Developer certifications by Mozilla

[AndyBlack101]

Recently, I was trying to search for a good frontend certification. Note: I mean certification, not course; certifications similar to ones the Linux Foundation and the OpenJS foundation provide respectively.

It took a while before I landed on a couple of certifications by freeCodeCamp and another to be released, by OpenEDG which seemed to be along the lines of what I had in mind.

Considering how Mozilla is such a well-established name in the community, certifications from the Mozilla Foundation would also be widely recognised. Mozilla already provides great documentation for web developers in the form of MDN. Having certifications for frontend and backend devs (not limited to just these but you get the point), would also be a monetary opportunity.

I think this will attract a lot of new and existing web devs to test and prove their skills while also spreading Mozilla's reach and maybe even making some money on the side.

[Jon]

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[heaversm]

This is a cool idea. I got a "green software practitioner" certification via the Linux Foundation, which was a cool added incentive to familiarize with this space. Don't see why Mozilla couldn't participate in this space as well. Maybe we already are? I remember talking to a veteran Mozilla employee about how Mozilla used to send swag to its Bugzilla contributors, and I know we elevate roles and responsibilities to frequent contributors there. I'll have a look at what else is happening in this space and try to promote this idea internally.

[Honza]

Thank you the trust and suggestion!

We're already considering this path and working on a research to try understand what would be most helpful to web devs.

Honza

[AndyBlack101]

So glad to hear that this is already being considered.

Purely from a certification standpoint, as a web developer I would find it extremely helpful if there was a cert provided by you that I have good technical knowledge about frontend and/or backend without a doubt i.e. the certification needs to be challenging enough for me so that, once I achieve it, recruiters know that I understand my domain well.

[eharvey71]

Just learned today that there will be a certification coming in 2024, from VueSchool: https://certificates.dev/
I'm enrolled in their current Vue3 certification track for a Senior Fullstack dev and it's very challenging. If they are this thorough with Vue, I'm hoping they will offer the same for vanilla JS!