Ethereum 2.0 is going to save us, but we will have to wait before it's ready. In the mean, Ethereum L2 scaling solutions will provide the scalability that we need.
Among these Ethereum L2 scaling solutions, Polygon (formerly Matic) is the leading project. More and more Blockchain apps are being developed on Polygon, and as a Blockchain developer, it's to get up to date.
PRE-REQUISITES (Only need to know the basics)
Basics of NodeJS
Basics of the command line
Ethereum
Solidity
ERC20
Truffle
Required software
Code editor (ex: Visual Studio Code)
A teal (for Windows users, you can use the bash emulation of gitforwindows)
NodeJS
Truffle
Works on Windows 8/10, recent versions of Ubuntu & MacOS
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