Frontend intern applications benefit from a focused portfolio. The gap between "finished a course" and "ready to be hired" is filled with shipped, breakable, real things.

A portfolio that actually helps

  • One polished app (your best work) rather than five tutorials
  • One experiment that connects to a chain: read-only is fine — a token-gated page, a wallet balance widget
  • A short write-up for each: what it does, what was hard, what you would change

Skills that separate candidates

  • TypeScript fundamentals beyond annotations: unions, narrowing, generics
  • Reading documentation instead of copying Stack Exchange answers
  • Accessibility basics: keyboard paths, labels, contrast

How to apply

Reference the Merklane Intern/Junior section daily, apply within 48 hours of a listing appearing, and attach the write-up — evaluators read those first.