A lot of the web stack is analogous to "real" stuff. Practice your database skills by implementing some project using indexedDB [1]. Practice your parallelizat

A lot of the web stack is analogous to "real" stuff. Practice your database skills by implementing some project using indexedDB [1]. Practice your parallelization/efficiency skills by implementing some webworkers [2]. Practice your IAM skills by implementing some oauth2 API for some website [3]. And so forth. Look here [4] for most (if not all?) the web stack things which you could experiment with, many of which will reflect back at "the real thing". I've done this and it introduces concepts in a good way. It also forces a "natural" progression towards backend when you have to deal with stuff like https/self signed certificates, websockets and so forth. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A... [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers... [3]: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2 https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2 [4]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API