome and is the perfect way to start in my opinion).

- Learn HTML/CSS/JS on the front end, then Sass and jQuery, then, if you want to be an advanced frontend developer - Webpack, React, and Redux.

I think this is the optimal way to go right now.

[clfougner]

Thanks for the great video! Between the three you recommended I ended up going with Django, largely because I've been meaning to get a grasp on Python for a while (I do a fair amount of bioinformatics work in R, and Python should be a useful complement for statistics tasks). Also, the Django project website has great tutorials for beginners to follow!