Checkpoint
Nothing to watch here. Do the work described below, then mark it complete.
Portfolio piece · Competent · Lesson 45 of 98 · about 1 hour
Milestone: cross the hire line
After this you can honestly say you have the evidence of a competent junior engineer: a project you designed, built, shipped and can defend.
Why it matters
Ask an engineer you know, or a community such as a local meetup or an online developer forum, to review the repository and ask you three hard questions about it. If you can answer them, you are ready to apply. If not, the gap they found is your next week's work.