God damnit. I am so annoyed.

I dreamed up a website last year. I have #api calls to supply php with the data for a #mysql DB so I can #ETL. It's only for ~5 friends and I. But I'm NOT a web dev. So things like "making it pretty" were WAY beyond my skill level of writing bad backend code.

So a friend suggested I look at #FlutterFlow. It looks great but it's deeply overwhelming trying to figure out the "right" way to do things. On top of that, it wants to use #firebase for everything. This solves things like easy Google auth but I have 20 years of #relational db knowledge and the site I'm building is leaning on deeply relational sets of data (in the #schema I crafted). I have zero knowledge about how to push all my data into #nosql and do what I want.

So I spent today, dumping a few tables to csv, editing and pushing data into firebase and trying to FF to what I do want. Now I can't even figure out how to get firebase to pull and iterate through the items in the table (collection? Document?). Let alone how to display elements, filter, let folks drag and drop, save and recall stored lists, etc.

I am so so so frustrated. I can pseudo-code all the stuff I need but because I'm having to change all the tech, I can't even pull and sort a list of items with cards. Let alone how to handle very relational data on a non-relational system.

I'm not THAT stupid, why is this so fucking difficult?! Never mind how slow #flutterflow is (on a supported browser even).

Just. Ugh.