I'd have to agree with the original answer too, In terms of recruitment these days, it seems that agents frequently ask for either github urls or somewhere a cl

I'd have to agree with the original answer too, In terms of recruitment these days, it seems that agents frequently ask for either github urls or somewhere a client can see your work as in a portfolio. Best thing to do is find something that interests you and then find relevant tech to learn in order to implement it. You'll find that you pick a lot of things up from others you will work with and the way in which projects get set out etc. If you look to create a portfolio site you can also use that as a side project to pick up new tech. I recently started a personal project to create a personal portfolio site boilerplate that is a single page application that is easy for people to modify and make their own [0]. I made it because I needed to get underway with creating a portfolio site and also because it gave me another opportunity at using new things. Also maybe look at contributing to popular OSS because that will get credit too. That's my two cents anyway, hope it helps. [0] http://jh3y.github.io/pavo http://jh3y.github.io/pavo